AOL Auto News popped into my inbox and their first story headline had me clicking to read the full piece. The title in question: Car Buyers Won’t Change Habits Until Gas Hits $6.51 A Gallon Rising gas prices are changing consumers habits, but not the way you may think Pretty dramatic news,that gas prices would […]
Entries from April 2012
AOL’s utterly misleading title re gasoline prices impact on auto buyers
April 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on AOL’s utterly misleading title re gasoline prices impact on auto buyers
Tags: automobiles · Energy · energy efficiency · gasoline · journalism · truthiness
Did John Kasich just become untenable as the Republican VP nominee?
April 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on Did John Kasich just become untenable as the Republican VP nominee?
When it comes to choosing people for the VP slot on the ticket, there are many ‘rule sets’ that seem to be in play: does the candidate have dangerous baggage? (Read Sarah Palin.) Can they handle media scrutiny and interviews? (Again, Sarah …) Can they help deliver a battleground state? (Again, Sarah …) Do they […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · anti-science syndrome · climate change · republican party
Energy Bookshelf: Charting a course toward “sustainable prosperity”
April 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on Energy Bookshelf: Charting a course toward “sustainable prosperity”
Some five years ago, I wrote Truth be told, anyone with their eyes open is overwhelmed by the wealth of interesting, insightful, and high quality material out there — in soft (blogosphere) and hard (books, etc) copy. This drives us, all too often, into stovepiping our focus, gaining ever more knowledge about an ever narrower […]
Tags: environmental
Get Your Own Climate Hockey Stick …
April 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Want to prod an anti-science syndrome sufferer into a vitriolic rampage, utter two words: “hockey stick”. And, want to see them turn red, add two more words: “Michael Mann”. Simply put, Dr. Michael Mann’s work on reconstructing temperature records using multiple sources provided a very telling demonstration of how (rapidly mounting) modern temperatures were entering […]
Tags: anti-science syndrome · science
Regulatory Red Herrings: Twists and Turns in Job Impacts
April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Regulatory Red Herrings: Twists and Turns in Job Impacts
We’ve seen this clearly with Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents are letting us (all of U.S.) know that it will create 6500 … or 25,000 … or 100,000 … or over 1,000,000 jobs. In some ways, ‘just believe me’ type claims. The only independent analysis, to date, suggests that Keystone XL pipeline construction — even without […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · analysis · economics · environmental · environmental economics · global warming deniers
Romney advocated for “sensible” cars
April 2nd, 2012 · 1 Comment
Seemingly absent from Mitt Romney’s discussion of his father’s, George Romney’s, business expertise is his passion and support for “sensible cars”. As George Romney put it in 1994, I concluded way back then that you didn’t need a great big car for going to the market to get bobby pins. Thus, the Rambler as the […]
Tags: automobiles
Is Maryland’s Offshore Wind Energy Discussion Missing a Key Value Stream?
April 2nd, 2012 · 5 Comments
When it comes to offshore wind, one of the most exciting developments is in Maryland, where the House of Delegates last week approved a modified version of Governor Martin O’Malley’s proposal for offshore wind development (pdf). Much of the battle in Maryland has centered on ‘cost’, with opponents decrying the ‘high’ cost of offshore wind […]
Tags: Energy