Drill, drill, drill.
Sounds so simple, right? If you drill, you end up with oil. And if you end up with more oil, you will drop the price, right? The reason to drill has to do more with what people think than reality. What I mean by that is the drilling will cause people to think [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Energy’
July 28, 2008
Drill, drill, drill vs. Research, tax, research
May 27, 2008
A decent tax credit: $2,500 for any car over 45 mpg
The New York Times: Running out of fuel, but not out of ideas
Okay,
Let’s start to solve the problem at the pump in the United States, and let’s do it with a very simple solution. If we offered a tax credit of $2,500 for any new car that got more than 45 miles per gallon (5.22 [...]
May 22, 2008
Turn off the lights, sell the car, and start walking
The Wall Street Journal: Energy watchdog warns of oil production crunch
The sky is falling! We are finally at peak oil according to some people in Paris. It is amazing how these people are not going to get their report out till November, but as the market is going up they just have to get the [...]
May 20, 2008
Coal can compete in a carbon-emissions market
We want to do the right thing and reduce carbon emissions. In order to do that, we have green choices like hydro, wind, and solar, and I am completely for these possibilities. However, we have a limited number of these options, and we are not going to get more of them. So, the question is, [...]
May 15, 2008
Energy independence? It’ll cost us without coal
By 2012 the Canadian government does not want any new coal-fired power plants. Strong words; for some they would be fighting words. I can understand the rationale. I can even understand the political necessity. My question is, what do you replace it with?
People talk about renewable energy, and I am a firm believer in it, [...]
