Category Archives: Energy

Texas and Brown Gold

By David Barach | October 9, 2008

Greed and deregulation has sent the US economy into the toilet. The sooner we accept it, the sooner we can use it to start making some money! That’s exactly what San Antonio, Texas is doing. A state that struck it rich with Black Gold is doing it again, but this time with what they are [...]

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Trucker Energy Saving Ingenuity

By David Barach | August 10, 2008

For years, truckers have been urinating in bottles and throwing them out of the window to save time as they speed to their next job. With fuel prices so high, a trucker’s priorities have changed from saving time to saving fuel, but the methodology stays the same.
Everyone now knows that slowing down will save gas, but more [...]

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Stupid, Lazy, or Corrupt – You Decide

By David Barach | August 9, 2008

Thomas Friedman writes about how Denmark responded to the 1973 oil crises by becoming energy independent while growing their economy. In 1973 they got 99% of their energy from the Middle East, and decided that just wasn’t going to work for them. By raising taxes on fossil fuel and lowering income taxes, they created an [...]

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