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Why Do Oil Prices Keep Rising?

No surprise at fall in Russian production numbers ... expect that to continue as gov't control of the resource continues to replace private business enterprise.

Do Biofuels Harm More than They Help?

This has nothing to do with investing ... it's all feel-good environmental psycho-babble for those on a guilt trip. The opening says it all right away - "Are biofuels just as harmful as fossil fuels?"

How can one conclude that returning subterranean fossilized carbon to plant and animal life on the surface by using fossil fuel is harmful? CO2 (product of burning any fossil fuel) is fertilizer for plant life, and plants produce oxygen. Guess what folks -> NEWSFLASH: all that fossil fuel we use today got to be fossil fuel because at one time long ago it WAS carbon in the surface ecosphere as plant and animal life! Yes, right here on this little bitttie eensey weensey desert island floating around in the ocean of the universe, and on which we are stranded! All we are doing is returning that carbon to the light of day on the surface of the island.

By the way, how many of you out there fretting about the harm of global warming can remember the 70's when we were supposedly returning to the ice age? If you don't, check it out. This global warming hysteria is the same thing redux, just in the opposite direction. Actually, I wouldn't mind a little milder weather here in the northeast. I wouldn't have to move south when I retire. Why, I might even have the beach at my front door!!

The Oil Scam Driving Crude Over $80

Even tho this sample of drivel is far from what I otherwise like to follow on Seeking Alpha, I always kind of enjoy Phil's mindless ranting .... only this time I was exceedingly disappointed ..... he didn't blame it on Bush! ...... But I was able to smile anyway!