All Posts Tagged With: "Energy"
Turning Boom into Bust By Alan Caruba
There is also something called “the curse of oil” because, if the price per barrel drops, the fate of some nations goes with it. This is the case, for example, of the former Soviet Russia whose government collapsed when it could no longer secure hard currency when oil and gas prices fell. Venezuela is an economic basket case these days, having nationalized oil and most of its financial and business sectors.
Let’s Go Nuclear By Alan Caruba
How do you know when a Green—hardcore environmentalist—is lying to you? When his lips are moving. Okay, it’s a cliché used in other cases as well, but it is especially true when the latest absurd claim comes flying at you courtesy of the mainstream media.
States & Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumers By Alan Caruba
If you believe that the use of these energy sources are producing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (C02) and other greenhouse gases that will doom the Earth, than surely the purchase of—and I kid you not—“pollution credits” to somehow curb global warming is worth the expense.
Why Americans Can’t Get U.S. Oil By Alan Caruba
Aside from the fact the Democrats in Congress are trying to fool Americans into believing they are “lifting” the ban on off-shore exploration and drilling for oil, the opposition to our domestic oil companies by both Democrats and radical environmental groups lies at the heart of why America is so dependent on foreign oil.
Who Are You Calling Stupid? By Alan Caruba
If you read as much of the blather turned out by media folk like the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman and others, you begin to see certain themes emerge.
They don’t like humanity much.
One of their great concerns is population growth and, in concert with the use of various sources of energy, all the problems that come from too many people competing for food, water, and that parking space you want.
Democrat Deceptions about Oil By Alan Caruba
Lost amidst the many speeches delivered at the Democrat Convention was one by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. He is the Senate Majority Leader and, as such, controls the legislative agenda in that upper house of Congress. Harry Reid hates oil, but then, so does the Democrat Party.
The reason this nation is held hostage to other oil producing nations is that the Democrats, going back to President Jimmy Carter, have waged war on the American oil industry.
How NOT to Have Electricity By Alan Caruba
Electricity is so commonplace that no one gives any thought to not having access to it. Few give any consideration to how it is generated, but we are now being inundated with the most virulent nonsense about how wind or solar power is “clean” and practically “free.” Every week there’s some new proposal to cover the nation with wind farms and solar panels.
11Aug2008 | Alan Caruba | 0 comments | ContinuedAre These People Stupid, Nuts or Both? By Alan Caruba
There are two states on opposite sides of the nation where, if something really stupid can be proposed, they represent the most fertile ground. I speak, of course, of New Jersey and California.
I happen to know a lot more about New Jersey since I am born, raised, and still residing here in my old age [...]
Fallout from the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Part 3) - The Nuclear Option By Diane M. Grassi
In this third chapter of this ongoing discussion and analysis of United States energy policy and its ramifications both realized directly and indirectly from the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, (EPAct 2005) it would be irresponsible not to include U.S. nuclear energy policy in such analysis.
As such, the EPAct 2005 and its previously referenced [...]
A World Afloat on an Ocean of Oil By Alan Caruba
Considering how much untapped oil is known to exist, not just in the United States, but worldwide, one would think that its current price was some kind of anomaly and it is. It is more the result of speculation than anything else.
The most fundamental fact about oil worldwide is that there is lots of it. [...]
I Am Voting Democrat By John Kakistos Lillpop
After two years of listening to and watching hundreds of debates and town hall meetings, I have finally reached a conclusion.
I am voting Democrat because:
Soaring prices at the gas pump will ultimately squash demand, thereby reducing global warming;
Drilling for oil in Alaska is an immoral, preventable form of animal abuse;
Paying $10 or more a gallon [...]
Why Can’t McCain Say “Oil”? By Alan Caruba
While grabbing a bite to eat for lunch, I turned on the television and MSNBC was broadcasting live a presentation John McCain was making somewhere. He does well in these relatively unscripted events, but when he got to the topic of the price of gasoline and how to reduce current and future pain at the [...]
11Jun2008 | Alan Caruba | 0 comments | ContinuedMexico is Soon to be a Bigger Problem By Alan Caruba
As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance [...]
26May2008 | Alan Caruba | 0 comments | ContinuedCongressional Attack Dogs Bark Up Wrong Tree! By Doug Edelman
Once again, in response to constituent outcry over gasoline prices, Oil Company executives have been hauled before Congress to get their posteriors ripped into by self-serving grandstanding Senators.
Senator Leahy went so far as to question the salary of the execs – as if this was in some way relevant.
But these self-appointed watchdogs are barking up [...]
From the Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia By Alan Caruba
When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding principle and economic system simply imploded. That’s the [...]
27Apr2008 | Alan Caruba | 0 comments | ContinuedFallout from The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Part 2) By Diane M. Grassi
As discussed in Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the United States federal government is taking a more and more integral role in the distribution and transmission of electricity and in the energy sector throughout the U.S. And such is the result of both federal regulations and laws mandating the deregulation of public utilities as well as the repeal of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act (PUHCA) of 1935, as mandated in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005).
27Mar2008 | Diane M. Grassi | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Is Everyone Lying About Energy? By Alan Caruba
In early March, President Bush, addressing an International Renewable Energy Conference, was widely quoted saying that the United States has to “get off oil.” Earlier he had said that America was “addicted” to oil. These are such huge lies one wonders why he is telling them, unless perhaps he has quietly been investing in ethanol [...]
19Mar2008 | Alan Caruba | 0 comments | ContinuedCongress Conjures Up an Energy Deficit By Alan Caruba
Let’s understand a simple fact. You cannot squeeze any more energy out of a gallon of gasoline than already exists. If you mix it with an additive which itself provides less energy, what you get is less energy.
So, when Congress passed a so-called energy bill in mid-December that demanded more “fuel efficiency” by a measure [...]
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