How many of you remember Billie Holiday, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, early Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee? No, this is not a test for Medicare. Your answers will not be screened by the IRS nor will your thoughts be recorded… Continue Reading →
We all know that when the price of oil goes up Americans are negatively affected. High oil prices increase our gasoline expenditures, constricting household budgets, and cause the price of everything that is transported or produced using oil (which is basically… Continue Reading →
I was amused and contemplative about two happenings affecting how we and the world make decisions concerning the use of energy and transportation fuel. Neither of them seems to have reached the national media. Both of them suggest how difficult… Continue Reading →
I am proud of my alma mater and read the magazine linked to it, the MIT Technology Review. Its coverage of alternative fuel issues is generally solid. Its more scientific and engineering-related articles, while at times requiring me to read… Continue Reading →
I wrote a book in the early ‘70s called the “Irrelevance of Planning in the ‘60s.” It was published by The MIT Press. The reviews were good. It sold enough copies to permit me to eat out at a middling… Continue Reading →
Take a look at all the “junk” you have lying around in your garage, basement, attic, closet, etc. Are you doing anything with it? Are you trying to sell it? Have you ever had a yard sale and realized that… Continue Reading →
Free traders of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but the garbage that binds you. Oslo, Norway has pointed the way to a sustained profitable garbage trade. The city converts household trash, industrial waste (even toxic and dangerous… Continue Reading →
By now, who hasn’t heard about the oil boom in the United States? Higher oil prices and new extraction techniques are largely credited for creating a rash of new oil fields, resulting in domestic production soaring to levels that haven’t… Continue Reading →
Every Monday through Friday, I join my fellow commuters in the trek along the Orange Crush Interchange. While I occasionally succumb to road rage over the course of my 54-mile roundtrip route, I can usually remain calm with the knowledge… Continue Reading →
Good for you, Chris Paine! Paine, if you remember, was the filmmaker who produced “Who Killed the Electric Car?” His recent opinion piece in The Washington Post took on the supposed mythologies about the demise or slow progress of electric… Continue Reading →
