I say bring back those good old traditional American energy sources!!!!

[guillaumeb]

No, not coal.

I am speaking of whale oil and animal dung.

Yes, there is a shortage suitable whales, which can be remedied when the Trump brand whale farms start production.

Luckily for us, there is no shortage of animal dung. Indeed, with the growth of corporate factory farms, the US has an abundance of animal dung.

So all we need to do is harvest the dung, and burn it in our Trump brand dung stoves.

And there we have it, a Trump jobs program, and a renewal energy program.

[Walleye]

1. Two words for idiots who don't believe in renewable energy. Hoover Dam?

[guillaumeb]

4. Hydro power? Of course. eom

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Or hay twisted tightly to be a decent fuel.

Heck, the Ingalls family survived a truly terrible winter in South Dakota that way!

For those of you not completely familiar with all the wonderful Laura Ingalls Wilder books, I suggest you read The Long Winter, which is where the burning of hay occurs. Really good.

[guillaumeb]

3. My grandparents lived in homes heated by woodstoves.

And Canadian winters are long and cold.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. And I bet that all winter they lived almost entirely in one room,

probably the kitchen.

As a child in northern New York State in the 1950s, there were farms near us that had not yet gotten electricity. Used wood stoves for heating and yes, spent almost the entire winter in the kitchen.

[guillaumeb]

8. Yes, mainly on the ground floor. Around the stoves.

The rooms upstairs were heated, if you can call it that, by heat rising through metal floor grates above the 2 stoves.

[yonder]

9. "Twisting the Hay Rope" -- I'll drop this Irish air right here:

From the playing of Seamus Ennis, perhaps Ireland's most famous Uilleann piper many years ago.

The story goes that a girl’s parents didn’t like the man she was seeing, so they asked him to help them with the making of Tsúgáin (Hay rope). As he added the hay to the rope he would twist it and move back as the rope got longer. When he eventually stepped outside the cottage, the parents slammed the door shut.

In my opinion the air would've finished well had he broke into a driving reel at the end though probably close to blasphemy with respect to the air.

Apologize in advance for it's off topic-edness, other than the name.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Bullshit future markets have tanked, thankfully.

Too much current bullshit to consider a future's market.

[guillaumeb]

6. A tsunami of it coming from the White House. eom