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After the fold is a listing of the 10 nations with the most expensive gasoline prices and the ten nations with the cheapest gasoline. And, a simple question, with a thought: Which list would you want to live in? And, what does that suggest?

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Americans United for Change has launched a campaign to Free Our Oil! While an interesting response to the Republican focus on lying to support drilling, I challenged this campaign, stating that this effort supports a quite dangerous framing of the problems and solutions.
If we make this just about gas prices, we are caught into a [...]

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Just how much of the pump price of gasoline is attributable to the war in Iraq? A dollar? Three dollars? None. That conversation recently swirled around me and, one one point, someone commented that well over half (or more than $2) of America’s $4.10 gallon of gas is due to the war. Another person asked [...]

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Just a short note, something that should not be at all surprising. Just as drivers and airlines are feeling the pitch of skyrocketing fuel prices, so are school systems. As an example, Nova Scotia’s Acadia school board is now working to get a new school bus contract. The previous contract paid on a [...]

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A brief discussion about the economic imperatives for greening the nation’s taxi fleets. But, first, acronym definition:

CtB: Cost to Buy: acquisition price, how much to purchase something
CtO: Cost to Own: total ownership costs, from purchase through operating to disposal

Quite simply, moving our collective mindset from CtB to CtO is a societal imperative.
But, to question [...]

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Joining Mark Udall, some 28 members of the House of Representatives responded to Hillary Clinton’s challenge on a gas tax holiday … and rejected her Energy Dumb concept for a gas tax holiday.
While it is important that these 28 have spoken up, some of their words and the implications of their statement are concerning.

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