Dec
22
Is It Time to Pop The Iranian Nuclear Pimple?
December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
Oil is abundant again; some reports have it that OPEC alone has 6 million barrels a day of spare unused oil capacity. Iraq, which has some sort of exemption to sell all it can, and Venezuela, which is selling on the cheat are pushing the price lower along with the U.S. Federal Reserve expressing some [...]
Dec
8
CO2 Kills With Every Breath Says US EPA
December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
If even there was a more stupid result the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said ‘greenhouse gases’, “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people” and that the pollutants, albeit mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Given free reign from the U.S. Supreme Court, [...]
Sep
2
Angry Yet? Obama Finances Oil Exploration Off Brazil
September 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
Presidential advisor James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about lending billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. No joke, the loan been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.
Angry [...]
Aug
28
Easier Breathing on Oil Supplies
August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
The leftists must be furious; Hillary Clinton has issued the Presidential Permit on August 20, 2009 that Enbridge needs to ship Canadian oil sand’s upgraded crude into the U.S. With a war under way over public perceptions packed with dis and misinformation swirling about, this news must stick in the shouting throats. This writer is [...]
Aug
25
Cutting Off The Head To Spite A Face
August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
I usually pass on studies that are sourced specifically by an industry to make their point, seeking rather to use academic works. Also on the miss list are those dumbfounding government projections. But the American Petroleum Institute, granted the central megaphone for independent big oil, has a better than average record, particularly when the work [...]
Jul
27
Taking From You Giving to Others With Cap & Trade
July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Whether you harbor a” cap and trade” or the “cap and tax” label for the carbon targeted by the activists in control now of governments, uncertainty is the prime result. That uncertainty is followed, if not mixed, with a great deal of mistrust. It’s not lost on those with lifetimes of work and investment in [...]
Jun
30
A Bump On the CO2 Road to Hell
June 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
On June 25th the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a draft copy of the suppressed EPA report by EPA employee Alan Carlin. Carlin is critical of the EPA’s position on carbon dioxide saying, “The released report is a draft version, prepared under EPA’s unusually short internal review schedule, and thus may contain inaccuracies which were [...]
Jun
23
It’s Time to Hurry to Get That New Car
June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Last Thursday saw the Senate pass the Cash for Gas Guzzlers bill inside the war funding bill. It’s a near certainty that President Obama will sign it into law. So, its time to look and see if the cash will apply to you and whether or not you can get it done in time. There [...]
Jun
4
Ready to Kill People – It’s Not the Food vs. Fuel Fight
June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
A local village chief of the Parakana people in the Amazon basin of Brazil said, “If the government don’t find a solution we will solve it ourselves. We know how to make poison arrows and we are ready to kill people.”
One might think it’s about the food vs. fuel fight, but its not, like the [...]
May
19
Cap And Trade Becomes Transfer of Wealth
May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
The swindle of the decade called Cap and Trade, which is a dopey idea to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, has regressed into common transferring of wealth from some to everyone else. Or as Jack Gerard at the American Petroleum Institute put it on May 15th, “. . . its inequitable system of allocations will have [...]
