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November 8, 2008, Steven Stoft
zFacts Launches Energy Policy Book: Carbonomics
Don't we have enough books on energy? All but the one we need. You can read about solar panels, wind turbines, global warming, and on and on. But what will get the job done? Carbonomics has the answer. And no, it's not a techno-breakthrough.
It's a combination of ideas from the past as well as economics from the likes of Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz. OPEC tested high oil prices back in '73-'85, and they worked—carbon emissions dropped for 12 year, oil imports plunged, and in 1986 conservation flattened OPEC and its high prices for 18 years.
Trouble is, it cost us a fortune. Carbonomics explains how to set high prices ourselves and recycle all the revenues directly to consumers--as in Alaska. And it tells how to keep this from being circular and make it work.
Check out the praise for the book from top economists, and get your own e-book free. If you like it, buy a copy in December—it's being printed now.
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September 29, 2008
Republican House Leader Boehner says they tanked Wall Street because they didn't like Pelosi's speech. I don't think so. But Republican Paul Ryan says "We’re all worried about losing our jobs. Most of us say, 'I want this thing to pass but I want ... more >>
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June 25, 2008
Today's Peak-oil Forecast: Forecasts will be wrong
Prominent peak-oil maven Matthew Simmons said less than a month ago "I bet oil peaked in May 2005... I was very lucky in my timing." See how his forecast turned out >>
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Subsidizing the switch away from fossil fuel can make sense, but corn ethanol, made more from coal than sun, is too expensive and among the worst choices. Confirmed by new National Acadamy of Sciences report. Biodiesel is better, and non-corn ethanol will be good when it gets here.
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2007 tied for second place (with 1998), after first-place 2005 "The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean is in the cool phase of its natural El Niño-La Niña cycle." NASA
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We're in Iraq to prevent Iran from dominating our oil. —Kissinger
Kissinger, a contributor to the surge plan, has just explained that "American forces are in Iraq to prevent the Iranian[s] from dominating the energy supplies of the industrial democracies." Cheney and his secret Iran/Syria Operations Group still want to attack Iran. He and the neocons have blundered at every turn. !
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October 31, 2008
National Debt Tops $10 and a half Trillion
When George W. Bush was inaugurated, January 20, 2001, the National Debt was $5,727,776,738,304.64. Today it reached: $10,530,893,033,778.21.
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FREE e-Book
Carbonomics
Fix the Climate
Charge It to OPEC
$15 when published in December.
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The Assassins' Gate
Sympathetic to the Iraqi people, it covers both their experience and the ideological debate within the administration. Reveals the monumental impact of neoconservatism on today's foreign policy. "This is a war of ideas, and sometimes even well-intended ideas can be dangerous, and worse, devastating to human life and society."
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