2008-03-03

By Alan Caruba
Those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s almost universally look back on those days with great fondness. Born into an era that saw the end of the Depression and living as children through World War II, we were nonetheless somehow shielded from it by parents who took care to [...]

2008-02-29

Crude oil prices in New York rose to a new record of $102.59 on Thursday, although the figure increased even more during after hours trading. In less than a month, prices have risen $10, leading the figures to above the record highs set during the 1980s (taking inflation into account). Information provided by the International [...]

By Alan Caruba
I heard from Friends of the Earth, a huge environmental organization, who one would think would favor the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 being advanced by Senate Democrats. It would impose a cap-and-trade program to force reductions of so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
FOE, however, was wailing about the way “it lavishes up [...]

2008-02-27

There are 37 research reactors in the United States, mostly located on college campuses. Of these, 33 reactors are licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Four are operated by the Department of Energy and are located at three national laboratories. Although less powerful than commercial nuclear power reactors, research reactors may still be [...]

2008-02-26

In the New South Wales today, thousands of people joined a protest including 15 Labor Members of Parliament about the State Government’s plans to privatize the electricity industry.
The MPs included Paul Gibson, Upper House president Peter Primrose, and former MPs Kerry Hickey and Grant McBride.
Mr Gibson was reported as saying, “I’m a member of the [...]

2008-01-31

A Chinese official says harsh winter weather is threatening food production and adding to inflationary pressures. Political pressure is also building on the government for its failure to anticipate and solve the problems.
A top Chinese disaster relief official was quoted by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper Thursday as calling it the worst natural [...]

2007-12-23

The lamestream media told you:

The new energy bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush will eliminate inefficient incandescent light bulbs, create corn-made bio-fuel mixtures for 35 MPG cars, show greenhouse-gas emissions labels on vehicles, make expensive-to-buy but cheap-to-operate energy-efficient appliances, and add geothermal and other alternative energy sources in the next decade or [...]

2007-12-10

by Jim Kouri, CPP
The United States Department of Energy maintains emergency response capabilities and assets to quickly respond to potential nuclear and radiological threats in the United States. These capabilities are primarily found at DOE’s two key emergency response facilities — the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Andrews Air Force [...]

2007-12-04

Finnish company Neste Oil have announced that they intend to construct the world’s largest biodiesel plant in Singapore at a cost of €440 million. The NExBTL facility will be Neste’s third such project, and is intended to have a maximum capacity of 800,000 tonnes a year.
Demand for biofuels is expected to rise greatly over the [...]

Finnish company Neste Oil have announced that they intend to construct the world’s largest biodiesel plant in Singapore at a cost of €440 million. The NExBTL facility will be Neste’s third such project, and is intended to have a maximum capacity of 800,000 tonnes a year.
Demand for biofuels is expected to rise greatly over the [...]

2007-11-30

Global crude oil prices spiked by over US$4 per barrel yesterday after news came in that a major pipeline in Minnesota had exploded and caught fire, killing two workers. The pipeline carries oil from Saskatchewan, Canada to close to Chicago, United States, and this oil represents 16% of America’s total oil imports.
The section of the [...]

2007-11-28

In a previous blog, I wrote about how hanging one’s clothes out to dry on a clothesline is a very easy and convenient way to save energy. I’ve just read an article about how some environmentally conscious people are returning to this way of drying and clothes – and meeting opposition by people who believe [...]

2007-11-24

Here is the kind of lapse in logic that drives me crazy (no pun intended). The AP today has a story headline that just makes me cringe: “SUV plunges into canal, killing 7 people inside.” Now here is the problem, HOW did an SUV go about killing these poor people? Did it unpark itself, drive [...]

Here is the kind of lapse in logic that drives me crazy (no pun intended). The AP today has a story headline that just makes me cringe: “SUV plunges into canal, killing 7 people inside.” Now here is the problem, HOW did an SUV go about killing these poor people? Did it unpark itself, drive [...]

2007-11-08

The Contra Costa Times has given us an interesting new angle to fool the voters into voting for a new gasoline tax in an article titled, “Calling gas tax a ‘fee’ may help at ballot.” In an opinion laced article, the CCTimes is advising politicians to call the tax hike a “fee” instead of a [...]

The Contra Costa Times has given us an interesting new angle to fool the voters into voting for a new gasoline tax in an article titled, “Calling gas tax a ‘fee’ may help at ballot.” In an opinion laced article, the CCTimes is advising politicians to call the tax hike a “fee” instead of a [...]

2007-11-01

Another record has been set in crude oil prices. The price of soared past US$94.00 a barrel. New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) crude oil for December delivery closed at US$94.23 per barrel, after peaking at US$94.74, the highest price on record. In after hours trading futures have crossed over the US$95.00 per barrel mark.
On the [...]

2007-09-22

The lamestream media told you:
Hybrid gasoline/electric-battery cars promise a clean future and protection of the environment, according to leading scientists and environmentalists who have studied the issue. The government is being pressed to enact laws requiring development of the vehicles, which can be simply plugged in and recharged daily.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Experts have [...]

2007-07-08

by Jim Kouri, CPP
Oil rivals cocaine as one of Colombia’s principal exports. The Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline transports almost 20 percent of Colombia’s oil production. The pipeline originates in the Department of Arauca in northeast region of Colombia. It carries oil nearly 500 miles to the Caribbean port of Covenas. And it’s the most vulnerable [...]

2007-06-27

The lamestream media told you:
“Fueled by rapid growth in coal-reliant China, rates of carbon dioxide emission from industrial sources increased from 2000 to 2004 at a rate that is over three times the rate during the 1990s,” according to a National Academy of Sciences report covered by USA Today last month.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however [...]