We here in southern Missouri tasted flood waters after  hurricane Gustav, and again today the wind was probably a good 50mph considering the tree debris and what other thrown objects out of place along with the flooding river through our property can only imagine the realities of an exponential X what Texas and Lousiana coasts received.  As anyone viewing the reporter damage especially what live aerial footage special channel DTV 361 has broadcast  is shocking and eye opening.  The comments from and frustration from the impacted, evacuated, reporters, and even the mayor of Houston show the life changing reality when the cell phone, TV, refrigeration for food, anything that represents life in a hot climate when not available is a big deal!  Folks are said to not have left because of evacuation memories from Rita; empty gas tanks, no bottled water, where to and how to pay for life away from home, shelter life...caused many to stay.  Now we know that electric power will take weeks to come back on line for the simple things that we take for granted in life...where most of us have tasted the same with an ice storm or blizzard.  It's also easy to forget the discomfort once the event has come and gone, however the press is elevating the whining of a gas price increase because of the hurricane because 'I don't live in Texas' why should it affect me?  Well I could say the same when a frost affects the blossoms on a fruit tree 3 months later when those farmers want more money for a  pound of fruit, I do and I also either adjust my consumption with alternatives or am thankful that they are available.  Gasoline is available, if you were in a mandated evacuation zone being totally reliant on a government restricted  electric car society that shows even water and sewer services are not reliable...are you or is America really ready for Barak Obama' and Nancy Pelosi' "I'm saving the Planet" green version of how Earth deals with animal life?  I don't want an electric car society if they aren't capable of living beyond the golf cart zone.  I would like this same fawning green press to hold a live interview with the ever present T.Boone Pickens or Obama or whomever and state that his idea of windmills and wires will withstand and supply  America through an event such as IKE.