How do we make sure that all Americans have a secure source of energy in the future? The question is important even if the Trump Administration answer that we ought to be mandating the use of coal and nuclear plants has more to do with politics than energy.
Where’s the problem?More...
Civil war in the swamp
The US Energy Department is following orders from President Trump to find a way to keep economically failing coal and nuclear generating plants alive and on the gri More...
Only a fool would predict commodity prices, so I’ll do that. I’ve been to Wickenburg and I know oil prices are headed down
Wickenburg’s in Arizona, a little more than an hour northwest of Phoenix. It’s on the Hassayampa River. Most of the time you can drive on the river bed, but the cotto More...
No matter whether Russian hacking was one of the decisive factors in the endgame of a close election, the best thing to do about Vladimir Putin is to defeat him. He has been successful in what I suspect was his original aim when everyone “knew” HRC was going to win: he has damaged faith in our el More...
Why are people who are passionate about saving us from the perils of global warming often found in opposition to natural gas drilling and pipelines?
If you’re worried about global warming and think we need to do something quickly, you should love natural gas. It emits 50% less CO2More...
Friday night The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a More...
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted by most of the nations in the world in 1997. Although Al Gore signed it, the US Senate never ratified it so it doesn’t bind us. However, the US is the only industrial nation to achieve the quotas established for it in the treaty. Between 1997 and 2012, the US reduce More...
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