Forum Post: What the Fuck V: what the fuck . . .

I bought 15 gallons of gasoline today for the lawn mower, nearly choking on the price tag - just under $60.00 including a gallon of water and a cup of coffee. What is worse is the knowledge that it is this price tag that makes tar sands exploitation so viable and even attractive, to the fossil fuel industry.

The only rational solution is to tax their profit and thus make the exploitation of tar sands a loosing proposition - but repelicans have already sold the mantra no new taxes to the vast majority of the nation - unless of course we happen to be talking tax on alternative energy sources that are decentralized . . .

These Koch Whore attacks on all forms of alternative energy just never seem to cease . . .

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So there I was, out running the roads this afternoon, when I saw a family of four out for a sunny Sunday afternoon bicycle ride. They were all sensibly, dutifully, attired in their stream lined and aerodynamic little dick head hats . . . the risks of head injury seemed completely mitigated by this young family.

For once memory did not turn on that blaring news article from so long ago, banner headline twice its normal size, agonizing over the strange and incomprehensible and totally fatal accident that befell a young mother on a national bicycle tour with her family - the second accident for her, having just recovered sufficiently from the first accident which had left her hospitalized at the local hospital for nearly a year . . . when death finally came for her it left her children by the roadside screaming . . .

It is only now memory takes this path of endless torment without explanation or reason . . . who can say what griefs may send a screaming man into madness . . . into mayhem . . . or onto murder . . .

but I digress . . .

Stopped at a light I watched as one of the two young boys fell to the sidewalk. Mother picked him up and I failed to witness more. Was he screaming? Did his tears quickly dry beneath this Sunday sun?

I have no idea . . . I have no idea for here we are, 190 years after the greenhouse effect was first documented and nearly 26 years since James Hansen first declared before Congress and so to the whole world:

Global Warming Has Begun

here we are after all this time, no closer to any solution at all, and my mind preoccupied with the knowledge that the probability of happiness, or even survival, past the age of 50 for these two youngsters is an iffy proposition at best . . .

and for no explicable reason I began to snarl.

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