Pet Peave Punishment

My number one pet peeve is lying.  I really detest when someone lies to me especially over something that is not important.  I think that a good punishment for those compulsive liars out there would be if they got caught they would need to wear a lie detector that would shock them when ever they decided to lie again.  This might show those liars the pain of their ways.

Oil Addiction

What is it going to take to make a change in the current dependency on oil in this country?  Considering the cost of oil and the ecological problems that have occurred with the production of oil we need a change.  The past catastrophic event of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a huge eye opener for a lot of Americans to see the impact that oil production has on the environment.  We have unfortunately long forgotten about the multiple past oil spills in the past.   Oil has become a necessary evil, with oil powering our transportation, heating our homes and being a tremendous danger to the environment to acquire.    

The United States is the biggest oil consumers on the planet using 20,680,000barrels a day and only producing 8,457,000barrells per day.  Because our dependency is more than our supply we have become dependent on other countries for our oil addiction and this can cost us in many ways.  We are taking money away from the economy of the United States and giving it to the economies of foreign countries to the detriment of America.  With the price of gasoline and heating oil at around the same price of $3.20 per gallon and rising, people are thinking twice about if the need to drive somewhere or heat their homes with oil.  The price of oil has a trickledown effect on the rest of the economy.  Even alternative heating sources rise with the price of oil such as wood.  The products we buy in stores get to people by transporting them which is costing more money so we are seeing increases in the prices of food and other products at our stores.  One solution is the importance to keep in mind to buy local food.  Local foods are most of the time healthier for you as well as the environment since it has to travel less to get to you.  Buying local also supports your local economy and gives less dependence on other countries for our survival. 

Living in a cold climate it is a necessity to have a warm home and most people find it crucial to have transportation so we need to find greener solutions to incorporate. We must ask ourselves if it is really necessary to be traveling at great distances on a regular basis, find others that can carpool with you or if the distance is close one can walk or ride a bike.  The transportation aspect is the place where corporations have a grip hold on the American people.  With the attempts at greener cars we still lack a solid solution that is effective enough to reduce gas consumption.  Throughout the United States there has been an increase of powering public transportation with bio-fuels or electricity but this doesn’t help the rural areas that cannot depend on public transportation. Throughout United States there has been an increase in wind power being incorporated for electricity which avoids oil consumptions.  At this time there is a not a lot of options for affordable wind power to be incorporated for individual usage.  Another way that we can use the environment for heat and electricity is through solar power which is more consumers friendly.  My only conclusion, buy local and stay local as much as you can.   

Bumper sticker Ideas

Here are some bumper sticker Ideas

I should be walking or riding a bike but I am too lazy

This car will break fast if you are riding too close

I wish for peace in my mind and love in my heart

Love yourself, no one else is going to

Eat Organic and support local farmers

I brake for invisible things that I think I see in the road

If you don't love yourself, no one else is going to

Don't be a cancer upon the earth

Be the solution and not the problem

Pesticides are chemicals that kill things, including you

Weather report

Another day…another storm.  I have been living in a winter wonderland for this winter.  All this amazing snow has definitely made up for the lack there of last winter.  The snow falling is so beautiful and peaceful, as long as I am not driving in the snow.  It is suspected that there will be no school tomorrow, so all the children will be very happy about this.  I on the other hand would like school to still be on as long as it is safe enough to drive.  I have my favorite class tomorrow, the only class I actually go to and it has been snowed out once already.  It figures that the one class I would not want snowed out, in fact does indeed get snowed out.  The weather report for right now is cloudy with snow developing around 11 am-it is 11:20 and I don’t see snow yet.  It is 11degrees and it is not going to warm up too much as the snow comes in; we have a high of 20 degrees suspected for today.  It is February 1, 2011 and we have a winter storm warning thru February 3^rd.  Today we will get 1-3 inches of snow, tonight we will get 1-2 inches and tomorrow is the real storm where we will get 6-10 inches with a high of 18 degrees tomorrow.  It is always amusing that almost everyone goes to the grocery store before a storm, like everyone ran out of food before a storm and they won’t be able to survive without going ASAP.  Well I feel like I am going to be one of those people today just because I want bread.  I will avoid the large grocery store and just go to the small local market place to get some yummy bread.  Or better yet I should make my own..I will most likely be snowed in tomorrow and what better to do than to make bread….YUMMY!!