Bob McCarty Writes

The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.
As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number [...]

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I knew it would happen eventually and, yesterday, it did:  I found my first offer to purchase so-called “carbon credits” had arrived in the mail.
A review of the offer, which arrived in the form of a postcard-size insert inside the envelope carrying my monthly electric bill, left me scratching my head and wondering.
Delivered under the [...]

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Partnership for a Secure America, a group that recently gave the U.S. Government a “C” grade for its efforts to prevent a nuclear, chemical or biological terror attack on America, used a news release this morning to raise five questions (below) for Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain to answer.  Those questions appear below, [...]

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I typed the words, “energy independence,” in a Google News Search and found articles about algae, wind and other renewable sources of energy being touted as solutions to the current crisis that has Americans paying record-high prices for fuel. While I agree that some renewable sources of energy — corn ethanol excluded — hold [...]

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If I had to describe this morning’s weather in the St. Louis area this morning with one photo, the photo above does it: Grey skies, small hail, plenty of rain and, of course, wind. Thankfully, though, no tornadoes!

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