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Yes, I am very motivated by my kiddos, I have three. I want them to have as good a start as I can possibly give them. It will no doubt be a very different world for them - and not what most expect at ...

Thanks guys! I've been reading this site for a while now, and occassionally I'm brave enough to comment. By the time I get around to posting, most often someone else has beat me to it, and can usually ...

It is doable, but it won't happen anytime soon.

It may be doable, but it cannot be sustainable unless it address the insatiable need for economic growth in our society, and, it seems, most technol ...

Great article!

Peak oil has hit the mainstream.

Thanks!It's not mainstream until Oprah Winfrey starts talking about it!
When PO reaches the point where bleeding-heart liberal feminist women ...

But America gives away it's oil at huge discounts to the big oil companies.

Is this due to tax breaks and land give aways or are they subsidized in other ways as well?

They may not need to pull the plug on the ethanol sub. - http://www.slate.com/id/2190878/?from=rss
With the price of corn going up and the price of fuel going up, it is a difficult business to be in ...

Other countries will not develop the reserves of oil known to lie under their territories

It's statements like these that make me want to cringe - it almost feels as if this author interperts the o ...

Kudos to the guy at the end who said he thought energy "was the most important thing facing this country right now." That is a truth you do not hear often.

And now credit card debt--the last reserve of consumer credit--has now been maxed out and is beginning to produce an avalanche of defaults

With all the defaults which are just beginning to get star ...

“We probably would not have seen strong sales for electronics products that people really want if the overriding issue was economic,” Mr. Baker said.

What in the world does that statement mean - th ...

An article out of the NY Times is suggesting that consumer spending is on the decline, for all income levels. This quote brings me back to Kunstlers predictions:

The big exception is gasoline. Amer ...

The latest national poll has Obama and Huckabee as the leaders, obviously this may not last. It seems that Huckabee is not very well recieved by the mainstream or business oriented Republicans -and t ...

Personally, this sort of tax would be very good for my family. I came up with a rough estimate, and at 30% sales tax, we would have saved about $70,000 this year and that is being very conservative.
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Here is Salons take: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/07/huckabee_tax/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/feature

It seems to me it would hurt the middle class the most. It would have little effect on the wealthy, and little effect on the poor (if they are excluded), but the middle class would carry the burden - ...