Black Gold: Coal?

* The real black gold might be coal. Check out this story on the Montana governor's call to turn coal into fuel. Using, hold your breath, Nazi technology!

The governor estimated the cost of producing a barrel of oil through the Fischer-Tropsch method at $32, and said that with its 120 billion tons of coal -- a little less than a third of the U.S total -- Montana could supply the entire United States with its aviation, gas and diesel fuel for 40 years without creating environmental damage.

* Looks like Iraq is bogged down in the constitution process. Doesn't this mean they're well on their way to becoming a free country? If a dictator was running the place, there'd be no bogging down. They'd shoot the opposition to un-bog the process. I was thinking about how the US Federal Government gets bogged down. Or every year, the CA government gets bogged down in the budget process. Vendors don't get paid, everybody starts complaining, and then CA issues debt to pay for whatever is in the budget that it can't afford, and everybody is happy. Maybe Iraq should start issuing bonds and paying off folks like CA does. Works here!

* Something sounds oh-so-right about a burrito for lunch.

* Do you listen to Air America? Didn't think so. Ratings.