Foreign Oil
Who Says Main Street Isn’t Getting A Bailout?
Quit your whining and get on down to your local General Motors dealer. That’s where you’ll find your bailout money. They’ll loan it back to you–cheap!
December 30, 2008 | Read More
Tar Pit: Oil Addiction And Denial
Some wise words on our energy policy … 37 years ago.
December 22, 2008 | Read More
A Deserving Victim Of The Crash
An AP article out yesterday says that many ethanol plants, which have popped up like warts in the last few years, are being shuttered. Good riddance.
October 9, 2008 | Read More
One Last Orgy Of Profits
The same bunch of bunko artists who brought us the current financial meltdown had a major hand in making a tank of gas cost as much as dinner out at La Folie.Playing Chicken Little about the Far East and increased demand was a convenient self-fulfilling prophecy for them. They and their puppets in the media kept shouting about prices going up and up and, lo and behold, prices did go up. A lot. Now they’re crashing. Coincidence?
October 8, 2008 | Read More
Kill the Corn Ethanol Boondoggle
Corn-belt states like Iowa and Nebraska and agribusiness giants like Archer-Daniels-Midland love ethanol. They make billions from it. Much of that money comes directly from taxpayers in the form of subsidies.
All that cash might be worth it if ethanol actually did something significant to solve global warming or end our reliance on foreign oil. But it does neither. Even if every acre of corn grown in America went to make ethanol, it would only fill a small fraction of our oil needs. And it takes so much energy to produce a gallon of corn-based fuel that it barely decreases greenhouse…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
A Moon Shot over Manhattan Project to Solve our Energy Crisis
Over the course of our recent history, the U.S. government has engineered two enormous scientific successes. The first was the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the atom bomb. The second, launched by NASA, was the space program, which took human beings to the moon for the first time. It’s time for a third massive undertaking on the scale of these historic triumphs to end our reliance on foreign oil. The only long term, sustainable solution to the problem is a massive investment in renewable energy.
We need to put someone in office who doesn’t think in the old either-or ways when…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
