There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Anyone who might be expecting Mexico to bail us out of our OPEC mess might be bothered by this news from the US Energy Information Administration: Mexico is a major non-OPEC oil producer and the United States’ second largest source of oil imports. Mexico produced slightly less than 3 million barrels of oil per day [...]
Mike Huckabee had this to say in what I think is a response to the gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia: Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we’re paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas,” schools “that [...]
John Edwards is now calling upon Bush to tap into the federal natural gas reserves to combat skyrocketing prices. Citing prices in New Hampshire, he had this to say: “American families are facing skyrocketing home heating oil and gasoline prices, while big oil companies earn massive profits…..” “We need to stand up to the oil [...]
My buds at Independent Sources so nailed this issue I just suggest going there and reading it. A synopsis: …….but reading this story about Brazil’s recent discovery of a deep water oil field of 5,000,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 barrels of oil made me think of it……. ……but when the US has a known field of 25 [...]
David Crosby annoyed me when I was a little kid. Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young just struck me as scary when I was real little, boring when I was old enough to know what was going on. Other than cranking out kids for lesbian babes, he’s never done anything cool to me. Nothing wrecked [...]
Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a rain-swollen river in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead. Water levels were rising, work areas were submerged and the miners “had only slim chances of survival,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Ziqi, director of [...]
For two weeks, six miners have either been trapped in a mine in Utah, or they are by now most likely dead. Last night, while trying to get to those miners, three more died. Shortly after another mining disaster in West Virginia a year and half ago, I did a piece on preventing mine disasters. Apparently [...]
I have argued here a long time that most of the fears of nuclear energy are based on fear itself. Fear of the unknown as people don’t easily comprehend how nuclear energy works and don’t want to look into enough to sate those fears. People like Helen Caldicott and a lot of the media fan [...]
Steve Forbes is all undone about the political posturing of several members of Congress who are making claims they’re gonna fix the price of oil. Here’s a couple of snippets: First up is to outlaw “price gouging,” which they allege is behind the run up in prices – never mind the rise in the price [...]
Here’s their message: Letter to House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture Dear Member, Tomorrow you will have a hearing on the nation€™s current rural broadband programs. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is responsible for the Rural Broadband Loan Program, which subsidizes broadband service in rural areas. RUS has [...]
