Corn Ethanol, good news or boondogle?

I started reading what I thought might be an interesting study published by the US Ag Department in 1995, the title of which is Estimating the Net Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol.  Unfortunately, I got stuck on the Summary with the statement “Each gallon of ethanol produced domestically displaces 7 gallons of imported oil.”  I [...]

America’s untapped oil

In a recent article at CNN.com, Steven Hargreaves indicates that congressional democrats want to block additional oil leases in the gulf until oil companies have tapped out the existing leases.  However, and correct me if I am wrong, it is this same congress that does not want to remove the oil drilling embargo that has [...]

Renewable Energy Bill-

I wrote this in response to an ariticle at APP.com:
“According to Ariel Cohan, Ph.D., the bill is lacking in five major areas: Energy Sector Liberalization; Ethanol Trade Liberalization; Anti-Economic Warfare Provisions; Measures to Fight Anti-Competitive Practices; Transparency Provisions. He concluded “Threats to U.S. energy security and the international energy network have never been higher. Title [...]

What have I been telling you?!

This from Bloomberg.com “Along with lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling, Bush wants Congress to allow exploration and drilling in a portion of the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, leasing of federal lands to mine and extract oil from shale in the Green River Basin of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and accelerating [...]

Send a t-shirt to congress!

Even a t-shirt can do better than who we have there now!
No, seriously, send a t-shirt to congress and let them know that it is time to “Drill and Mine U.S. Oil–Buy and Refine U.S. Oil!”  Join you voice with the millions of others in the US that believe that energy independence and security is [...]

Again I ask “Whose to blame?”

The AP reported on Tuesday, 6/17/08, that President Bush is seeking a lifting of the moritoria on offshore drilling for oil in response to the skyrocketing gas prices.  And again, congression democrats, and a handful of republicans, seek to thwart the effort.  According to the AP “Congressional Democrats, joined by some GOP lawmakers from coastal [...]

My dog in the fight…

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I had a nice long conversation about the rising cost of fuel, and what we might be able to do about it.  We came to the conclusion that it was time to change our family website to a grassroots effort to raise our voice, and the voice [...]

Whose responsible for today’s high fuel costs?

Year
Price
 Increase 
Percent
Sen
House
Average Increase

January

1999
1.17

R 
R 

2000
1.27
 $    0.10
109%
R
R

 

2001
1.47
 $    0.20
116%
Split
R

 

2002
1.12
 $   (0.35)
76%
D 
R

 

2003
1.44
 $    0.32
129%
R
R
62%
 
 

2004
1.51
 $    0.07
105%
R
R
 
 

2005
1.82
 $    0.31
121%
R
R
 
 

2006
2.33
 $    0.51
128%
R
R
 $0.17
 $0.30

2007
2.23
 $   (0.10)
96%
D
D 
85%
 

2008
3.11
 $    0.88
139%
D
D
 

Jun-08
4.13
 $    1.02
133%
D
D
 $0.60

Source for oil prices: http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/11909967

Source for Senate and House Control Statistics: www.senate.gov