the GOT bike

I haven't. Sorry, but not truly sorry, I recognize I live a rather absurdly fortunate life which allows me to organize it in a way that doesn't require a car, but I've been hearing news about tremendous oil price fluctuations. The reality, I know, is that much of our, the world's, infrastructure necessitates transportation by burning up dead dinosaur bits. We're addicted to energy. What happens when you cut off an addict's supply? It gets ugly. The addict will do anything, ridiculous things, to get the fix. When the addict is the world and the fix is another shot of oil, "things" will include suspending sanctions on one country that attacked another sovereign country on only perceived, or concocted, provocation. I'd say Putin loves the US and Israeli assault on Iran, despite active negotiations, twice, except that it is probably limiting the supply of drones for his own megalomaniac attacks. Addiction can also be more subtle. One of the reports I h...