I have been working new construction this summer and I have to tell its hot alright.  Even hotter in a new building with no ac.  Its so hot working in there that when I walk outside it seems cool.   I just drink lots of water to stay on top of it and not get into heat trouble.  October can't get here soon enough.  I'd like to go somewhere where's snow.  I'd strip down and lay in it.

I read with interest today an article in the Times about how many and how much oil has been leaking from wells in the Gulf since the 60's.   With 42,000 wells in the Gulf it sounds like there is a continous leak going on somewhere.  It should be apparent to even the most diehard oil apologists that big oil really does control the national government to the extent that whatever they want they get.   They obviously want the percariousness of the drilling hused up and that's what they got.   They control the congress and white house to the extend that this past week saw we saw where any new intiative to have an energy policy that is forward thinking and makes sense is now dead.

I keep thinking and fully believe any breakthru in alternative energy will come from some 'backyard' tinkerer who makes a discovery.  Lets hope when that happens the discovery gets out soon before big oil can sit on it.

So the crooks in congress are still very much on the payroll of the big Wall Street finanical firms.  The financial regulation bill in front of them wanted to create a system where the financial firms actually had to have indepentant rating agencies rating thier financial instruments.

Of course the big financial firms didn't like that.  They want the status quo to prevail and that is they pay the rating agencies to rate their financial instruments.  That's was a large part of what caused the financial meltdown.  They payoff the rating agencies, they payoff congress to keep it that way and the consumer gets screwed as always.  Nice going again Congress, you always show who you are really looking out for.

Lets hope that this terrible oil spill brings the need to have alternative energy sources into a sharp focus and we as a nation finally do something about it.  To that end Next Era Energy (FPL)has a 25 megawatt solar photovoltaic electric plant in DeSoto County, Florida the largest in the Country and a 75 megawatt solar thermal with natural gas backup in Martin County, Florida.  They also have a 735.5 megawatt wind farm in Horse Hollow, Texas.   Its a start but we need to do this all over the country.