With rising oil and gas prices and growing concerns about global warming , wind is becoming an attractive alternative . The Maple Ridge project produces enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes . Other wind projects are going up all over the state . T. Boone Pickens is talking about building a $ 10 billion wind project in the Texas panhandle . Everyone , it seems , is talking about wind . Yancey understands its seduction .
Answer the following question: What may happen if oil and gas prices did not rise ?

Wind becomes less of an attractive alternative .

The two spent about two weeks in the city looking for Sandra . Going to hospitals , arguing with people , searching , searching , and searching everywhere for Sandra . My Aunt Stacey babysat us while she was away .
Answer the following question: What may be the plausbile reason Aunt Stacey was babysitting us ?

We were too young to live on our own .

The uniform 's getting a little shabby . So 's the gardener but let 's just not go there . I have a friend , let 's call him Joe because that 's actually his name , upon whose routines I could invariably set my watch . It gave me comfort , knowing that even though I was in Minneapolis hours away from him , at 8:15 in the morning he was in a certain cafe , tearing his paper apart ( sports first ) and eating his bagel in a particular way .
Answer the following question: Why would knowing that my friend Joe is going through his morning routine give me comfort ?

Because the world is unpredictable , and sometimes , knowing there is an order gives us comfort .

These days have been really odd . I ' ve been silently contemplating every single thing . In life , around me . I used to get a headache whenever I thought about so many things at one point .
Answer the following question: What may happen after I contemplate ?
I get a headache .