An increase in the amount of ethanol in your gasoline won’t hurt your lawnmower…if it’s a push-reel. Otherwise be prepared for big repair bills.
Read moreToday’s announcement that engineering and construction giant Bechtel will join forces with Babcock & Wilcox to build modular nuclear reactors is a big deal.
Read moreWe live in the age of video. As a writer, particularly one who writes books, that fact is rather painful. But the reality is that television, and increasingly, video on the Internet – think YouTube, Hulu, etc. – is the dominant medium of our time.
Read moreTony Hayward’s lips were moving but all I could hear was Ken Lay.
Read moreWith each passing day, as more news reports explain what happened aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the hours before the accident, it becomes ever clearer that BP’s mismanagement of the Macondo well was responsible for the disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read moreBack in 2006, George W. Bush declared that the US is “addicted to oil.” Since then, that phrase has been repeated ad nauseum by politicos on both the Left and the Right.
Read moreRichard Nixon had an enemies list. And now, so, too, do the corn ethanol scammers.
Read moreThe oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provides a near-perfect onshore platform for political demagoguery.
Read moreThe most disgusting aspect of the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the video images of oil-soaked birds or the incessant blather from pundits about what BP or the Obama administration should be doing to stem the flow of oil.
Read moreNothing. That’s the single most important step that can be taken right now to combat climate change.
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