How can your average item of food travel 1,500 miles to your plate? Cheap oil, that's how. But be careful how you count the carbon generated by the delivery of your food. The amount of "oil in our food" suggests that we will be eating a lot more local food,…
With the high price of gasoline, more people are now riding trains then ever before. I hadn't before seen any fuel efficiency numbers for Amtrack, but here are some from the NYT: Oil costs hurt Amtrak, too. Fuel is projected to reach 11 percent of Amtrak’s budget this year, up…
If you stop to listen to the “solution” to the energy crisis, you’ll hear millions of people (including most politicians) reassuring themselves that coal will be the new oil, because the United States has plenty of it and because there is now a way to burn coal “cleanly.” This last…
I've been following various articles in my local newspaper and local television "news," looking for some recognition of the seriousness of the problem with soaring energy prices. This problem is entirely predictable by reference to the simple economic relationship between supply and demand. We've got a finite diminishing supply of…
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune Parker, Florida Today Pavel Constantin, Romania Parker, Florida Today