On Really Bad Drivers and a Question for my Readers

Yes I know, anyone who rides in this weather has more than a few loose screws. (And probably a bad cassette, a toasted chain, a buggered rear derailleur.) But anyone who wonders why I ride to work should try taking the Queen Street Car one day, that ought to change opinions of my mental health in a right hurry. To me there are two options, ride or walk, public transit is a non-starter.

Anyway today, December 30 I am riding along Queen on Brian's old Rocky Mountain beater, I have just left the office where I exit on Richmond, since I am a good boy who always obeys the law I went the direction of the one way street (Richmond is one way Westbound only) to York then North on York to Queen where I now go East. On Queen between York and Bay as I go East a woman in a silver GM small sedan, with a license AEDT 744 speeds past me in the left lane, as there are stopped cars not 3m ahead of me in the left she quickly dodges right, nearly hits me and continues in the right lane about 20m, I don't actually catch up with her until the next traffic light. When I do I yell at here, as follows:

Me: "Yo!"

Driver: Stops eating out of a bag of what looks like potato chips, turns, looks either surprised or terrified, maybe both

Me: "You do a lane change like that again and I'm calling the cops on you!"

Me: I ride off into the sunset.

So if you see a reckless driver in a silver car with the license AEDT 744 let me know and I'll make sure that the good people at 51 division learn all about it. (Hey maybe we should start a bulletin board, "dangerous drivers and what they did", cops wouldn't need to make ticket quotas any more, just talk to cyclists, if the story is believable they could press charges without need for actually patrolling the streets!)

Anyway I was going to write an article about where energy will come from in the future, but frankly I don't feel inspired by it at the moment and although writing about how to deal with nuclear waste attracted a surprising number of readers I am just not sure if I ought to even go there. So I am going to put what I started below and say the following, if you want me to actually write this thing, you have to put a comment, with your real live actual name, like the thing on your subprime mortgage... okay, like the thing on your clothing - if it says Kelvin Klein I want a loan! You have to say why I should write it.

If you really don't want me to write about this, but want to read about something else, you have to tell me that too in the comments below.

If you don't give a damn, well then you don't have to say anything at all.

Anyway without further ado here is what I started:

Subject "On A Greener Future"

Recent responses to my blog entry on Nuclear power got me thinking a great deal on the subject of Energy. I have felt for a long time that the human race cannot go on as it has. I would like to consider, in greater detail how we go about getting from the World we live in today, where, every single day we, humanity, consumes roughly 85 million barrels of oil to a World without oil. And I would like to consider how we continue our current standard of living without turning our planet into an unlivable hell hole, hopefully at the same time.