{"id":102,"date":"2005-09-03T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2005-09-03T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T21:56:28","slug":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things to Come? (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(apologies to H.G. Wells<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Yesterday the pumps went dry at both gas stations on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Although most military families in Tucson buy gas on base, this doesn’t create a hardship, since we can buy gas at the same discounted price at Costco and other civilian discount stations around town. At the moment, there are no fuel distribution or supply problems in Arizona: not a single off-base station (and there are hundreds of them) is out of gas.<\/p>\n

But I’m wondering. It’s pretty clear the base didn’t “run out” of gas. Whoever was supposed to reorder fuel when the inventory got low, didn’t. Was this a mistake, or was it deliberate? I’m thinking it was deliberate. The military, as part of the government, is sending a government-sponsored message to its people. It’s training us to share the pain. It’s leaning forward, anticipating nationwide gas shortages.<\/p>\n

Will those shortages come? And how soon? What do you think? I’ll tell you what I think. Yes. Soon.<\/p>\n

Well, great. Maybe this’ll finally kickstart the development of hydrogen production, distribution, and fuel cell technology. Thirty years ago they were saying we could convert from petroleum to hydrogen in about thirty years. Today, they’re saying we can convert from petroleum to hydrogen . . . in about thirty years. You know, if we don’t get effing started, it’s always going to be thirty years away.<\/p>\n

I’m thankful I have a motorcycle, a vehicle that gets 40+ miles to the gallon. I expect I’ll be riding it lot this fall (and maybe all winter – I’m also thankful I live in a dry, warm climate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(apologies to H.G. Wells) Yesterday the pumps went dry at both gas stations on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Although most military families in Tucson buy gas on base, this doesn’t create a hardship, since we can buy gas at the same discounted price at Costco and other civilian discount stations around town. At the moment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}