Pleasure doing business with you...

Looks like the Libby has gotten a lot of highway miles in this summer, and we are at the end of barrel #3. A total of 165 gallons of biodiesel! Consider this: that's about $511 of dino diesel we did NOT purchase this year. Where does that money go that you are spending at the pump? Well, some is taxes, and some goes to the people locally distributing and selling the fuel, but it is estimated that 20% of every petrol-dollar, or $102 of that $511, goes out of the country to the mideast to pay for the oil imported to meet our growing need for fuel. We import over 80% of all our oil used. And guess who those mideast oil guys are? And what do they fund with this money? $102 buys you a lot of explosives and bullets on the streets of Bagdad, Iran, or Gaza. Osama Bin Laden and his family own one of the largest oil companies in the mid-east, guess what they do with their money? Pick you least favorite nation...and then realize tha YOU are giving them money every day.

I'd rather that $102 go toward a U.S. farmer growing crops somewhere in this country. Perhaps my money is paying for some farmer's family lunch right now. Have a beer on me, guys. Pleasure doing business with you.

Jealous of the Jetta

So says my wife; "Since you got the Jetta, its like you don't care about the Jeep anymore. You'll hurt its feelings." Well, now, you see its complicated. Jeep, you'll always be my first Bio-vehicle and that means a lot. Its just that, well, the Jetta needs my attention right now. Its not like I'm just running to some young thing, the Jetta's older by years. But Jetta gets 45-50 mpg and I drive it everyday, and now that it is slowly getting up to speed on biodiesel, it is going to need some time and attention. You're mature enough to understand that, right? Don't be mad at the Jetta's sleek lines and snappy acceleration...it will NEVER have the family capacity that you have. Plus, who is my favorite off-road vehicle every made? Who can haul 5,000lbs without batting an eyelash?

What, well yes I did have my hand under the hood. But that was strictly mechanical. You know, a maintenance thing? And those receipts from the auto store? Just a little something...just replacement parts. Like I never buy YOU stuff?

Don't be that way. C'mon, lets go for a drive and flip-off the gas stations. We'll both feel better.