David Kirsch knows the history of electric cars as well as anyone in America. His book, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History, published in 2000, has become one of the key reference sources on the subject.
Read moreThe ethanol scammers have no shame. None. And neither does the ethanol industry’s new flack, General Wesley Clark.
Read moreOkay, I get it. Carbon dioxide is bad. It’s a pollutant. Thus, based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed finding on greenhouse gases, everyone is now a polluter.
Read moreI met Ake Almgren in early April after getting a tour of International Battery’s manufacturing plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania. International Battery is an oddity: the company has imported machinery and technology from China, and has begun using that machinery and technology to build batteries here in the U.S.
Read moreBack in 1951, during a speech to Congress, General Douglas MacArthur famously declared that “old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” Alas, if only if only that were true for General Wesley Clark, who continues to haunt American voters and consumers.
Read moreThe recurring lesson emerging from the corn ethanol scam is this: too many mandates and subsidies are probably worse than none at all. Evidence of that can be found by looking at Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, the Illinois-based ethanol producer.
Read moreSave the outrage: The news that Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama’s top economic advisor, collected a total of $7.7 million from hedge funds and Wall Street outfits in 2008 shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Read moreFor years, ethanol boosters have promised Americans that “cellulosic” ethanol lurks just ahead, right past the nearest service station.
Read moreAmerica depends on cheap abundant energy. But over the past few years, and particularly over the past few months, it appears that Congress is hellbent on making energy scarce and expensive.
Read moreIn May 2007, I did a Q&A with Roger Pielke, Sr. a professor emeritus of meteorology at Colorado State University who is now a senior scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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