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How PHEVs and EVs Will Sabotage America's Drive for Energy Independence

This guy really has it in for electric vehicles. He also has an interest in lead-acid batteries, as I recall. Eventually, we're gonna run out of oil. There is not enough arable to maintain a sustainable supply of ethanol for more than a century. Then we can use all-electric, return to horses, bike, walk, or maybe distill obese people into diesel fuel.

Obama's Financial Reform - A Distraction from the Real Issues

It is impossible to achieve economic stability in a closed system (Earth, for instance) by simultaneously increasing population and per capita consumption. Some underlying resources have a fixed and limited supply, and some nominally renewable resources will become extinct if they are not allowed time to reproduce and mature, or are harvested too aggressively. And that doesn't consider the effects of acid rain on the pH of arable soils or habitable ocean water, or of global warming on pernicious disease vectors, let alone inevitable Tambora events whose timing is unknowable.
That said, a few dozen public hangings of the most outrageously greedy bankers and corporate plutocrats might eliminate the fellatio of Mammon as a sacrament among urban financial creatures, and delay the inevitable catastrophe that must follow an economy based on steadily growing consumerism.

Why Economists Messed Up

Two years of physical labor on a farm, ranch, woodlot, quarry, mine, fishing boat or oil rig, followed by a few hours of watching siblings play Monopoly, should be a prerequisite for admission to B-school.
Computers have lobotomized America's nominal intelligentsia. Turn the damned thing off and look around at what's actually happening outside the cubicle.

How Much Natural Gas Remains in the USA?

If my memory serves me correctly, when I was a child in the 1940s everyone thought the US oil reserves would last into the indefinite future. Apparently, everyone was wrong.
Natural gas, like oil and coal, is a savings account for solar energy. To test the theory of unlimited withdrawals from natural gas fields, try running a control by withdrawing more from your savings account than you contribute to it. Those who live outside New York and Hollywood may learn something, and those who live in New York or Hollywood probably are incapable of learning anything.

Is Oil Going to $80 a Barrel?

And how do we propose to move our goods and ourselves, other than with internal combustion engines? We're heading for an Easter Island scenario where our energy policies are concerned. We should be pouring money into alternative energy sources and transmission infrastructure, population control, and local agriculture before we end up seeing both food and energy famines in the NE and SW, and anarchy in spreading circles around coastal urban areas. For example, how will we feed New York City when the Oglalla Aquifer and many lesser Texas, Arizona and California aquifers go dry, as they surely will in the next three decades? How will we heat rural New England homes when we run out of affordable oil over the same period? Do our economic gurus even know what the NAO and ENSO are, or what their long-term historic record of agricultural destruction is?

GE to Close Its Only U.S. Solar Panel Factory

After reading all this, I'm investing in small-caliber ammunition, firewood, canned goods, and maybe a few classic how-to books, like the Donner Pass Cookbook.

Smart DOE Battery Manufacturing Grants and Dilution for Dummies

In interesting article. One might also wish to consider that depending on how the additional funds are employed, dilutions may be temporary and lead to long-term increase in value. Suppose the waitress brings a larger mug and empties the old coffee into it before refilling? The relative volume is initially less, but eventually you get more ounces per serving.

20 Stocks Which May Be Threatening Your Portfolio

Horseshit.

Five Top Solar Power Stocks

Global warming is a naked emperor? Turning a hundred million years' worth of stored carbon back into CO2 in less than three centuries will have no effect on Earth's climate? Very interesting. On a flat Earth, the truth is plane to see.
But even if CO2 were not storing increased solar heat, it is certainly acidifying the oceans, and the consequences of that may kill the oceans--then which right-wing- flapper will fan up the missing oxygen once produced by phytoplankton?
The fact that there are still adult American doubters of global warming is an indictment of the science departments in America's public education system.

The Shallowest Generation

Neither conservatives nor liberals can get us out of this mess. What no one in power has yet admitted is: In an closed system like Earth, it is a physical impossibility to achieve economic stability while simultaneously increasing both population and per capita consumption. All economics rest on a foundation of energy, arable and fresh water. We're exhausting all three, and of the three, only energy might be sustained by a conversion to wind, solar and hydropower. Water is not technologically replaceable at anywhere near the rate it's being depleted. Arable can only be renewed by centuries of lying fallow under successive forests, or burial in volcanic ash followed by fewer centuries of natural fermentation in a stew of bacteria and annelids.
The international corporate capitalist system is inherently voodoo economics, and we are almost certainly headed for total collapse followed by class war and possibly by urban cannibalism before the end of this century. We can spare our great grandchildren such a nightmare only by adopting a new economic paradigm of population control, economic democracy, and stringent environmentalism. Otherwise, we're on a course to emulate Easter Island within a century.
Baby Boomers should keep in mind that in the tine of Christ, the population of the city of Rome was between 1 and 2 million, and western Europe was mostly agricultural. 500 years later, Rome's population was less than 50,000, and much of western Europe was trackless forest. Rome's insatiable greed, arrogant military expansionism and wasteful consumption, led by the political and economic elite, led to its collapse. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, as Santayana said.

Emerson Electric CEO: Washington Is Destroying U.S. Manufacturing

Let's deport these free market enthusiasts to Hong Kong and Singapore. My family has been here for nearly 400 years, and we didn't shed our sweat and blood to enrich a bunch of slime eel urban carpetbaggers who can't claim a single ancestor here for the heavy lifting. Free market cheerleaders are analogous to the crowds who yelled "give us Barabbas." In the French Revolution, enraged people nailed aristocrats' children to the walls of their parents' churches. It could happen here.

Emerson Electric CEO: Washington Is Destroying U.S. Manufacturing

What's destroying American manufacturing is the struggle among corporate plutocrats for a monopolisitic liplock on Mammon's prepuce. How many times must Mammon ejaculate in their mouths before their stomachs fill up? Lynch a few thousand of these cockroaches and see if things don't improve.

Cash for Clunkers: Wasteful and Stupid

The government will get much of that money back in taxes from auto workers, salespeople, mechanics, etc. Presumably it will also get the scrap value of the clunkers. Those who really oppose Government involvement in the economy ought to abjure a federal military presence, FBI, CDC, Treasury, Interstate Highway System, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and all the many ways in which our tax dollars serve us today. Zimbabwe is a nice place for these anti-government catamites of Mammon.

Smart DOE Battery Manufacturing Grants and Dilution for Dummies

In interesting article. One might also wish to consider that depending on how the additional funds are employed, dilutions may be temporary and lead to long-term increase in value. Suppose the waitress brings a larger mug and empties the old coffee into it before refilling? The relative volume is initially less, but eventually you get more ounces per serving.

Evergreen Solar's Long Term Outlook

Well-reasoned exchange of opinion and fact. Any alternative energy company is a long-term investment today, as were railroads in 1830, electrical and telephone companies in 1880, and drug companies in 1920. There will be washouts--consider that over 1,000 automobile manufacturers rose and fell in America before we got down to the Shrinking 3.