In a post I wrote just over a year ago – Peak Oil: End of the World? – I posed the following: If you think the public is outraged now, wait until gas is $10 […]
Tag: politics
An Amazing Disconnect
Why Are Oil Prices Rising? The Picture Tells the Tale (Credit to Optimist) The recent, rapid climb in oil prices has started to get everyone’s attention. In fact, when people use Google to search for […]
Redundant Ethanol Subsidies
The proposed farm bill just sent to President Bush (and expected to be vetoed) contains several ethanol provisions. One is to cut the corn ethanol subsidy from $0.51/gal to $0.45/gal. Forbes explains: Ethanol For Everyone! […]
Stop Filling the SPR?
To me, some of the most humorous ideas for relieving high oil prices are the perpetual calls to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Note what the SPR is actually for: The Strategic […]
Befuddled by Our Oil Dependence
In a different context, this might be funny: Lawmakers being forced to give up gas-guzzling cars WASHINGTON — Rep. Elton Gallegly of Simi Valley likes his taxpayer-funded Ford Expedition. He isn’t worried that it’s not […]
Hillary Panders, Bill Whines
Hillary Panders Keeping with the recent theme that our political leaders are clueless, today I ran across this gem from Hillary’s Indiana campaign: Clinton visits gas station for cameras SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Hillary Rodham Clinton, a […]
Hillary’s Stupid Energy Plan
I had intended for this, my 500th essay on this blog, to be about my recent trip to Choren’s new plant in Germany. But Hillary Clinton has just come out with a plan for high […]
An Open Letter to Our Next President
Mr. or Madam President, Vice President Dick Cheney once famously quipped “The American way of life is non-negotiable.” I submit that while our next president might not be so brash in stating this, the root […]
Please Make it Stop
The pandering, that is. First up, the presidential candidates take turns accusing each other of not having a plan for high gas prices, which the accuser of course has a neat solution for that will […]
Attempting the Impossible
I ran across the following today: Our view on gasoline prices: With crude at $100 a barrel, Big Oil needs no tax breaks It’s difficult — make that impossible — to justify taxpayer subsidies for […]