Category Archives: Energy

John McCain’s Jobs for America: Simpler, Lower Taxes

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Thanos

In this ongoing series I’m examining the McCain Economic plans. There are 8 parts to the Jobs for America plan so I”m looking at them one at a time. The previous article on energy can be found here. John McCain’s … Continue reading →

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McCain and Jobs for America

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Thanos

John McCain has unveiled his economic policy and his focus on the future. His campaign is Jobs for America, and I’m going to dig into it and evaluate it here as events permit. The first thing to note is that … Continue reading →

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Who Produces the Oil and Who Uses it

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Thanos

There’s an interesting new Chart at Gapminder of who produces, and who uses world oil supplies. Notice the steady slip leftwards from the US from 1972 onwards, when we were at our peak in oil production. Interim that capacity has been … Continue reading →

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Biden Voted Against the Trans Alaska Pipeline

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Thanos

Sarah Palin is very eloquent and convincing in this argument against the Obama/Biden energy plan, please watch the entire interview — she covers a host of salient points. Continue reading →

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Catching up

Posted on August 30, 2008 by Thanos

Although it appears that I’ve been slacking lately it’s really a case of over-immersion in work. Apologies to long time readers for all the quick posts of videos, which is really sort of cheating. Blogs are driven mostly by orignal … Continue reading →

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Red State Rails

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Thanos

If you follow the old highways of the midwest you get into farm country pretty quickly, and you will see the infrastructure used to supply energy. It’s not oil and gas lines I speak of. You see instead rail lines, switchyards, … Continue reading →

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Say What Barack?

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Thanos

This is hilarious. [editor: Well it was hilarious, but now they’ve pulled the air gauge vid. Here’s the latest McCain ad as a poor substitute.]

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McCain Calls on Congress

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Thanos

John McCain is a realist – he has the foresight to look ahead at the nine billion souls who will soon populate this planet, and what they will need. They will need energy in quantities undreamt of, and the only … Continue reading →

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Republican Drilling Revolt

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Thanos

The Democrats Turn out the lights in Congress like they are across America, the Republicans Refuse to go.   More from CBS: The House adjourned about three hours ago, but GOP lawmakers, outraged that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the … Continue reading →

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As Predicted

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Thanos

This is a time when I hate being right in these previous articles. This is a night I surely wish I were wrong, completely and utterly wrong. North Koreans are starving once again, and for now it’s the tyrannies and the slave … Continue reading →

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