OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

Joe, I originally meant to send this a few days ago. I wrote it off-line and it has been sitting in my out-box, but here goes :-) I don't think "crisis" is quite accurate. The oil industry has had several refineries burn, and who knows, maybe some of them are old or undersize. They may need to build more. or rebuild burned ones. The electricity problems comes from growing and growing use, without appropriate updates on the power system. Drilling in new locations isn't supposed to increase refinery capacity. It is part of a longer range solution. Drilling in new locations is something a lot of countries are doing. Drilling in the North Sea is being done now, or maybe deeper water than normal..... I don't recall. I have seen a show on Discovery or TLC about the building of the platform. It was a huge engineering feat the way they built it. Personally, I'd like to see a move away from oil, not totally, but maybe a diversification. I'd like to see cars powered by grain alcohol, although I admit, I don't really know any specifics. Something might have to be done about people drinking the contents of ones gas tank :-) Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA joe wrote: