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.