Vintage Gas

Vintage Dairy's vintage gas, made from...you guessed it. We are talking cows here. California cows. Alternative energy. Doubtless something to look forward to, every town should have one. Reuters:

The covered lagoon, or "digester," is the size of nearly five football fields and about 33 feet deep. It is lined with plastic to protect the ground water and the cover, made of high density polyethylene, is held down at the edges by concrete. The digester's cover was sunken into the lagoon on Tuesday, but officials said it would be taut and raised in a few days as the gas collects underneath it.

The last time we seriously talked about cows they were the bete noire of the green movement, so maybe this earthy stuff in the balance will more than make up for their supposed eco-sins.

Next--Wisconsin. Ripe with opportunity.

This at least seems to make a bit more sense than the ethanol mandates, which don't save energy at all and have pushed food prices through the roof.

But hold your cows, uh horses, not so fast. Must blue, uh brown lagoons the size of several football fields dot, uh spread out across the fruited plains?

Global warming skeptics meet in NY this week, including the delightful Sir Christopher Monckton, who cites King Canute, the Heartland Institute which hails from Illinois, and, as you may have heard, the founder of the Weather Channel who wants to sue Al Gore to expose the fraud of global warming and carbon credit trading. Gore was invited to speak but refused. (Gore presumably prefers the warmer reception for his vintage gas in California.)

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