Dear Princess Blog Spot,

I was thinking about oil at lunch today while I was eating my #5 (turkey and cranberry sauce) at the Togo’s on Pacific Coast Highway in El Segundo. My sandwich was on a plastic plate on a plastic tray on a plastic table. As the cranberry sauce dripped out the un-cut end of my sandwich (I eat my sandwich from the cut end on Tuesdays for variety), I wondered what this all meant when a huge fireball appeared in the sky, followed by a black cloud of smoke.

I knew this must be a signal.

There were three more fireballs and smoke clouds.

These were from the Chevron Plant!

I think this was sent by Indians on the East Coast, where it was 4 PM. I decided it meant it was one hour to quitting time. I picked up my drink and walked back to the moat.

Bye for now,
Frog

Dear My Frog Prince: Yay Indians! Yay Time Zones! Yay Leaving Your Job Early! Love, Princess Hydro

Dear Princess Blog Spot,
I was thinking about oil again last night when I was at the Health Club. I saw three people climb into a Ford Diesel Crew Cab Pickup truck with dual wheels in the back and drive away from the club. I checked on the Ford Website and I think it was a Super Duty model, which weighs 10,000 lbs!
These three people could have easily gotten around in a regular car (two of them for sure, the third one might have needed something a little more heavy duty!). A regular car weighs about 4,000 lbs, so these folks were moving 6,000 extra pounds around, which surely uses a lot of oil. I wonder if they would do things the same way if they had to move the extra weight themselves!
Bye for now,
Frog

Dearest Frog: Hmm… Would any of us do things the way we do them, if we had to carry our own weight, so to speak? An oily question for the ages, perhaps, yet the answer seems rather obvious, doesn’t it? Have a nice day! Princess BlogBlogBlog