The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.(Read more...)
George Carlin was a great comedian. If you consider this to be an oxymoron, or you don't know who he was, or you don't care whether he's dead or alive, please ignore this thread.
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Fascinating short video put together by The Detroit News, highlighting in startling detail how auto manufacturing can and should be run in the U.S., but forbidden to do so by the UAW "goonion."
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"We had spent so much time building up the levee, and it didn't hold. We would have been better off getting stuff out of there," Sherburne, 29, said Thursday. Perhaps it might be better if private charity supplanted government welfare. It might be better if all nuclear weapons were privately owned. It certainl...(Read more...)
When France & Holland voted down the EU Constitution, rules called for it to be dropped. Unhindered, the Eurocrats redubbed the same sovereignty stripper as a "treaty" requiring no popular vote. Except in Ireland, whose constitution mandates a popular vote. Once again, Ireland has saved Europe from the barbarians.(Read more...)
From The History Channel: Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but its impact was anything but small. From 1300 to 1850, a period of cataclysmic cold caused havoc. It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, acce...(Read more...)
Will Al Gore now demand that we increase our carbon footprint? Here are a few interesting excerpts from the article: "Although periods of [sunspot] inactivity are normal for the sun, this current period has gone on much longer than usual and scientists are starting to worry — at least a little bit. [...] ...(Read more...)
