Riding Back to Winter With Focus

Winter has blasted our spring-like weather pattern with up to 8 inches of snow and blowing wind to 45 mph.

I’ve swapped in my winter ice-spike tire only on the front for safe steering. I expect the roads and paths to be clear tomorrow early morning after clearing snow all day so I wouldn’t need a rear winter tire now.

The environmental consequences of the war to Iran have included damage to fossil fuel infrastructure that has caused black rain and thick smoke over Tehran, according to NYTimesApp.

This has prompted concerns that tanks of mazut, a bottom-of-the-barrel oil residue product used in power plants, have caught on fire, releasing huge quantities of sulfur and other toxic pollution into the air where these deadly chemicals are especially lethal to breath and cause innumerable illnesses, diseases and deaths.

And experts say that this catastrophic upheaval will not necessarily push governments around the world to pick up the pace of renewable energy production phasing out far sooner gas-combustion engines.

The Iranian control of the Straight of Hormuz and the resulting inability of oil tankers to pass through, reminds us all how much we are paying for our dependency on fossil fuel.

Gas prices, grocery prices, airfare, etc. are all increasing because of our continuing and growing dependency on oil.

If we made a plan for far more renewable energy production and use, this mess wouldn’t seem nearly as formidable.