Today I filled up and paid $3.26. Same Exxon station, same gas. On July 28th as I noted here, I paid $3.18. The wholesale cost of oil has not changed since then. So is this how Exxon Mobil achieves its record profits? By simply upping the price to whatever the market will bear?

This article in the NY Times is the best explanation of the current state of wave and tide power I’ve seen. Given that the UK believes that 18% of its power needs will come from wave power, this is not an insignificant or experimental effort.

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I try to avoid the ‘did we cause it?’ argument about global warming because there is an underlying religious context to the side of the argument that says: No way we caused it. Essentially, if the Christian Right admits that we screwed up the planet by burning too many fossil fuels then their belief in the supremacy of man will be threatened.

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Pierced.
Orlando, January 1999.
Warm moist green heat dawn. A breeze carries the scent of oleander and chlorine from the hotel pool and I can feel the light rising from behind the buildings on the resort’s campus. I am sitting on a concrete front step surrounded by tropical plants covered in heavy dew, fragrant lawns and winding crushed stone pathways. I’m waiting for a car to take me away and I am tired beyond tired; I wear my weariness like a shroud, a shroud that shrouds not only my movements but my entire outlook.
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