The talk of the town was that Obama is coming! Everybody with a political axe to grind was welcome to go to Palo Alto and wave their signs on the street he was expected to drive down. I pulled out my "It's time to cut carbon" and figured out how to carry it on my bike. I took the camera along. This is what I came back with.

  

Rode the last part of the trip with Dana and Gerry. I'd stopped at their house along the way to help make egg noodle ravioli from scratch. That was fun but I didn't take any pictures. Remember eating the ravioli later though. Yumm!

When I got where the guild sent me there were a couple of dozen people staying on the sidewalk because the cops were complaining and browbeating every time someone touched the pavement with their shoe.

  

Lisa announced that Obama was more likely to come down another street. She asked us all to join the other people there. I went. Yup. There were more interesting signs there.

That idea that tar sands oil triple our carbon dioxide (C02) emissions per gallon of gasoline consumed because of all the energy require to mine and refine and ship the oil is very troubling to me. It says we're scraping the bottom of the barrel to get this stuff. Why would they do that if there was a better energy source? Why would we do this if we weren't addicted to gasoline? The only sustainable solution is to use less energy every day. We've got to listen to the signals in rising gas prices!

  

I think that sign waving moment was for Obama as his motorcade was going through the far intersection.