Have you had your Blue Juice today?

This time of year, it's nearly impossible to navigate on the roads without constantly rinsing the salt spray off the windshield, and that takes Blue Juice.

At the gas station, I had to do a double take on the price! $2.99 a gallon! The upgrade Purple stuff was another buck more. It turns out that there's a world-wide shortage of methanol, the ingredient that keeps it from freezing in your car, and helps it to evaporate off the windshield.

Is it too late to get President Bush and the neo-cons to come up with a plan to invade the nation responsible for this debacle? We wouldn't have far to go, it's Canada. The Vancouver-based company that makes much of the world's methanol -- the main ingredient in windshield washer fluid -- has had to curtail production in Chile. The company is having trouble getting natural gas, another key ingredient, from neighbouring Argentina because the country has imposed a hefty export tax. Prices of $6.00 a gallon could be a reality very soon. Time to stock up, a lot.