I've started drawing again and I should have some new comics up by the end of the month. Thanks to everyone still reading this crap for your patients!
the IT department at my office decided that Myspace wasn't work relevant enough to keep off the firewall filter list. I don't blame them, it's sort of their job to do that sort of thing. But it's curtailed my 'spacing time. Add to that my dying cable modem and you have a recipe for me never being able to get here!

So the highlights of the summer for me were seeing quite a few old friends, showing my hometown to Lisa (sorry to my hometown peeps for not popping in, it was sort of a spur of the moment tour), loosing 30 pounds, taking Lilly on her first wooden rollercoaster and also her first "vomit" ride, planting potatos, marking off next years garden (vegetables and fruit, unless there's some way that I can grow a beef tree), getting a dog, walking at the dam with the kids and Lisa... you know all that normal fun summer stuff. :)

However there's something I keep hearing people yak about that's bugging me, so I figure I'll just pop my thoughts on it here today and see what you guys and girls think...

Not a day goes by that I don't hear or read something about domestic drilling for oil. I understand the thought process behind it, gas prices are still high and you would think that drilling some more oil from a national park is a great "quick" way to address this.

You would think that. But you'd be wrong.

Without getting too involved or sounding like an asshole, the problem is that it will take about ten years and billions in federal subsidies to large oil companies to get the oil from the ground to the pumps. The mid range estimates have it that it will drop the price of gas (in 2018 or so) by about 25 to 35 cents. And then in forty years after that the supply will have peaked. If we invested that same money and energy into breaking our oil addiction period in ten years we'd could be more than halfway to a infrastructure that is sustainable, renewable and more environmentally friendly.

Every time I hear some yahoo talk about how "we have all the oil we need" and its "the dirty hippies who are holding things up" I cringe.

I could go on about this for a while but I won't. I'm not exactly the picture of green living myself. But I'm trying.

My first comic, when I start posting again, will probably be about this... it's on my mind alot... that the the concept of cognitive dissonance... but that's a totally different topic... sort of.