So what are my thoughts? I am not sure. RideSearch is actually picking up - I am getting close to 20 people a day signing up now. I have over 13,100 members. The problem is I have pretty much washed my hands of RideSearch. So it is like I have a site that is growing but I don't want to do any work for it. What do I mean? I haven't posted a blog post or sent out a monthly newsletter in over a year. Take my recent conversations with a marketing guy from NewEgg.com. He wanted to provide car decals to carpooling members so that they would get paid to promote the site. I entertained it for a couple of weeks, but I never followed up because that would mean I would have to do work for it. I even found a site that would get RideSearch an iPhone app for like $200. There are always opportunities for business with this site. It is a good idea, I just got tired of it though. So now I am thinking, what if I gave someone 5% commission to sell my site? Its future value could be worth millions. But I think the hard part is the valuation of it. What if it is the next Facebook? Who knows? I will give whomever sells the site 5% commission as long as I approve of the sale.

Anyways, I think the reason why more people are coming to the site is because of the oil spills. People are seeing the environment being affected negatively and are willing to carpool to save money. Or because of the bad economy people are needing a ride to work to save money. That is one of the many reasons why I am interested in a Nissan Leaf. I think we all can see that electric cars are the future. They have to be. While the 20th century was the heyday of the gas powered car, the 21st century will be the heyday of the electric powered car. Just wait till they start driving themselves. In 20 years gasoline powered cars will be hard to find. I think the Leaf will be the Model T of our time.

So am I an environmentalist? Yes. I like the environment. We recycle and today we just put in some LED bulbs in the house. That saves money as well. A normal 65W bulb is equal to a 4W LED bulb and those bulbs last 30 years. That is the best part about being a conservationist. Saving money. Even Biblically I think mankind was put in charge of the earth and it is our responsibility to take care of it. The recent global warming trend and environmental disasters relate directly to mankind's sin of not caring for the planet. That is easy to see. I think global warming is all but proven - there is no scientific body that disputes it. The only people who believe that there is no global warming are people who don't research things and only get their news from talk radio, where they are not held accountable for lying. Anyways, those are my thoughts.