Energy Discussions

A false choice between food or fuel? Many states mandate the use of ethanol in their gasoline. What happens during a year of poor crop yield? While the effects may be muted during times of good harvests, what will the world do when harvests are poor? Grain used to feed more cars than people By Dan Jones | 01/25/10 - 16:49 In th...

Hugo Chavez is sure that God and Nature are on his side, and will cause rain to fall in a timely manner "because God is a Bolivarian" like Chavez pretends to be. Never mind that Simon Bolivar was exactly NOT a dictator-for-life like Hugo, nor was he even remotely socialist or Statist. Quite the opposite of the thug ...

Sometimes problems get amplified to the point where the phrase, "the emperor has no clothes" needs to uttered. Can you explain why Iran would prefer nuclear energy over solar energy? Can you explain why the United States has never used the solar energy line of reasoning to get Iran to back off of Nuclear Energy? If Solar ...

"It's always in the last place you look." - Rosanne Rosannadanna May she rest in peace! And it's so true, on so many levels, like the aphorism "Even a blind hog roots up an acorn now and then." And so we find gems still appearing, from time to time, in the New York times, that most MainSt...

After Hibernating Through the Winter, Doomsday Gore Shows Up, Mad as Hell, and Still Screaming, Global Warming is Real For those of you who may be interested, Albert Gore has come out of hibernation with an article in the NY Times in which he attempts to defend himself against recent worldwide attacks on his "global warming&...

I would allow these cars on the car pool lanes. Imagine zipping to work in your little four wheel scooter while the other lanes are wasting fuel and getting to work late. If you check out the final picture, it cracks me up how this little car is leading the pack and does not have its lights on, but every car behind it does. At least...

A new generation of electric cars is close to being a reality. They will reduce our dependency on foreign oil thus saving us from being held hostage by the politics of the Middle East and other oil producing countries. But, as always, the reality behind the technology has not been fully thought through. While they are projected to ...

If the seas aren't boiling from Global Flatulence, my blood sure is. I am SO sick of the well-connected to whatever Political Correctness of the Day is in force escaping jail and fines for far more than any of us would suffer it makes me MAD. Scientists broke the law by hiding climate change data: But legal loophole means the...