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?NATURAL gas, that is – Many delivery trucks and city buses now run on clean-burning natural gas?but this comes from wells, just like oil, and America’s wells are running dry. But Japanese researchers have developed a method of using bacteria found in depleted oil wells to turn leftover crude oil into natural gas. This could supply 10% of our fuel supply.

It works in Japan (yes, there are oil wells there too). In Bloomburg.com, Shigeru Sato and Yuji Okada quote researcher Hirofumi Kawachi as saying, “If oil stays above $100 a barrel in years ahead, it may be worth trying this unique technique.”

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Now that people can no longer afford to drive their SUVs, many of them are buying bikes. This could also help control overpopulation!

In Wired.com, Leander Kahney quotes bike store owner Kevin Menard as saying, “The gas prices are the best thing that ever happened to cycling. I hope they go up even more.”Kahney quotes bike industry CEO Rich Kelly as saying, “While the economy is really sketchy right now, it’s not for the bike industry.”

He quotes bike advocate Tim Blumenthal as saying, “[Biking] bucks the general economic trends. There doesn’t seem to be many businesses that are thriving, but the bike business is doing very well.”

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Dreamland’s resident psychic medium Marla Frees has had some truly mind-bending encounters with animal spirits, including some that belong to her own beloved pets. So she’s the perfect interviewer for Dawn Baumann Brunke, the author of Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions, a highly unusual and profound exploration of the deep and largely unexplored spiritual connection between us and the animals we love, the ones we eat, and the ones who are going extinct.

Dawn?­s website is Animalvoices.net.

Marla Frees?­ website is MarlaFrees.com.

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Anne Strieber is a cat person, and she takes her cat ghosts seriously, and so does Dawn Baumann Brunke, an Alaskan with a love for and deep understanding of animals. Here, they talk about their personal animal companions in a way that is calculated to warm your heart while it also inspires your interest in the mystery of animal-human communication. Later in the interview, they get into a very deep and unusual discussion of just how our minds and even our souls are changed by the animals we eat. This will forever change your understanding of ?you are what you eat.?

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