Jennifer, really it was in somewhat in jest. I'm poking a little fun at Obama's suggestion that we can inflate our tires to get out of the oil price crisis that we're in. He says we'll add 800,000 barrels of oil per day to our supply by keeping our tires aired up. Ummmm, so, I thought it'd be funny if someone came up with a oil drill that looked like a tire gauge and labeled it "Big Air: Obama's Energy Plan"
By the way, on a bit of a related topic, I read this from an article that appeared last year in the LA Times. Interesting stuff, and someone should trot this out. It describes an experiment that the writer is almost giddy to the point of ecstasy about regarding China's emission reduction efforts in the weeks right before the Olympics. Keep in mind this was written last year.
As much as 25% of the air pollution in Los Angeles comes from China; at certain sites in California, as much as 40% of the air pollution comes from Asia. When the Chinese undertake this enormous, if short-term, change in their emissions, it will send a signal across the ocean to the U.S. that the control of air pollution in one part of the world can in fact affect the atmosphere on the other side of the globe. If we can detect a change in China's emissions as far away as the United States, the great experiment will dramatically illustrate that our choices about emissions can transform the health of the planet.
Any takers?
Oh, yeah, that's not air pollution in Beijing. It's mist. We can already detect that there's, in fact, zero emissions in Beijing. It's only a mist created by evaporation and humidity. That mist is the secret to the end of global warming, folks. Where's Al Gore? Ted Danson? Nancy Pelosi?
Read the whole article
here, and laugh out loud.
