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 [...]

McCain offers $300 million for a battery

Which is why we are in trouble if McCain gets elected.  I can go to the local hardware store and buy one for $1.50.
No, all kidding aside, I am very conservative, which is why I find McCain’s idea balderdash.  If there is currently the ability to come up with the next great battery, the free [...]

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 [...]

Offshore Oil Deposits- a strawman argument

In debate, there is a category known as logical fallacies, and among them is the strawman argument.  One will set up a “strawman” argument as a serious possibility to the other side’s argument, and then knock it down.  Such is the case with Offshore Oil Deposits.  Because there is such a limited supply of offshore [...]

RAND report on Oil Shale

I found this report to be very informative of the Oil Shale deposits and mining.  The following link will take you to the RAND Company site where you can download a free pdf report on Oil Shale in the United States.  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG414/
Oil Shale must be considered one of the components in our arsenal of energy [...]

Whose coast is it, anyways?

Gov. Arnold (r, but in name only) declared today ”California’s coastline is an international treasure. I do not support lifting this moratorium on new oil drilling off our coast,” the governor said in a statement after President George W. Bush called for lifting a moratorium on offshore oil drilling along the coast of California and other coastal [...]

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 [...]