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Debt is for certain, investments are speculative. You know you're going to have electricity costs and they are likely to inflate over time. Seems...
The Germans pay a little more than half what we do for healthcare (11% vs 17.5% GDP). Their economy is growing faster and they export more and...
... and if you lose your health insurance you're screwed. Our education system is poor, our citizen's report being less happy than their European...
Our water's so cold coming down out of the rockies that we use 9-11 therms/mo in the summer to heat it. We can use up to around 100 therms/mo in a...
Uh, you're holding up gulags as a model for how we should run our prisons? No thanks. I seriously doubt that the Scots letting Al Megrahi out of...
No, it's their way of keeping Chinese automakers off their back. That's my guess. Tom Friedman made a similar point in "Hot, Flat, and Crowded"....
Oil. Simple as.
nae worries, mate.
Ira Glass had a very interesting piece on the PA situation about a month ago. It didn't paint a pretty picture, particularly of the energy...
The idea that tectonics are influenced by solar events seems quite absurd to me. What's his proposed mechanism for this interaction? We have good...
Gen II. The Gen III seems to be a solid improvement on the Gen II in many respects so hopefully it's loads better in this one too. We travel on a...
If you don't buy, come here in the winter and I'll be glad to show you. The prius is rubbish in the snow and it's not the OEM tyres. It's the...
Well, it can't tow anything and it' absolute shite in the snow, esp on hills/mountains. It's low clearance makes it a poor choice for taking the...
The Denver Post ran a story about the internal divisions in the EIA about estimates of how much NG there really is. Some people think the...
woohoo! I win the contest. I knew 2010 wouldn't be the hottest. :D
Don't forget to include the massive emissions from the compression stations. Granted, the transportation costs of coal and oil need to be counted...
We don't eat of a lot of bread. It's not good for you.
Actually, considering how much time they spend drifting on the streets of Riyadh they probably punch well above their weight. :D Part of the...
Ha ha. I was in a rush, the other point seemed more important to get into the public record. When you compare the cost of petrol to the cost of...
the 200 year bit is dubious. Case in point, we had 600 yrs of coal in the 1970's. Fast forward to the present and we're down to about 200 - 250...
