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Have you heard? Oilman T Boone Pickens is not only committed to planting the world’s largest wind farm in the fertile soil of Texas. He is not only committed to working to stringing a meaningful electrical grid to move electricity from that wind farm to lush markets for harvesting serious profits. T Boone has a […]

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Solar is a highly efficient way to heat water. Combine it with underground storage, and a year-round system can be created where the system can cover heating requirements in the winter and cooling in the summer. The Dutch company Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV has taken this concept and moved it a step forward with the Road […]

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How do we define freedom? In the face of $140+ barrel oil (and heading higher), Peak Oil, and Global Warming, an ever-growing definition: Freedom from Oil! For those fighting to achieve that freedom, another tool just got added to the arsenal: The Freedom Prize.

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Harry Reid spoke bluntly on energy issues.  Looking the Faux and Balanced cameras square on, he spoke truth: Coal makes us sick … This is an important statement.  Reid is speaking truth to an audience that isn’t used to hearing it.

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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 student-mile fee […]

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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. […]

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Energy has become an ever-more central part of my life – personal, intellectual, and professional. This ranges from working with the Energize America team (and leading revamped EA2020 for 2007 and legislative action), to serving on the Board of The Energy Consensus (a non-profit working to change the discussion of energy in DC), being trained […]

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Recall Deep Throat (All the President’s Men), that basic piece of advice: “Follow the Money.” As we listen to the George W. Bush’s, John McCain’s, the Republican Party’s, and the RWSM’s response to what George W. Bush described as America’s “addiction to oil”, remember those words. In face of addiction, is the Republican Party fighting […]

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Across the world, people are passing around with great excitement the news that there might be a bug that will create oil. And, not just bio-derived oil, but carbon-negative oil. One little bug, too small for the naked eye to see, and all our problems are solved! Peak Oil? Forget it. Solved. Global Warming? Forget […]

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It is ever so tempting to scream “GAS PRICES” and call for lowered gas prices if you are a candidate challenging for Congress or elsewhere. Ever so tempting to pander to (quite real) concerns about skyrocketing prices with counterproductive calls for cutting gasoline prices. These, however, fly in the face of the realities of Peak […]

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