Ten years ago, I did a lot of investing into individual stocks. While my investing these days is mostly limited to mutual funds, one thing that always attracted me was when a company bought back […]
Author: Robert Rapier
When Governments Dictate Gas Prices
This is what can happen: Queues resurface as Zimbabwe runs out of fuel APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Long fuel queues have resurfaced in Zimbabwe as filling stations ran out of petrol following a government directive to reduce […]
Oil Prices Up, Gasoline Down
From the Dallas Morning News: Jul. 9–Consumers watching the news about soaring crude oil prices normally would expect to pay for those increases at the pump. But since May, that has not been the case. […]
What It Takes to Be Carbon Neutral
A popular newspaper in Scotland, The Scotsman, has detailed what it will take for Britain to be carbon neutral within 20 years. I have said before that despite Al Gore’s pleas, despite the awareness and […]
Hot Gas Issue Heating Up
Several people have asked me about this recently, and it has been in the news quite a bit, so this is a good time for an update. I have previously written 2 essays on the […]
Expropriating Venezuela’s Refineries
You heard it here first. Two months ago, I wrote Let’s Confiscate Venezuela’s U.S. Refineries. Looks like I may not have been too far off the mark, as others have started thinking along the same […]
What a Return Trip to Scotland
Off topic, but on June 30th my family and I flew from Dallas back to the U.K. We had a connecting flight at Gatwick in London, and then we were to fly on to Aberdeen. […]
America’s Energy IQ
I already knew that the general population has a poor understanding of energy issues. For that matter, politicians have a poor understanding as well, which is why we find ourselves burdened with irresponsible energy policies. […]
Energy Policy Insanity
Just enough quiet time this morning (still suffering jet lag and waking up at 4 a.m.) to knock out an essay. I told my daughter last night that I plan to keep writing, but I […]
Coal and Ethanol
A Lightbulb Uses a Lot of Coal Just a very quick post today while still on vacation in the U.S. I was browsing around the other day, and I ran across this: How much coal […]