I feel like I got lucky somewhat... when I got to the cheapest filling station I posted about the sign with prices listed Diesel for $4.099 so needing to be at work soon and now time to drive to another one I decieded to just get it there. when I was actually at the pump the pump was still charging 3.999

never thought I would be happy about $4 a gallon but it could be worse. And OldSkull yes it is about time or ratherpast time that as a group of nations we find other sources of fuel. There are non food competing bio fuel stocks that we could tap into. Way back in the 1970's during and after the Opec embargo, during The Carter pessidency they wanted to build Algee farms in the deasert to make bio fuels. at a cost of then about $25 millon dollars or something like that they thought they could make enough the fuel the country. Now we spend billoins a day to keep some level of peace in the middle east so the oil will flow to us and the rest of the world that needs to import it. Carter did a lot to improve the our energy use and get us as a counrty to be more efficent, he even had solar panels on the white house. After he left office those big dreams of energy indpendance and green power along with the solar panels went in favor of the now cheap again oil and corprate greed and excess.
Think where we might be now if we started algee based bio fuels then...... we would not be importing like we do now and I'm sure we could thumb our noses at those radicals that hate us but need us to buy their oil.
You all should watch the Fuel Film