Quickies: Trash, Trash, Everywhere

• A garbage truck overturned in Bucks County, spilling trash all over the Route 1. So, there’s garbage all over. How does this make it any different than usual in Buxco? [CBS 3]

• Temple’s search for a new president is down to two candidates after former Penn CEO John Fry dropped out. Now we just have to find out what a university president actually does. [Inky]

• How did I miss this living stuffed toy-like Cavalier King Charles Spaniel before? [Cute Overload]

• The oil spill in the Delaware Bay is still being cleaned up. And — what a surprise! — they don’t know who or what caused the spill. [Inky]

A Solution To High Gas Price Woes

You’ve seen the endless news reports from all of the local stations: Gas is really, really expensive. Oil is over $70 a barrel, which reminds me of the time not so long ago when oil going over $50 was huge news. Eep.

And because of the ethanol switchover — which is when you use corn as an additive to fuel, which I won’t get in to so my head doesn’t explode — some gas stations are running out of gas altogether!

I sold my car a few months back, so I haven’t had to purchase gas in a while, and the brouhaha is largely not something I have a huge concern about. My PGW and PECO bills, well, they’re going up, also, and the price of energy on the whole seems to be on the rise altogether.

But there seems to be a solution: Just today a seven-mile oil sheen was seen in the Delaware Bay. It’ll be cleaned up by the coast guard, but, man, seven miles — why not package some of that up and sell it to the American consumer? That’s how it works, right?

Bush Changes Oil Reserve Policy [CBS 3]
Seven-mile oil sheen spotted in Delaware Bay [Inky]