I was in bed immediately after ECW at 1pm and checked in on Coast. George had “Curses line”. Yeesh. Ot tppl me maybe 30 minutes before I fell asleep and I woke up when Anne came in and periodically after that. I think though I got maybe 6 hours in.

It’s overcast out there, probably about 8 degrees. This is how it’s going to look for the whole long weekend. Ih well I’m hunkering down regardless of the weather. I don’t go out anywhere. On the weekends anyway, just as well.

The housing crisis here in Edmonton is still not fixed. This is what happens with a booming economy. You either get lots of jobs and no housing or little jobs when the economy is bust and plentiful housing. At the moment there is about a 0 % housing rate. The amusing part of all this is that gas prices at the pump (in part thanks to the long weekend) are at a $1.20L. Consumers are fuming. We can’t understand living in a Province so abundant with oil we should have to pay these high prices. Good news is that after the long weekend, watch the price of gas at the pump will drop. If that’s not gouging, I don’t know what is.  

The thing is wait until these environmentalists in Ottawa get in the way and penalize the Oil industry, when supply drops the price goes up. It’s the simple Law of supply and demand folks. The problem is I think not with Western democracies but with third world countries. Look how many babies get born

Rant alert! ! In third world countries in places like Africa not to mention even more developed countries like China and India. Even here. I read where the pediatric ward at the UoA hospital is overflowing in new births every month. At one point a few months back there was something like 20-40 babies born at that hospital alone. Too many women are having babies and this translates into stress on the planet. Each human being you me all of us pump out our own Co2 emissions something like to the tune of 450L/day through our repertory system. See Co2 Wikipedia Human physiology. Lets get back though to prices at the pump because gasoline is part of the oil industry. It is the Oil industry that the environmentalists want to target. They want to penalize it. The oil industry works on Supply and Demand not a profit loss margin and is regulated by Opec. When the supply of gasoline is down the price goes up. This translates into everything. It translates into mail, groceries at the Supermarket everything will be affected and not just in a small way. If goods cannot be transported then people will have to be laid off. The well-meaning environmentalists fail to see this. They fail to grasp the economic impact of tampering with the oil industry when the real problem is we as a human race are producing one to many consumers. I think it’s time to pull the plug on that. Let’s have third world countries have their men sterile at birth. At the moment the fertility rate is something like 129 million births/year or 245 births every hour and 110 people die every hour, according to World Wide Missions. So the birth rate-fatality rate ratio is something like 2-1. This cannot be sustainable, the thing is, there are other things to consider at work here, like ethics, politics, religion.  I'm not trying to pick on anyone. It's a complex issue and the above is my reaction to it.

e. Jim