You forgot one of the biggest Petrocracies immediately to your north ;-)   It would be nice to see prices put the tar sands genie back in the bottle for a bit before our governments wholesales all of the resource to China.

Seems to me that a landlord is a good source of information and in a position to witness the collection of chemical bottles, ammunition stock piles, etc.

We would mention a few things about Real estate he would pop bottles of wine we would sit around and have some nice Napa cab and shoot the bull for way longer than we should..

Eat a 25 dollar hamburger and uncork a 400 bottle of wine.

Even if its a bottle of water.

The people mowing the grass kept hitting whiskey bottles and beer cans scattered all over the yard and hidden in the tall grass.What kind of treasures have you found in foreclosed/abandoned houses?

One of my favorites was to carry a bottle of rubber cement with me and put them where I could.

There were empty pizza boxes stacked all the way to the ceiling and every bit of counter space was empty rum bottles.

I will probably have a couple bottles of cold water to give you...

Think about bottled water.