Renewable Energy
Electric Boogaloo: GM Promises To Build The Car It Killed
GM is promising to offer an electric car by 2010–a full 14 years after the company first started working to KILL the exact same technology.
December 4, 2008 | Read More
Fungus Fuel - And Only $2.50 A Gallon?
Several companies are racing to find a “magic mushroom” that can turn garbage into gas.
November 7, 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
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
Reason #75: Look Out Jimmy C, I’ve Got an SUV!
Jimmy Carter was serious about getting us off our oil addiction. He even had the cojones to suggest that consumers who make energy-wasting decisions should be held accountable, declaring: “Citizens who insist on driving large, unnecessarily powerful cars must expect to pay more for that luxury.” Compared to today’s watered-down political-speak, that’s one shocking statement, isn’t it?
Twenty-six years after Carter uttered those words, George W. Bush signed his Economic Stimulus Package of 2003, which awarded $100,000 in tax credits to people who purchased a 6,000 pounds-plus SUV. (A Hummer weighs around 6,400 lbs and gets ten miles to the gallon in cross-town…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Reason #68: Oil Junkies
America’s longtime energy mantra: Keep the oil flowing no matter what the cost.
When Ronald Reagan was governor of California, nothing pissed him off more than Berkeley hippies and their Vietnam protests. The Gipper despised all the tree-hugging flower children, who in turn disdained anybody in a business suit. Today, the town is still full of wild-eyed lefties, and nothing’s changed except their rallying cries: “Hell, no, we won’t go!” has been replaced by “No blood for oil!”
That slogan gets repeated a lot, and it’s tempting to write it off as hippie-dippy nonsense when the woman chanting it has hairy legs…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
