Ok, Shinnfans. I know you’re tried of pondering my hair, so I thought I’d give you something more interesting to think about: oil. You may all know about this, but the existence of the strategic petroleum reserve is news to me. And shocking news at that. To think that our government keeps almost a billion barrels of oil in gigantic salt-lined natural caves along the gulf coast is really fascinating to me. It conjures images of that movie from the 1980’s with the cave beneath Mount Rushmore where the President and lots of important-looking generals would scurry around and decide whether or not we should launch nukes at the Russians. These strategic reserves are apparently no big secret, judging from the amount of information about them that’s readily available. But I’d never heard of them until this morning (thank you, Google Desktop Bar). It really makes me wonder what else our government does that I haven’t yet caught wind of. Do you know of (or suspect) something interesting that you’d care to share with the rest of us? Do it in the comments below.
Conspiratorially,
Andrew