Tag: energy
member name: Bert B.
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May 30, 2006 12:54 AM EDT --
Today I read that GM is offering a debit card to buyers of its gas-guzzler vehicles. This deal is for California buyers only. California has the highest gas prices in the nation, and GM hopes . . .
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March 27, 2008 02:41 PM EDT --
On our recent trip to Australia and New Zealand, we were unhappy to learn that domestic flights in New Zealand had severe weight restrictions…only one piece of checked luggage is allowed, maximum . . .
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July 18, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
A man named Elbert Hubbard published a book in 1910 called "A Little Journey to the Homes of the Great." The book is a series of interviews with the intellectual giants of that time, and . . .
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July 22, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
A man named John Kanzius has announced that he can “burn” salt water by applying radio-frequency radiation to it. The media have picked this up and are proclaiming to the world that the . . .
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August 12, 2006 02:56 AM EDT --
I just finished a long, rambling article in Engineering & Science magazine, a publication of the California Institute of Technology. The article is titled "Plug In, Charge Up, Drive Off." . . .
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June 02, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
If you read the first essay with this title, you probably realized that there was a lot more to say on the subject. The first essay argued that unrestrained Capitalism was increasingly unsuited . . .
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July 10, 2008 01:25 AM EDT --
It is finally coming out…what this whole Iraqi War is about. Fadhil Chalabi, an Iraqi advisor to Bush before the invasion recently described the war as, "a strategic move on the part . . .
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June 01, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
This is the first of two articles addressing the subject of Capitalism, and how it has powered our nation from obscurity to the pinnacle of superpower status, but how it now threatens not only the future . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The Tragedy of the Commons (TOC) is not widely known or understood, except among people who have studied environmental science. The depletion of fishery stocks and whale populations are graphic . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Today, June 18 th , President Bush said that the Democrats are to blame for high oil prices. When I read this, I laughed out loud…and then I got mad.
This is truly the era . . .
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June 23, 2008 01:26 AM EDT --
In a few months, I will attend my 54 th high school reunion. I graduated from high school in 1954, barely past the midpoint of the 20 th Century. The Second World War had concluded only . . .
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June 25, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
President Bush recently tried to blame Democrats in Congress for the current runup in gasoline prices because they have blocked drilling off the coasts and in the ANWR. He failed to mention in . . .
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December 20, 2005 01:38 AM EST --
The year is 2010, and we are driving from our home in Los Angeles to San Francisco. The car we are driving is an advanced hybrid, designed to maximize efficiency without sacrificing the luxury and . . .
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March 12, 2008 01:46 AM EDT --
I have been watching the recent escalation in crude oil and gasoline prices, plus the worsening economic conditions, with a combination of horror and "I told you so."
Back in 2005, I wrote . . .
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May 24, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
It might be a bit premature, but I am already looking ahead to Obama's second term, and it occurs to me that there is a very good chance that there won't be one.
Why? The . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
Think electric car. That's a good idea. It's also the name of a new battery-powered pure electric vehicle that is in the initial production stages in Norway. Aurskog, . . .
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