Napolitano wants four-day work week study

So one must assume that the logic of turning everything off on Friday for 8 hours won't do anything if all your doing is turning the lights on for a total of 8 extra hours Monday-Thurs? So I'll admit there must be something else that is saving energy because that just makes no sense. However, one must look at the plain and simple fact that unless you are actually cutting down on the actual work being done then shifting the time will just shift the energy out put. I know lets make sure we don't work on rainy or overcast days and just not turn the lights on at all. Whatever happened to the simple methods of turning the lights off when you leave a room. Or letting technology do it's job and have the computers go to standby mode more often then they do now. I have been hearing about saving energy since I understood what the words meant and we keep seeing these little schemes like 4 day work weeks pop up that never really do you much good. Another thought on the 4 day work week, if someone calls in sick your productivity just dropped 2 hours more than it would have in a 5 day work week. If companies really want to save energy then they should do a better job at hiring people who can multi-task and cut the daily works hours down. I know what a novel idea, but like that will ever happen.

An Air Car You Could See in 2009: ZPM’s 106 MPG Compressed-Air Hybrid

Sure it gets great gas milage, just drive it on a windy day? Is this the answer to the gas woes we face? To be honest who knows and right now it's not and it's far off before we know if it will be. However it is nice to see that there are options being thought of that in a matter of years may become the standard. The one thing that keeps sticking out in my mind is that fact that you still have to buy a new car in the end when we do find the next alternative fuel source answer. Not everyone will be able to do that and not even the majority of people will be able to do that. All this comes right back around to the plain and simple fact that we need to drill at home and start drilling now. Oil is still our blood and we can replenish our own lifeline if our the liberals in Washington would let us