You may not know what this means. I didn’t know what this means. But it’s good, I’m told.
Publisher’s weekly reviewed 31 non-fiction books this issue and only three were starred, $20 Per Gallon being one of them. Needless to say, I’m stoked.
The review at PW is here, about two-thirds of [...]
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Publisher’s Weekly: $20 Per Gallon gets a starred review.
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Drudge Report is pumping a story on the Air Car — I did that more than a year ago!
But it’s nice to have my interest validated on such a wide forum. The story Drudge is pushing is an AP story that you can see here.
My story, which ran in Forbes Magazine last April (2008) is very similar and can be seen here.
I also mention the makers of the aircar and their idea [...]
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Gas prices are up. Nobody cares.
Well, I’m sure somebody cares. But we all remember last year when prices shot past $4 everywhere, including those places in Missouri and Arkansas where they usually give gas away for free. So when we see $2.50 these days, nobody much panics. The New York Times says drivers aren’t shying away from the gas [...]
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Canadian Tar Sands: Blessing or Curse?
My New York Times went missing again this morning, so I slogged over to the website to see what the editors had decided to unload on what is the worst newspaper day of the week, Monday.
Interesting story on the Canadian tar sands. The tar sands are a great resource because they’re actually on our [...]
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be Norway?
Norway: A per capita GDP of $52,000 and a government that runs an 11% surplus and raked in $64 billion in oil revenues last year. And, to boot, they’ve got this great sense of Scandinavian Sanctimony over there, where they look down there blushed noses at us, the teeming and undisciplined masses, and say: [...]
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Democrats have plans to tax all that bad jamma: Potato chips, soda, cigarettes and liquor. How many smokers can there be left? Why so shy about a gasoline tax?
Because the Beltway Boobs are scared for their jobs, of course.
Raising the federal gas tax in the U.S. makes more sense than just about anything being talked about right now. But instead, we go after stuff whose retail costs are already half taxes - like cigarettes. Can’t pay for healthcare just [...]
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The Kremlin says energy may eventually lead to wars.
Thanks for that bit of hallowed insight, dawgs. It seems to me that energy has already led to a few wars. Umm, let me think… Nah, the U.S. would never be interested in an area just because of energy, would we?
Here’s the AP article on the Russians’ bold declarition.
But whatever. Whenever you get the [...]
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Note No. 2 to the jerk who steals my newspaper: More thanks.
I have to thank you again, actually, for ganking my New York Times today. Because when I went to the website to read what I had missed in the physical paper, I also read their Green Inc. Blog, which features a piece on a new bike-sharing program that Montreal has installed.
It’s called [...]
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To the fool who stole the New York Times off my porch: Thanks.
You’re an ass.
I’m charting your patterns. Wednesday seems to be a day when you’re particularly chipper on stealing from your neighbor. You suck.
One of these days, I’m going to sit at the door, in the dark, drinking coffee, waiting for your dumbass to come tromping onto my deck to steal my newspaper. Then I [...]
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Ridiculously Conspicuous Plug
Book comes out in about a month and a half. A condensed description: It’s a thought experiment of the U.S. at higher gas prices — all the way to $20 per gallon. When will Disneyworld die? When will high-speed electric trains connect the nation? When will Wal-Mart meet it’s doom? [...]
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