Category Archives: energy

Mr Bad Example

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Keith_Indy

Isn’t there an energy crisis or something that we all have to worry about? Guess, we can just call him “Mr Bad Example,” and be done with it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=2&ref=politics?xid=rss-page The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on … Continue reading →

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How to Show Off Your Conservation Credentials

Posted on January 14, 2009 by ChrisB

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) decided he wanted to show off how green he was by driving an electric car being developed in his district to his swearing in at the Capitol in D.C. Of course no electric car actually has … Continue reading →

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Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Lee

I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described “oilfield trash” who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready … Continue reading →

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Environmental Incoherence

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lance

Pelosi says, “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.” Charles Krauthammer points out the incoherence of this: Does Pelosi imagine that with so much of America declared off-limits, the planet is less injured as drilling … Continue reading →

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An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore and Friends

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Lance

I know that many of you think that global warming, at least anthropogenic global warming, is a fraud. I am not so sure. Either way though, I think Peter Huber has the broad contours of any attempt to address it … Continue reading →

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Is The Evidence In On Minimum Wage?

Posted on June 9, 2008 by MichaelW

When the most recent unemployment numbers were released, the media bleated about the highest percentage increase in the jobless rate since 1986. For example, The New York Times lamented: The unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May from 5 … Continue reading →

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Where Do Most of Our Problems Come From?

Posted on May 21, 2008 by ChrisB

From Congress and the unintended consequences of their actions. Bruce over at QandO has a post discussing an excellent piece by Walter Williams. Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created … Continue reading →

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Backdoor Kyoto — The Next Chapter

Posted on May 15, 2008 by MichaelW

The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should … Continue reading →

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The Other Credit Shoe Drops

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Keith_Indy

If being upside down on your mortgage isn’t bad enough, consider how many people are into large pickups and SUVs for more then they are worth. And now with gas prices climbing they want to get out of them. The … Continue reading →

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And Pigs Will Fly…

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Keith_Indy

Hmmm, oil states controlling production to just barely meet 35.6% of supply so they can keep prices high. That’s bad. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_OPEC_can_no_longer_be_a_cartel.html “We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that … Continue reading →

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Stop the Madness

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Peg

Sooner rather than later. And this: Perhaps turning food into transportation fuel would make sense if massive amounts of grain spoiled every year from a lack of demand, but that certainly isn’t the case. Farmers love the higher prices that … Continue reading →

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I’m with Senator Obama

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Peg

At least on this topic. Economists in general oppose a tax holiday because it would encourage consumption of gasoline at a time of soaring demand. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, a longtime Republican donor, criticized Sen. McCain’s policy in an … Continue reading →

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Abiogenic Oil

Posted on April 21, 2008 by MichaelW

Hoystory poses a thought-provoking question with potentially dramatic consequences for the concept of “peak oil”: What if “fossil fuels” weren’t made of fossils at all? What if the earth naturally made petroleum? What if gasoline was a renewable resource? Imagine … Continue reading →

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The Air Car

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Lance
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Cuba Lifts Ban on Computers, Other Electronics

Posted on March 14, 2008 by ChrisB

The Cuban government has lifted the ban on computers, dvd players, television sets, which were already on sale, electric pressure cookers and rice cookers, electric bicycles, car alarms and microwave ovens. It seems the move was allowed because of improving … Continue reading →

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Blood For Oil

Posted on February 11, 2008 by MichaelW

Joseph Kennedy II supports blood for oil. In recent months, my TV has been bombarded with ads from Joe Kennedy promoting his Citizens Energy program, such as the following: The heating oil distributed by Citizens Energy comes from Venezuela on … Continue reading →

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We’ll Get To That Wind Farm Application – Eventually

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Keith_Indy

And by eventually, they mean decades down the road. This is a perfect example of government getting in the way of the innovation we need to dig ourselves out of our fossil fuel dependency. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1362/1/ If you want to build … Continue reading →

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