Some of you have asked me about my trip across the country. I have to say that it was long and it was kind of lonely at points -- possibly why I started talking to the car. I kind of ate my way across the country, sampling barbeque in Tennessee and Texas, Mexican food in New Mexico and Subway in Arkansas. A lot of the highway was just long wide-open space, especially once I passed into western Texas.

From western Texas pretty much to the metro Los Angeles area, it was absolutely gorgeous, but absolutely barren. The desert and hills and mountains stretched on and on, really conveying the impact of land untouched by man and the vastness of just how big our country really is. See, for a person like me who grew up in New England, I'm used to driving two hours and passing through three states. It's kind of shock when it takes you two days to cross a single state. The one thing that really got to me were the oil fields. Next to the highways, I could see oil derricks and pumps taking oil out of the ground -- yet I knew that wasn't the only place it was happening. Our head Moron-in-Charge is opening up protected lands in Alaska to further the oil plundering. And the odd thing was that next to one of the oil fields was a small windfarm.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a windfarm is a bunch of windmill-like structures grouped together in a small area that use wind power to generate electricity. I saw another big one in southern California in Coachella Valley, and it was a great sight to see. It actually warmed my heart a little to think that they really were putting their money where their mouths were to try and use some decent unharmful methods to generate some extra power.

Now, I'm not a tree-hugging hippie as Eric Cartman might say, but I still believe that there's a definite chance that we're ruining our planet with our need for oil and we're destroying precious reserves as well as ecosystems that should probably remain untouched to get to that oil. I read somewhere that a windfarm the size of Rhode Island would generate enough electricity for at least half the country, and although I could be wrong, I know that I drove through enough empty land that could probably (and easily) support windfarms twice that size. We wouldn't have to worry about having to open up new oil fields, we wouldn't have to worry about burying nuclear waste. That's why I think if the Nevadans don't want to accept that nuclear waste that President Moron is trying to force on them, a decent alternative would be to build a windfarm in that location to generate some natural power using methods that didn't affect the environment -- and especially the humans and other animals living in that environment.

So what mess has our lovely leader gotten us into today?