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King Coal Gets $3.1B to Clean Up Its Act

Wow, I cant wait till 2010 Congressional elections, when we send the socialist Dems a packing, along with their costly health and energy policy's.
The health policy raises costs and expands gov, 2 bad choices.

The energy policy, side steps our best move, which would be to convert coal power plants to run on NG, AND to begin immediately converting our transportation fleets to run on NG.

I wonder what happens to Mother Earth, when we pump her full of the toxic pollutant, CO2, sarcasms!!

Notes on the Employment Report

the second income, eg mom that went to work in 60's and 70's, was basically adding income that was paid away to gov in higher taxes, eg the Carter maliase.
Cut taxes, and let mom raise her children, in stead of the public school system, MTV and iPOD.

The Electric Car Will Usher in Smart Grid 2.0

I just love America's coal powered electric cars!

Itron, Comverge Test Plug-In Car Charging Control

Have they figured out how to plug it in directly to the coal mine??

Government Financing Slow to Drive Solar Deals

What is needed is de-regulation of the energy industry in general, let the market make prudent investments where they have future profitability.

Current areas, that would increase American jobs, would include;
-conversion of Americans transportation systems, for sure cars and trucks, to compressed NG, a cheap, abundant in USA, and clean burning fuel.
Also, systems to convert our coal supply into a clean burning liquid fuel that is free of toxic metals.

These moves are sooo compelling to any technically savvy person, the term "SLAM DUNK" comes to mind.

Both of these moves will create prosperity in the USA, instead of destroy it thru senseless subsidy's, paid for with borrowed money from Asia, which will indenture our children throughout their lifetimes.

Ethanol vs. Natural Gas or Coal: Comparison Not Even Close

excellent article, coal and NG are American fuels, and the country badly needs them incorporated into our energy industry. Perhaps, NG should be used to reduce coal use in power plants in the short term, and coal-to-clean fuel developed for our longer term liquid fuel needs.
So, near term, lets get NG into more power plants replacing the oldest coal plants first, AND
Second, lets begin to rapidly convert our transportation systems to run on compressed NG, as much as possible, cars, trucks, buses can be converted, new systems are not required, simply conversion. We will also need to address the delivery of compressed NG to the consumer.

Great Article, I just sent President Obama a compelling email for him to replace the current Sec of Energy with none other than yourself.
Hope that you will hold your nose and accept.
thanks for excellent article.

IEA Whistleblower: Governments Underplaying Peak Oil

the peak oil stuff, badly neglects the conversion of oil consuming industry and transportation systems to natural gas.
NG continues to become more and more abundant, not only in the USA, where its so abundant that new drilling is being postponed, but also in South Asia, where the worlds largest energy co's are building massive production and liquefaction facilities.
Peak oil neglects NG as a very attractive alternative.

Municipal Bonds: A Clear Case of Buyer Beware

In CA, there is growing opposition to gov spending, particularly on salary's and pensions.
Meg Whitman is running on a platform of reductions in the state gov labor force, I think its only a few years off, before state pensions will go 401K, and all defined benefit obligations will be converted to 401K.

Hopefully, these measures will prevent the state gov's from holding muni lenders hostage with threats of BK, and gov re-finance of muni debts.
I'm supporting the Whitman campaign, it may be the only thing standing in-between a solvent state gov and BK under Jerry Brown.
PS, I would sell CA munis if Jerry (moonbeam) gets elected.

Toward an Economic Model for Gas-to-Liquid Fuels?

this is excellent news, although, the coal to liquid fuel process should also be pursued, much of the global warming science if failing to predict the last 10 years of stable if not cooling global temperature, hence the hysteria against production of CO2, will soon subside, not to mention the global economy is in no shape to afford, massive carbon taxation, and the concurrent un-employment.
Overall, good news, but then what else would you expect from one of the worlds best company's.

Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

Fritz, JC from CA, regards your thinking of how to promote NG,
Did you see Special edition in Wall Street Journal this week, must have been Tuesday, 8 Sept 09,
All promoting Nuclear energy in USA, It was a "small", maybe 5 pages, special edition, covered the whole message of promotion;
concept is perfect for NG, transform article to NG, your agruments for NG are far more compelling than the nuclear arguments,
when I return from traveling, currently in NY, I am going to contact the author of the nuclear article and challenge to write one on NG.
Best to you Fritz, keep up your excellent work and attitude.

4 Dividend Stocks to Hedge Against Social Security Failure

Where are we now that economy has gone into the tank, as far as Social security is concerned? Author is making a good point that cash flow will soon go negative with declining incomes caused by this prolonged recession. Obama will not bring this up in a NY minute, cause he wants to lock in his programs requiring massive new US debts, before he breaks the news that SS has gone negative cash flow.
What does SS negative cash flow really mean, simply that we must borrow or print the deficit.
As to the integrity of US borrowing, eg Cross, true, we have paid all debts, however after Obama increases our debt over the coming decade, our US$'s will be worth far less to the lender's. So, as to the integrity of Obama's USA?? pretty thin integrity, in my opinion!!

California Comes to a Cowardly Compromise

Democrats not to allow California's mediocre educational system to be completely gutted";
An amazing statement, given that CA teachers are highest paid in country, working about 9 months, or 3 months less than the rest of us,
CA education system spends over $300,000/year running each classroom, the teacher gets less than $100,000 including benefits, and the state bureacracy wastes much of the rest, funding personnel who barely support our childrens education.
The state school budget could be cut by a 1/3 and still have funds to raise the salary's of teachers, and their aids. Further, still leaving over $100,000/year to fund NON classroom expenses.

Six Signs Economy Is Turning the Corner

American industry may have leaned out to the point where it can make a profit and the banks are being massively subsidized with ZERO % rates, if you can that the ECONOMY then things are getting rosy.

BUT, new American job creation is years off, perhaps a lost decade of job creation is being legislated in Congress, with a newly socialized energy and health industry, I anticipate years of high joblessness, perhaps a lost decade,
Are we waiting for 2020 to get new American jobs?
Well I would take the 3 million that Obama promised in his campaign??
where are they, ghost jobs??

Natural Gas May Be Just the Solution for This Economy

"But regardless of what happens with gas - or any of the other resource options - Michael Fitzsimmons is correct when he says that the American people should demand a sensible energy policy from its government. What's the point of buying the one that's for sale now?", as said by Ferd E;
So, what is our masterful gov doing,
-no nuclear build up,
-no NG build up,
-massive CO2 taxation machine, costing jobs and $$ to American family's
-some are even pushing for much higher taxation of gasoline,
American energy policy and the economy are tightly connected, the current administration, has no clue what makes the economy click.
We need to convert much of our transportation vehicles to run on American NG and possibly imported LNG,
We need to begin using our significant national energy labs to develop modern nuclear energy machines, these labs are way under utilized in energy production.
Hey Fitz, keep up the good work.

Is Hydrogen the Best of the Green Fuels?

No, Natural Gas, NG, is the best fuel for America and its people. H2 does burn into water vapor, but it is very costly to manufacture, it is NOT found ready to use, it is manufactured from NG, by burning more NG.

NG storage is 100's times more efficiently stored, than H2, which must be supercooled to reach liquid phase.

The American transportation industry could be transformed to use much more NG than current use, what if HALF of our family cars ran on NG, we could practically eliminate importation of foreign oil.
We would be hiring our own energy workers to provide us with our transportation fuels, instead of sending our US$$ to ME, no thank you.
NG is by far a much better fuel than H2 for America, its economy and the American people.

Drill, Drill, Drill, and NOW, for American jobs and prosperity.