It will come as no surprise that when buyers look at the total cost of ownership for living in a particular home the utilities matter.  In some places utilities are significant parts of the monthly expense.  The mortgage principle, interest and property taxes are for many the main concern as the lenders should be watching […]

The best stimulus plans are from private investment.  Two come to mind in the energy and fuel field that have serious positive and international benefits.  They’re simply pipelines for crude oil.  The significance is in the effects. Better than government stimulus -private stimulus also has a multiplier effect without the bleeding from taxpayers. In the […]

McMoRan, a mid sized independent oil company out of New Orleans led a partnership of investors to a significant quantities of natural gas in a 5-mile-deep well it drilled in about 20 feet of water at McMoRan’s Davy Jones prospect just 10 miles off the Louisiana coast. For those not watching the close up to […]

The Doomer crowd has been talking up ‘peak oil’ for years and if one uses the price mechanism as only static, unmoving, never to go up, ‘peak oil’ could work.  But prices are going to reflect demand vs. the supply.  Each close call of demand closing on supply will get a price spike up followed […]

Toshiba of Japan has been a leader in fuel cells and last October quietly put a methanol fuel cell on the market.   Japan is well known for introducing leading technologies into their home market, so this isn’t s shock.  But it certainly is a shot across the bow of every other fuel cell market ‘want […]

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