Even the electric chair probably created jobs

Keystone ad

While attending a conference for solar energy companies from the Mid-Atlantic states held last week in Washington, DC, I picked up a copy of The Hill, a newspaper for Washington insiders that comes out daily when Congress is in session. And I marveled at the full page ads taken out by big government contractors and industry lobby groups and directed at members of Congress and their staffs. Just another way that corporations act like people -- people with huge budgets for issues ads, that … [Read more...]

Who’s afraid of Daniel Yergin?

Daniel Yergin

Maybe you've tried arguing with a Fox News fan about global warming? Soon, you could start having the same kind of time-wasting exchanges about peak oil and energy depletion. The good news is that unlike climate change, most people haven't even heard of peak oil. That's certainly a challenge, but it's also an opportunity to help the public get it right from the beginning. Even better news: most people can easily understand that oil is a finite resource and can accept that the world will run … [Read more...]