Monday, July 28, 2008 – 1:40 PM HASTU.S. driving falls by 9.6B miles in MayPacific Business News (Honolulu) Record gas prices and a struggling economy are forcing more people to leave their cars in the garage. Americans drove 9.6 billion
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Dr. Robert Zubrin, author of Energy Victory: Winning the War by Breaking Free of Oil, offered that single best idea to reduce the price of oil at one of the AIPAC break out sessions. Congress should require that all new
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Renaissance law student, investment enthusiast, bicycle racing junkie and fellow blogger, Douglass Ott has a thoughtful article on science referencing a law school lecture. It is illuminating when you conisder how science is debased and manipulated to achieve political ends.
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Senate Democrats failed to suspend the moratorium on shale oil development in Colorado. They still forbid oil development in Alaska and offshore. This restriction of supply for those who did not take economics 101 has the effect of increasing prices.
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….it is us. I have long admired Mark Steyn’s humorous writing style. at National Review online (see recommended sites) May 24, 2008, 8:00 a.m.Fill Her Up with Hot AirA massive suit for oil — now that’s the American way!By Mark
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from American Thinker Are 32,000 Scientists Enough to Question Global Warming ‘Consensus?‘by Marc Sheppard Excerpt There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future,
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Paul McCartney was outraged because his $168,000 eco friendly Lexus Limosine (a gift from the car manufacturer) was delivered by cargo jet from Japan instead of arriving by ship. Apparently the carbon footprint of the flight over would have negated
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The call for an excess profits tax on our oil companies is economically ignorant and dangerous. This was last tried under our worst president ever, Jimmy Carter, and it led to higher prices, and gas lines. While we all feel
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My reluctance to accept the environmental doomsday scenarios is just that so many of such scares for centuries have been proven wrong. Scare and fear sells well and just gets more print than it merits. Our environment does have problems
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John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel in 1982 wants to sue Al Gore for for fraud for his global warming pursuit. The could be the most intersting pursuit of scientific truth in a court room since the famous
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From American Thinker (see recommended sites below) January 05, 2008Global Hot Air from the BBCBy Graham Cunningham Mankind has, of course, always been subject to episodes of mass hysteria and the witch hunts that will follow in its wake. Never
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The populist notion of greedy oil companies driving (get it) up the price of oil misses the obvious. The oil is largely owned by OPEC, not Exxon Mobil. Russia and Venezuela are nationalizing oil reserves; cheap and easy oil reserves
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In college over three decades ago we used a terrific book in statistics called, “How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrell Huff. This has been more valuable to me in my post college education than any other book I can
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Getting America less dependent on foreign oil has great security implications because dollars we spend on Middle Eastern oil are going to fund radical Islamic terroristic activity, largely targeting America. Because this is relevant beyond our mere personal budgets, activists,
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from www.foxnews.com Perfectly Natural Many global warming activists point to changes in the arctic icecap as proof of the dangerous effects of man-made global warming. Now a report from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says those changes are in fact the
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John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel comments: “I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a
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Cold Water on ConsensusLomborg debunks.By Mona Charen from a review of Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, Cool It: A Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming in National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzlhZmJlM2JmMTg2ODYxNWE4YWQ2MmI5MjM1NzFjZDI= Lomborg’s book focuses on trade-offs. If we’re going to spend a
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“A review of [Fred] Thompson’s record and public statements reveals him to be a small-government conservative who has moved rhetorically rightward on social issues. He also positions himself as a defense hawk, believes Americans are safer when armed and thinks
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Penn and Teller ask environmentalists to sign a petition to ban di-hydro monoxide- water. Without lying it is described in the language of an environmentalist alarmist. check it out at You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw tips to Marty Carter
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