Joe Public

A Natural Gas Centric Strategic Long-Term Comprehensive Energy Policy

One point in your plan seems oddly out of place IF the objective is to drastically reduce dependence on oil in general and gasoline in particular, and that is the recommendation to cease building coal-fired power plants. Your social engineering suggestions also smack more of ideology than of offering a practical solution to a given problem. But then, when people go to your personal website/blog they can see that you are kind of "out there" in some of your political views. You are entitled to your views, of course, but sometimes I think your analysis loses objectivity and utility because of them. If our predicament is as dire as you suggest -- and I tend to agree with you that it is -- then we can't afford the luxury of ruling out the use of coal with pollution-mitigation technologies that exist today.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Not that I was ever tempted to do this, but I won't be taking market timing advice from Harry "it's not going to be a pleasant sight" Reid. As I write this, the S&P is up a point on the day. Bravo to the Senators who just said no to this multi-billion dollar band-aid. But a big Thumbs Down to every single one of them who value their December vacations more highly than continuing to work on this problem. Didn't we rip the Iraqis for taking their August vacation instead of working on their constitution? What's so different here?