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T. Boone Pickens: Natural Gas is the Bridge Fuel

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2039, 18th May, 2012
The video below is not incredibly exciting, but it is delivered by an effective and clear communicator. Bottom line: oil is unsustainable long term, renewable fuels are still somewhere over the horizon, and so we need a “bridge fuel” between now and then. What is this bridge fuel? T. Boone Pickens, a geologist and very [...]
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Domestic Oil Production Doesn’t Matter

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0227, 1st April, 2012
For inhabitants of the United States, domestic oil production doesn’t matter. More precisely, it does matter, just as sugar tarrifs and zoning regulations matter, but it’s not the game-changer people imagine it to be. What really matters is Canadian oil. Natural gas is a close second. But the domestic oil policies of the United States [...]
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Think Twice Before Invading Uganda.

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2011, 18th March, 2012
So says Allan Stevo. Related Posts:Domestic Oil Production Doesn’t MatterUncle Sam doesn’t need more soldiers.A Practical Program of Disenfranchisement: A 10-Step Plan to Save American Democracy by Dismantling ItA brief collection of deceptive words and phraseswatching fireworks with mennonites and others
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thoughts on the economics of oil and the principle of endless recalibration

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1613, 29th April, 2011
Mises, among other ideas, popularized the notion that ‘middle of the road policy leads to socialism.’ And what he meant when he said this was, given a basic framework of law and order, the markets function to funnel resources to productive citizens in the most efficient way possible. (The gap in this, of course, is [...]
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a poem to dispell the hatred

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1531, 14th July, 2010
Joel Watts has written a post condoning hatred of BP.  And although I think he’s substantially right on details, except that the post should probably be renamed “Another Reason to Hate the British Government and their Friends at BP,” I won’t argue the ideological implications of the spill here.  Instead, I will simply try to [...]
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