I've been following various articles in my local newspaper and local television "news," looking for some recognition of the seriousness of the problem with soaring energy prices. This problem is entirely predictable by reference to the simple economic relationship between supply and demand. We've got a finite diminishing supply of…
There's a lot of bad information floating around on the Internet. For instance, many conservatives blame environmental regulations, but this argument is way off base. Why? Because 75% of the cost of gasoline is in the cost of the crude oil, not in the refining. At Salon.com, Andrew Leonard spells…
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Scientific American has just published a comprehensive article on how to switch the United States substantially over to sunlight. The headline: "By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions." The cost of this immense clean-energy-producing plan would be $420 billion. That's a HUGE…
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recently made the strange decision to reject 50,000 free DVDs of Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. At Huffpo, Laurie David asks whether it: just might - have had anything to do with more than six million dollars the organization has accepted…