Garfield on the "Oil Crisis"

A lot of folks cannot understand how we came to have an oil shortage in the United States, a country uncommonly rich in natural resources.

Well, here's a very simple answer.

Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn't know we were getting low.

The reason for that is purely geographical.

Our oil is located in: Alaska, California, coastal Florida, coastal Louisiana, coastal Alabama, coastal Miississippi, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.


The Price of Gasoline, Michael Nesmith
The following, also by Michael Nesmith as seen above, was the first video ever to win "Best Video" award on MTV, if you believe what you read.


Lucy and Ramona, Sunset Sam, Cruisin', Michael Nesmith

West Hollywood, 1979. My daughter and I roller skated here on very rare occasions. That was in another life and a few years later. Michael Nesmith of the Monkees: his mother "invented," holds the patent for, "White Out," something we don't see much any more.

Mike Nesmith was incredibly talented. He also wrote this song:

Different Drum, Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys