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What do I want for Christmas?

Published by Jerry on December 22, 2006 in Family, Food and Ramblings. 0 Comments Tags: afghanistan, christmas, congo, Darfur, Food, genocide, iraq, iraq-war, lebanon, live-earth-farm, oil, outstanding-in-the-field, palestine, paulstamatiou.com, politics, Sarah-McLachian, stewardship, sustainability, what-i-want-for-christmas.

Paul’s contest got me thinking again about what I want for Christmas.

I always do my best thinking on this topic way to close to Christmas for it to make much difference — my family is typically done with shopping and often pissed at me for having made picking a present for me so hard. The only reason that I can come up with for procrastinating this so long is that I am in a service industry where everyone wants to push everything out before everyone else takes vacation — and that means that my early December is wicked-busy. This year was no exception. Today is day 2 of my vacation — I was so busy the first half of this month that I needed the entire first day to decompress.

So now I sit — in a quiet house (not totally quiet, Airtunes is playing Sarah McLachian right now — recent tracks). Paula and my two girls are out on a play-date and it’s just me and the laptop — ah, the life.

What more could I want? Continue reading ‘What do I want for Christmas?’

Tesla Motors — The Next Electric Car

Published by Jerry on September 29, 2006 in Ramblings. 0 Comments Tags: bush, iran, iraq, oil, power, scott-schnaars, solar, solar-power, tesla-motors, venezuela.

Scott has a write-up (complete with pretty pictures) about the Tesla Roadster on his blog. Scott’s writeup is worth a look.

The next step is to combine solar power collection with this Tesla beast and we will really have something to solve a bunch of problems.

Could you imagine: if the US didn’t have this jones for oil (cars, home heating, nitrogen fertilizer, etc.), we wouldn’t have to keep poking our nose into the business of those who have it (Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, etc.).

If the US and the rest of the West found a way to live without consuming so much oil, the folks with the oil would be far less powerful.

And, the likes of little Bush would not be able to justify our “meddling in the affairs of such countries” on a need to protect the West’s access to this “resource”.

Go Tesla! Go!