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  • GM: Producing Cars (And Losses) Nobody Wants

    Published September 10, 2012

    We should get away from fossil fuels -- perhaps it is a bridge of natural gas to electric or hydrogen -- however, we will never know as long as our government is willing to make a political move to subsidize a car that loses money and that few want.

  • How About Focusing on Energy Ideas that Actually Work

    Published September 07, 2012

    Every president since Richard Nixon has said he will get us off of foreign oil -- they have all fallen way short.

  • Don't Tinker with Spending, Overhaul It

    Published August 24, 2012

    If you canceled all government salaries, the entire U.S. Armed Forces and all expenses associated with them, along with anything the government funds as part of its current operations -- we still would not have a balanced budget.

  • Faced with Crisis, Congress Walks

    Published August 17, 2012

    The fiscal cliff and what will really happen when it is reached is actually not the biggest thing in the news this week. 

  • The 2012 Election: Lesser of Two Evils?

    Published August 10, 2012

    We have two candidates for president and America would rather have ‘none of the above’. We have a Congress that America, except for a single-digit percentage, would like to ‘throw out’.

  • Worst Congress Ever

    Published August 03, 2012

    Our politicians have the unique ability to create a problem and a system -- and then run against the very problem and system they have created.

  • Wasted Energy: Our Failure to Plan

    Published July 27, 2012

    We have the most futile Congress in history -- a national energy policy, if done correctly and adhered to, is something even they can’t mess up. 

  • Inflection Point in the Middle East

    Published July 23, 2012

    Iran is about to be forced to choose between a couple of different economic decisions that could have widespread implications.

  • We're No. 1! (In Taxes)

    Published April 06, 2012

    Congratulations to the United States -- we now have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

  • A U.S. Energy Policy? Don't Plan on It

    Published March 23, 2012

    The left doesn’t want fossil fuels and the right says ‘drill, baby, drill’. Neither has an energy plan deeper than their bumper sticker slogans.