According to the US Department of Energy, the greatest potential to revolutionize the transportation industry lies not within ethanol, bio-diesel, electric, or flex fuel engines but rather through hydrogen: The simplest and most abundant element in the known universe.
Versatility in production is one of the element’s greatest strengths and hydrogen comes with many options from […]

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There have been many soldiers who have died and many others who have been physically and psychically injured. My thoughts always go out to them, on more days than this one.
But I want to remember some others who have died. Every coal miner buried under tons of rock. (Over 6,000 in China […]

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I saw a blog that compared gold prices with oil prices. It was a Ron Paul related blog and so I did not dive too deeply in, but it did have one graph that showed the price of gold as compared to the price of oil. They were in lock step.
It is not […]

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I’ve been reading and listening to people discuss the whole idea of reducing overall gasoline prices by removing the gas tax for the summer travel season.
I do think it is a bunch of political talk without any basis in economics or in solving the actual problem.
Let’s look at supply and demand: As long as […]

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I had to travel out of town this week for work.
It meant I couldn’t write here the whole time. But the good news is that I got to read the New York Times delivered to my hotel room. I brought home a bunch of pages from the NY Times about alternative energy and […]

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