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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; energy</title>
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		<title>Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described &#8220;oilfield trash&#8221; who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Armies of the Obsolete</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling &#124; website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comprehensive Energy Policy Emerging</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/comprehensive-energy-policy-emerging/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/comprehensive-energy-policy-emerging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBDPerhaps we are making progress.]]></description>
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		<title>A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi&#8217;s opera Nabucco &#8211;the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance&#8211; the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Hits Back. Hard.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/mccain-hits-back-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/mccain-hits-back-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain, in an interview with Brian Williams on Sarah Palin: “The facts are funny things. She’s been in elected office longer than Sen. Obama. She’s been the chief executive of the state that provides 20 percent of America’s energy; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/mccain-hits-back-hard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving McCain</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/evolving-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/evolving-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cited Victor Davis Hanson&#8217;s NRO post earlier in an easy defense of Palin, but there&#8217;s another point therein worth mention: Palin as agent of change for McCain, personally. On energy, [Sarah Palin] will either blunt McCain&#8217;s unreasonable opposition to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/evolving-mccain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Loss of Democratic Self-Awareness</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/a-loss-of-democratic-self-awareness/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/a-loss-of-democratic-self-awareness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rather amusing to see the ticket lacking in any executive experience, with a presidential nominee of extremely limited elected experience, attempting to attack McCain&#8217;s vice presidential nominee on grounds of inexperience. Reeling a bit perhaps. A more mature Democratic &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/a-loss-of-democratic-self-awareness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Energy &#8211; A &#8220;Uniting&#8221; Issue</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/energy-a-uniting-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/energy-a-uniting-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powerline&#8220;In yesterday&#8217;s radio address, John McCain talked about how the energy issue unites foreign and domestic policy&#8221;. Exactly right. Energy is more than a Green issue or a Carbon Footprint issue. It is intrinsically linked to our survival.]]></description>
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		<title>The Vandalism of Russian Occupation</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/the-vandalism-of-russian-occupation/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/the-vandalism-of-russian-occupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceasefire be damned,* the Russian army reportedly destroyed the Metekhi-Grakali railway bridge. The bridge was used by Georgian refugees fleeing the mayhem in the Russian occupied zones given that the highway is controlled by the Russian army, which has naturally &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/the-vandalism-of-russian-occupation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Anwar</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/the-beauty-of-anwar/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/the-beauty-of-anwar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notice what drilling is doing to the wildlife.]]></description>
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		<title>Siloviki</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much of the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russian conflict can be laid at the hands of a corrupt cabal of former soviet ministers bent on lining their own pockets? Perhaps a great deal. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has handed his Russian counterpart, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore and Friends</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/28/an-inconvenient-truth-for-al-gore-and-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/28/an-inconvenient-truth-for-al-gore-and-friends/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We can address our energy needs</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/we-can-address-our-energy-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just not the way we are doing it now.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Madness</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/stop-the-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/stop-the-madness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Cubic Mile of Oil</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/a-cubic-mile-of-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Green Tech we get some figures that should be rather sobering for those who wish for alternative energy to be a significant source of energy in the near future: Put another way, we&#8217;d need to equip 250,000 roofs &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/a-cubic-mile-of-oil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Get To That Wind Farm Application &#8211; Eventually</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/well-get-to-that-wind-farm-application-eventually/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/well-get-to-that-wind-farm-application-eventually/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/well-get-to-that-wind-farm-application-eventually/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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