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Will Windows 7 Resurrect IT Spending?

Dear John Biggs,

I like your optimism - but, as all the previous comments suggest, Windows 7 isn't going to save the world or even Microsoft. I agree with the commentators, Microsoft will need a desired new innovation to have any postive impact on a tired company with tired customers.

Rentech Inks Biofuel Deal with Eight LAX-Based Airlines for Their Ground Utility Vehicles

Dear Michael,
When you say, : " Unlike cars, utility trucks at an airport never stray far from home. Thus, a centralized biodiesel pump can serve them."

Rentech is making diesel, just diesel, the only difference is, it burns cleaner, that's why they call it "clean" diesel. The so called utility trucks can venture as far away from the airport as they like because they are diesel powered engines that currently burn "dirty" diesel. And in 2012 they will be burning Rentech's "clean" diesel - which will be stored in the same diesel tanks they have stored the "dirty" diesel.

Regarding South Africa; an interesting lesson that we should learn from, i.e. South Africa became independent of petroleum importation. Exactly, what the U.S. talks about, but does not do. The logical next step evolution is coal-to-diesel power generating plants which obviously is far environmentally cleaner than traditional coal-burning power plants and will still be the most economically feasible. The U.S. does have the largest known coal deposits in the world. Why should we use it? We can just keep buying from the Terrorists or run our cars, ships, trains & planes on wind and/or solar power.

Famos

Rentech Blows Away Estimates

I agree with Delbert's comments, i.e., Rentech & similar companies, such as Syntrolium should receive federal stimulus assistance to accelerate the U.S. separation and dependence from foreign oil while providing use of cleaner fuels.

Renewable Energy Reality: We're Dependent on Coal

I liked the article. Very true and appropriate for the present time.

I liked the comments, both the SciFi and realistic ones. Real like, our contemporary problem is, not enough energy and too many people.

Congress Considers Bailing Out Its Ethanol Mistakes

Dear Tom,

Loved your article and the comments.
Solution: don't buy the inferior in every way product (ethanol).

Famos, for the last word.

Plentiful Coal - Not Peak Oil - Is Greatest Global Warming Threat

Hey Jeff St. John,

I sure was happy to read all the comments. How about you? I bet you enjoyed reading them. We are tired with all the distortions.

Your entire article was an incorrect negative attack, based on out and out lies. Unfortunately, there are too many people like you, with no positive answers, just negativism. Like you're trying to make our country fail. I'd suggest you give up writing, take up another profession. Maybe coal miner or something like that.

Does Anyone Care About Alternative Energy Anymore?

Dear Commentors,

You'd better check were you got your food to eat today. Or how you got to work today (if you have a job), or what keep you from freezing to death last night. The answer, PETRO ENERGY. I am not saying that we quit on alternate energy. I'm saying the food you ate today didn't get here by Picken's sailboat. And you'd better solve your immediate problem or you won't be around to solve your future problem.

Famos, for the last word.

Does Anyone Care About Alternative Energy Anymore?

Dear Kofi Bofah,

I agree with your story, but I write the following for a different reason, i.e. I'm not promoting the use of oil for the benefit of the Mideast. On the contrary, I'm promoting it for the salvation of the U.S. right now. We need to solve the immediate problem now, which gives us the time we need to solve our future problem.

I hate to tell you, if we couldn't use oil/diesel for transportation and had to wait for "new age green technologies" you'd starve or freeze to death in the process. However, we have enough energy material, that being coal to last 100 years. And we have the "now" technology to convert "dirty" coal to "clean" diesel. In spite of the asinine TV commercial "In Reality, there is no such thing as clean coal," paid for by the Arab's.

I suggest a new commercial: "Clean Diesel Now, to save your a__, butt."

Famos, for the last word.

Where Will Oil Go from Here? Goldman Says $45, Iran Says $100

Dear Ishortyou,

I hate to tell you, if we couldn't use oil/diesel for transportation and had to wait for "new age green technologies" you'd starve or freeze to death in the process.

famos, for the last word.

How Will Temporary Decline in Oil Prices Impact Energy Sector?

Hi John & Comentators,

I like your article and the following comments - it just quits before the finish line. It doesn't deal with the now. The right now. Everything that is talked about, is in the future. The too distant future. Futuristic technology. Futuristic infrastructure. We should keep developing that futuristic solution, but we should concentrate on the problem at hand. Sort of like operate and remove the cancer tumor right now, while we are developing a cancer vaccine.

Right now, we and the world function and survive on transportation and transportation is diesel. And we can produce and are producing that diesel from a number of sources and one of those sources is coal.

We are going to let the patient die of the cancerous tumor while we try to save him by a cancer vaccine. - We are the patient.

Famos, the last word.

Pilgrim's Pride Files Chapter 11: Not a Bailout in Sight

Dear Commentator,

To the three previous commentators: You wieners and criers give me a pain. I'd bet none of you have ever owned a business, not alone built one. I know you don't know the history of this company, for if you did, you'd sing a different tune.

Bo Pilgrim, chicken magnate, started from nothing. Because his father died abruptly from a heart attack, leaving their store in debt and the family with just $80, Bo was forced at age 11 to work at several different jobs. At the age of 17, he and his brother Aubrey purchased a farm supply store in Pittsburg, Texas, with money borrowed from a bank and a local dentist. Twice over the years, commodity chicken down-cycles almost bankrupted Pilgrim's Pride. I wish you'd read about Pilgrim's Pride in the Wikipedia web page. They are an American success story. They went from nothing, to the largest in their field. The only thing left to say, is I hope they make it.

Does Obama Have What it Takes to Turn the Economy Around?

Hi Jeff Pierce,

I just finished reading your article and the comments. First, let me identify myself somewhat, i.e. I to, am an American that lived in Canada, i.e. as a "landed immigrant" in 1968. Landed Immigrant because dual citizenship had been discontinued and I was not about to give up my American citizenship. One of my better decisions.

We lived and worked approximately 500 miles north of the U.S./Canadian boundary line. Living that far north thru the Canadian winters, most Canuk's wrongly assumed we were Canadians, not Yank immigrants. Over time, close relationships developed which produced candid conversations and the "bad public image" that you refer to, was more a result of envy, than anything. An interesting remark made by a number of Canadians, "only the failures live this far north, if we had enough money we'd live further south. Sometimes this remark include the USA and often the most critical Canadians were the one's that had been refused American citizenship.

Most of the world lives in a love/hate dilemma, i.e. they hate us because we have so much and they'd love to live in the U.S. if they could. I won't argue the preceding point because I've lived and worked in enough area's of the world to know it to be true.

The U.S. problem is a timeless. The "have-nots" want what the "have's" have and if they can't convince the "have's" to give it to them, the "have-not's" will try to take it, any way they can, which include, but not limited to, beg, steal, intimidate, tax or even kill. Proven through history.

What brought this to a head in this country, was entitlements, ignorance, stupid lending and borrowing practices, poor values, etc.
Can it be rectified - that's a story for next time.

Famos, for the last word

The Perversion of American Capitalism

Hi Henari,

Thank you for correcting my math. Overwhelmed by all the zeros. I believe you to be right on both counts. Refreshing to know someone does read the comments.

famos, the last word

The Perversion of American Capitalism

Hi Derryl,

I certainly appreciate the monetary banking lesson, but me being a very simple person, I have a hard time with understanding the philosophy of the non-existent "interest" phony money.

I feel that money is a mutual agreement of a unit value that we can use in place of an inconvenient barter system and consequently, we can use it to establish a value on monetary interest (or money put to work). And consequently, I find myself right back where Naufal Sanaullah left me, i.e. our problem resulted from some of us borrowing/spending money that we didn't have, didn't work for or could not pay back. Pretty simple when you think about it.

By the way, I don't think 300 million total American populace can ever pay back $30 trillion of debt because that equals $100 billion for every person in the U.S. Correct me, if I'm wrong.

famos, last words

The Perversion of American Capitalism

Hey Dr. Jackpot,

Was that a dream or a nightmare or a prophecy?

famos, last words