Cold November Morning

I woke up before dawn today to the soft sound of rain. The weather's finally turned and outside the rain has caused the leaves to fall. My coop apartment is cold; the heat turns on according to some mysterious calculation of outside temperature compared to inside temperature, or something...

Brings me to the topic: Gas in Chicago is down to around 2.55 a gallon for regular. That's about fifty cents lower than a month ago. I read about sales of SUVs being down as a result of some kind of gas panic, and sales of hybrids correspondingly going up. Will this trend of buying gas-conservative cars continue, or like a pendulum swinging do we just return to center on our way back to the right?

I think my building is conserving on fuel this winter. Do we still have to? Is natural gas still going to be expensive? Should we conserve anyway? My knee-jerk liberal reaction is: of course conserve! My sunroom is cold however... Chingiz, what's it like in Baku?

Caroline