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The Challenges of Energy Part II: Petroleum & Ecology issues
In the second part of my series on energy issues - today I want to talk about oil, Texas tea, black gold. For most of us, we see “oil” when we gas our cars - cursing I’m sure at the high price of gasoline. However, oil is must more ubiquitous than just gasoline. Oil and [...]
The Challenges of Energy Part I: Electricity
It seems like the world has run out of gas lately - doesn’t it? The supply, in the form of coal, nuclear, oil, and gas, all seems just not to be enough to satisfy our demands for energy. Although prices are fluxuating, the price of oil having dropped significantly lately, the reality is the long [...]
Weapons of Mass Destruction… in Iraq?
We all remember Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the United Nations. To critics of the Bush Administration, this speech is nothing but lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction they said, nor the precusors of such programs. Saddam was defenseless.
Let me briefly revisit one part of Secretary Powell’s speech:
Thanks to intelligence they [...]
Why is crude oil (and gasoline) so expensive?
I have been getting emails from readers essentially asking me to do a post on oil - why is it so expensive, and what, if anything should be the GOP’s party platform on energy. While energy economics is not my specialty - I do understand commodities markets, and I believe I probably understand better than [...]
Obama’s tax plan is a sham…
Barack Obama told voters yesterday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into “green energy” and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.
Speaking to about 200 people in Wayne, a Philadelphia suburb, Obama made no new [...]
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