The price of 87 octane regular was $3.47/gallon here yesterday.

Perhaps the only thing a non-political rodder can do is to start to look at lightweight vehicles if this political gridlock continues. The cultural switch to three-wheelers with HD engines will at least have a traditional base in the long history of motorcycles. Even then I checked out the big HDs at the agency at the end of my street and found they only get about 38 mpg. Well pardon my frustration, but with all the coal in North America and recently documented oil deposits in Colorado/ND and oil sands in western Canada, it looks to me that the problem is more environmental-political than geological!

My Congressman answers my e-mail messages so maybe maybe NSRA and even SEMA folks should keep the messages flowing asking for common sense development of U.S. oil and coal deposits; let your congressman know how you feel about caribou versus oil in ANWAR. Considering the increase in food prices relative to oil maybe there should be caribou-burgers, but then there would need to be some transportation costs to bring the burgers to population centers. That just shows how important oil is to food as well as heat and transportation.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder