Could'a Knocked Me Over With a Feather .....

Considering how fast and how high the cost was rising, is anybody out there REALLY surprised by this report that the U.S. Department of Energy officially quashed the $1.8-billion FutureGen project slated for central Illinois, leaving the experimental venture to Congress for survival. Mlost of you will remember that speculation over this very development was circulating in both the actual and the virtual worlds even before the final selection of a project site, last month.