Honey, can you pass the oil?

I wonder if there’s a philosopher’s stone-type-thingamabob that turns oil into salt.

…

still wondering.

While I ponder that, here’s some other food for thought.

I talked with Anne Karin at the Set America Free: Energy Freedom Summit. She had some interesting stuff to say about that pesky nuisance we call oil and some other tidbits. I was going to upload my interview with her but technical difficulties prevent me from doing so.

Instead, here are the highlights:

• Oil is a fungible commodity
• Turning oil into a common commodity like salt would erase our dependence on oil, especially foreign oil
• In the past, salt was like oil: whoever had salt wasa major player in the global economy. (In some sense this is still true. Whoever has the salt at the dinner table back home rules us all)
• Alternative energy like solar and wind is great and all, but it doesn’t resolve our dependence on oil.

Mull over that while I return to the drawing room and figure out what’s going on with the techie hoodlums in my computer.

 

gt.

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