Apr

17

There is Enough of Everything For Everyone and More

April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments

Your humble writer gets a book to review once in a while.  Most don’t get finished, some are never read, but one simply stands out from all the others. “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” from Matt Ridley is one that deserves notice.  It isn’t news, but sums up, organizes and presents a view that [...]

Mar

21

Why Gasoline is Expensive

March 21, 2012 | 5 Comments

A Guest Post by Paul Driessen Edits in Italics. When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now its hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank could soon slam you for $75-$90. This winter was warm. Our [...]

Sep

9

Save While Driving For a Little More Fun

September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

For many the idea that operating a motor vehicle can be much cheaper is a non-starting idea.  Their real world experience won’t support the facts because their situation is most likely urban – or they’ll just lazy about taking care of their machines. Hypermilers, a term for those working at every inch of travel from [...]

Aug

20

The Giant International Pickpocket War

August 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

BusinessWire, a Berkshire Hathaway Company run by the famed Warren Buffet and Charles Munger has republished a press release from the Amazon Defense Coalition prepared and pushed out by Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications, a PR firm. The Hinton press release is a seriously skewed update on the Chevron side of the old Texaco pollution [...]

Jul

24

Geothermal Energy Is the Most Efficient Renewable Energy Alternative and Improves Fastest

July 24, 2009 | 5 Comments

NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling, an expert in strategic management and technology and innovation management, and Melissa Esmundo are finding that the cost of generating electricity with geothermal or wind energy is a fraction of the cost of solar energy. More importantly the performance of both is improving much more per dollar of R&D invested [...]

Jun

8

Watching the Money

June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

Global information provider New Energy Finance contracted by the UN’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative says in “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009” that $155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energycompanies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro. Even without a deep exposure of how the numbers and the criteria [...]

Feb

16

The Way to Lose Energy Jobs – Well Just Jobs

February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s been said that all politics is local. So in less than 2 years we’ll get a shot at Congress again. The question that is begging answered is the same one that always matters to mayors and county officials – how to increase the tax base. The tax base is the local payrolls, property, income, [...]

Feb

2

Addiction Economics

February 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

It’s not “voodoo economics” anymore. The U.S. Congress with an army of special interests bent on getting their losses covered by anyone other than their own capital have already cleaned the whole economy out of $700 billion and are busily setting up for spending hundreds of billions more if not more than another trillion dollars. [...]

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