Keystone XL dies…

Well….an interesting thing happened over the past week that went mostly unnoticed by everyone…but, I read a little article that didn’t really surprise me given the rapidly changing energy market. You know how the idiot trump has been pushing for more and more fossil fuel use…lying to the people in coal country that he will bring coal jobs back and approving the building of the Keystone XL pipeline that would move tar sands oil through the US to be exported for use in the rest of the world. Just the other day, though, the proposed builders of the pipeline, Trans Canada, said that due to the changes happening to the energy market around the world, where the sharply lowering price of solar, wind and natural gas has made the tar sands oil uneconomical, will probably prevent them from building the pipeline. This is the problem with confusing economics with ideology, trump and his minions are mired in the past…well…maybe not mired in the past but mired in the kleptocracy where the oil and coal companies pushed the cost of their pollution off on the taxpayers while they screwed everyone…and they are setting the US up to be a second class energy country by ceding leadership of new energy technologies to China and the rest of the world while we continue to burn and pollute. But, with this decision by Trans Canada, we can see that economics can trump the idiot and his minions…they can’t stop solar or wind…no company is going to pay more for their electricity just to keep trump and the oil companies happy…and there is not a damn thing the idiot can do about it…Impeach….

August 1st

Well…it was a day yesterday but that’s all I’ll say about it….my back was hurting all day and it is starting again today….thought I’d had it figured out but I guess not….slept okay last night but tossed and turned as always…would just like one night of the sleep that I remember…with that, I’m feeling a little slow today….but I’m hoping the coffee will help in a while….didn’t get much done yesterday but today I’ll have to do better….have to find some storage….and get some cleaning done….think I need to work on the bike, too, but will wait until thurs for that when I take a day off the bike for the rain…at least I’m hoping it rains…I do need a rest day to let the pain get out of my legs…oh, I do need to adjust the seat on the bike, too…I think it’s moved some and that may be making me uncomfortable on it…more later….