Where I am in Central Kentucky is baffling beyond words.  In a state well known for decades of lack of development, all of a sudden, everybody is building.

In Hardin County, we used to be surprised to see a neighborhood being built that was ten or twelve houses at a time.  Now, the builders descend in with huge crews and equipment, and build FAST.  I have seen 3 or so sixty or seventy home developments in the last couple of years shoot up.  I figured, well, that about fills this market, more building that we have seen since the early Reagan years!  WRONG.  On my route to work, they are new tearing up three huge areas all within 3/4 of a mile of each other and about that distance from two of the current developments, preparing for three more (!!)

There has been a new Super Walmart built, followed immediately by restuarants, strip mall up the street, office parks, two new call center facilities.

It seems as though after decades of sloth, even slow old Kentucky has finally decided to join the building race, and can't get enough.  The size of trucks and cars only seems to get bigger, with driveways in some cases now having mulitple SUV's (!!!)  In a state with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the nation, I cannot even guess where all the money is coming from.

And frankly, what few people have heard of Peak Oil, oil depletion, or Gore's global warming simply dismiss it out of hand as another Y2K type hoax, and show zero interest.

Roger Conner  known to you as ThatsItImout