Another bottle of The Balvenie
The last of another bottle of The Balvenie 10 year old scotch just got poured into my glass. I'm not sure when I bought the bottle. Am guessing this scotch is 12 years old by now. I bought a new bottle Saturday, knowing that I was getting down to my last quarter inches. I can actually remember buying this stuff 6, 7?, years ago for just under $30 a bottle. Saturday, it was $46. Obviously, I've put my money in the wrong stock... I'm doubting,... the price of whiskey, probably didn't shudder a drop over 9/11. Just like the price of oil...
Now, with the price of oil hitting $77, the powers that be are deciding that shale and sand oil are going to be profitable ventures. But the cost of these energies, is energies. The first law of thermodynamics is the conservation of energy. The age of life on earth is approximately 2 billion years. Life conserves energy in carbon matter, and so when you're talking about geological carbon energy you're really talking about 2 billion years of solar power... When I watch the news, I can't help but thinking, we as human beings have become capable of burning all that energy up in, what?, a couple of centuries... The question really becomes, how is the earth going to be capable of withstanding the conservation of 2 billion years of solar energy within the 3 hundred years, in which we're re-innervating it...
Now, with the price of oil hitting $77, the powers that be are deciding that shale and sand oil are going to be profitable ventures. But the cost of these energies, is energies. The first law of thermodynamics is the conservation of energy. The age of life on earth is approximately 2 billion years. Life conserves energy in carbon matter, and so when you're talking about geological carbon energy you're really talking about 2 billion years of solar power... When I watch the news, I can't help but thinking, we as human beings have become capable of burning all that energy up in, what?, a couple of centuries... The question really becomes, how is the earth going to be capable of withstanding the conservation of 2 billion years of solar energy within the 3 hundred years, in which we're re-innervating it...
posted by quantom qurkington at 7:49 PM
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In China, the price of a gallon of gasoline is about $1.70. It's subsidized by the government. You cannot, however, buy a good bottle of scotch unless you import it yourself from some other country. Retail outlets all feature the same brands--Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker, and Glenfiddich. There's some Chinese-made scotch, too. It's the cheapest, costing about 65 RMB a bottle, or about $8. I never bought any of this, though, because I was afraid it was just colored and flavored rice liquor. I bought the Scottish Collie brand, because it was available for a time at my local grocery store. It cost 90 RMB a bottle, and the store clerks would always gasp and laugh in amazement that anyone would pay so much for one bottle of liquor. It wasn't great scotch, but it had more flavor than the more expensive Johnny Walker I was forced to buy when the local store decided not to stock Scottish Collie anymore. I eventually found some again, though, when a specialty liquor store opened in my neighborhood. The bottle was smaller, and the label slightly different, but the cost was about the same. The taste was different, though. It was probably counterfeit, or perhaps the whole Scottish Collie brand is counterfeit. In any case it tasted a lot like a flavored Chinese liquor. Alas.
Collie? Maybe dog pee?
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