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trade deficit with China which by the way increases by $1 BILLION PER DAY ([url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18518903]NPR)

(A billion dollars is a thousand million.)

I think a good summary of this thread is that there is a lot of wiggle room with regards to demand destruction. The U.S. in particular has been on such a binge of cheap energy and massive growth over ...

[url=http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=709222]...and catalytic converters

They were armed with cordless sawzalls.

ALBANY -- Gov. David Paterson signed a law Wednesday that makes it easier for natural gas companies to use an environmentally risky underground drilling technique, promising his administration will al ...

On May 29 New York state's top environmental officials assured state lawmakers that plans to drill for natural gas near the watershed that supplies New York City's drinking water posed little danger. ...

Fear-mongering:

They know people are too scared to pay higher prices. Even if they know prices might come down, do you think they would ever tell you that? No, better to keep the masses constantl ...

I have noticed a lot more people just talking about all this.

These are not PO-aware people, just average folks trying to figure out what is going on, but mostly just complaining about the cost o ...

Well I for one am finding this to be good news.

Of course the doomer in me has several questions, but I will start with this one. It appears from the EIA stats that motor vehicle use of NG has co ...

Can anyone answer this question? Does the recent run up in prices help or hurt Mexico? It seems they would be benefiting greatly right now from high oil prices and if they play their cards right cou ...

Once again, can't get past the first sentence because of the word "economist"

Nice try.

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Israel's wall is working great to keep people OUT.

And it's done wonders for relations between Israels and Palestinians.

Palestinians have bulldozed down part of the Gaza-Egypt border wall again, hours after Egyptian troops blocked holes recently made by militants.

Guards with riot shields stood by and then pulled ou ...

Here's an astonishing piece by the president of ASPO on the findings of peak coal and how they affect climate change....

ASPO on Peak Coal/Climate change
Shocked

Plans for making liquid fuels from n ...

A U.S. panel created to recommend ways to fund road construction plans to propose that federal gasoline taxes rise as much as 40 cents per gallon over five years, a person with direct knowledge of the ...

ALBANY -- The state is joining the hunt for the holy grail of global warming -- a way to reach deep underground to permanently entomb fossil fuel-emitted carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that fuels ri ...