Seattle environmental think tank Sightline recently reported that three out of five petroleum geologists surveyed think world oil production will peak within ten years. (More than ten percent think it's already happened.) What that means for us is more potholes. As the AP reports: "Asphalt is becoming scarce as U.S. refiners overhaul their equipment to maximize output of highly profitable fuels such as diesel and gasoline, using inexpensive—and hard to process—crude oil." A local asphalt......

Here is a statement overheard when a local brewer was talking to Ralph Olson, owner of Hopunion (A Yakima located supplier of hops to world-wide brewers), as he was getting off a phone call: That's just another person trying to get me to shit hops. Beautiful. Something really has to be up in the world of hops when the man who should have them falling out of every nook and cranny in his house......