We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem. . . . The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.
This much is certain. . . No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy projects can be brought on at a sufficient rate to avoid a bidding war for the remaining oil.
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.
I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!
I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.
Never forget which way you face
Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light. . . They live on Forever.