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  • Obama's Green Promise
    I am a conservative environmentalist. We have composted our household garbage for more than 30 years. I rode a bicycle to and from work for the last 19 years before retirement. We installed a solar water heater 6 years ago and it is saving us about $50 a month in electricity. I am studying a solar-electric installation for our house.I understand that Senator John Kerry has an $8,600 dollar hand made bike but I haven't seen him ride it to work.My paranoid suspicion is that the radical enviros wanted an energy crisis which is why they have opposed every rational attempt to remedy the situation. This is going to backfire on them badly. Obama has called Canadian tar sands crude "dirty oil". Well, the Chinese and others will be more than happy to take that "dirty crude" off the Canadians hands. I predict that an Obama presidency, combined with Pelosi and Reid in Congress will be having people wistfully saying: "Gee, I miss George Bush" (and I am no Bush fan!). Sara Palin is being attacked by Democrat spokesmen for a lack of administrative experience (small town mayor, two years as a governor) what a laugh...Sara has MORE administrative experience than the other three men in this race combined!!!
    Aug 31 13:59 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Forget $100 a Barrel - Oil Will Plummet to $30
    Methinks Mr. Schwarz has been drinking the fermented Koolaid. If the market price for a barrel of oil falls to $30, you can forget about any crude from Tar Sands, not just Canada, but elsewhere.Heavy oil is equally costly to produce. If oil drops much below $100, OPEC will cut back conventional production. The alternative sources of energy he cites seem to me to be at least two decades away, regardless of St. Obama and Mother Pelosi. Electricity created by wind in North Dakota must suffer transmission loss before folks in Chicago can use it.( I am an indirect investor in wind power and other sources, by the way). Having ridden in natural gas powered vehicles in the Netherlands, NG certainly seems to be an alternative. But there are real costs attached to all these alternatives. Curiously, the author did not mention coal to liquids, a well established, on-the-shelf technology.
    Aug 16 13:03 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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