Apparently, comedian Bill Maher (pictured here) plans to use his talents and stature as a celebrity to identify and remove “the worst member of Congress.” Though there are dozens of excellent candidates, I suppose I would nominate Jim Inhofe, (R, …
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What’s the Future for Synthetic Fuels?
Wondering about the validity of synthetic fuels? I’m talking about liquid hydrocarbon fuels created from hydrogen (from electrolyzed water) plus carbon (from point sources of CO2 ) plus excess energy from off-peak wind (or off-peak anything else). I know you’ll …
The Sierra Club, Fracking, and Really Good Writing
I don’t know what percentage of our readers here are on the Sierra Club’s email lists, but let me tell you something: they write really well. I get something at least a few times a week, and I’m always impressed …
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Notes on an Ideal Civilization
Last night, a friend of mine sent me a considerable laundry list of things he thinks everyone, certainly all U.S. citizens, are entitled to as basic human rights. I don’t know. I see providing all this stuff gratis to a …
Biofuels: What’s Really Driving Food Prices?
Anyone who pays even casual attention to the biofuels industry has come across the “food versus fuel” argument, i.e., that the rise in biofuels comes at the expense of the world fuel supply. But as shown in this article: “What’s …
Renewable Energy "Industry" Achievements for 2012
The people at ACORE, the American Council on Renewable Energy totally “get it.” Below is a reprint of part of their piece, “Renewable Energy Industry Achievements for 2012.” In case it’s not obvious, the operative word here is “industry.” ACORE …
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Electric Transportation: Short-Term Challenges, Long-Term Promise
I wrote a piece yesterday about the struggles of Project Better Place, the attempt to sell large populations of car drivers on the concept of adopting electric vehicles, and paying a certain price per mile driven, using leased batteries that, …
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Honoring Our Soldiers By Keeping Them Safe
As we pay our respects to America’s fallen soldiers this Memorial Day, let’s take a moment and remember what put so many of them in harm’s way in the first place: our dependence on oil. While we’re at it, let’s …
Being on Big Oil’s Radar Screen — Is That Good?
Duke Brooks (old friend from school forty years ago) comments on my piece about the Koch brothers’ sponsorship of PBS’s NOVA: “I have heard that the Koch brothers speak very highly of you, by the way.” Ha! You’re kidding, of …
From Guest Blogger Iannick Gagnon — Oil: The First Shock (1859-1865)
This article is submitted with the hope that it will set the tone for a series of others that will follow by covering the origins of the petroleum industry in the United States. The main objective of these pieces is …
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