Crude oil reached record high prices again, thwarting any hopes from last week there would be a continued decline. ...more

June 29, 2008

Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin to Dallas, to Texas Instruments, where he helped invent the modern world as we routinely experience and manipulate it. Working with improvised equipment, he created the first electronic circuit in which all the components fit on a single piece of semiconductor material half the size of a paper clip. ...more

June 26, 2008

OPEC and the oil futures parasites may have inadvertently resuscitated downtown Sebrings across the United States. Sensible medical doctors could serve patients from offices within their homes. Grocers might stroll from nearby residences to send fairly priced products from their markets. ...more

June 26, 2008

I guess my admittedly flippant response to the first letter Dallas Dunlop wrote pushed a few of his hot buttons and for that, I suppose, I owe him an apology. It was all meant in good fun and certainly not intended to be insulting. Having said that, I still think he totally missed my point. I never for a moment claimed that we are not in the midst of a national energy crisis; nor did I wish to create the impression that we have nothing to worry about or that we are sitting on gazillions of barrels of oil. ...more

June 18, 2008

Dallas Dunlap's letter to the editor in the June 1 edition of Hernando Today gave us a lesson in "Supply-Side Whackonomics" and its impact on the price of gas. The hairs on the back of my neck are still vibrating! ...more

June 7, 2008

Common Sense Eludes Dems ...more

June 6, 2008

"Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices..." ...more

May 28, 2008

I am writing to you today with some questions and comments regarding gas prices, and more specifically, the greed of the members of OPEC. If we are the greatest nation on earth, and I believe we are, why do we tolerate the gouging we are being subjected to? Why don't we, as a nation, tell the Arab oil companies where they can put their oil, and instead use our own oil for our own people? What happened to all that oil we are pumping in Alaska? What about all the oil rigs off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana? Isn't that American oil? Why do we export our oil to China or wherever, and then import Arab oil for Americans to use? Why not let the Chinese deal with the stuck up Saudi king, and we just keep our own oil? Doesn't that make more sense? And if we did use our own oil and let somebody else deal with Saudi Arabia, then the president would not have to meekly ask the king to please pump up the supply of oil, only to be told no! Because I for one do not like the sight of the American president sucking up to anybody, let alone some smug Arab king! ...more

May 23, 2008

It is strange but perhaps not unexpected that as oil price soars to record highs, alternative fuel opponents have been beating the drums. They have to beat them pretty hard to drown out the cries of pain at gas pumps around the world. ...more

May 13, 2008

According to a new poll by Public Agenda and Foreign Affairs, six out of 10 Americans think reducing energy dependence will help national security "a great deal." They worry about global warming, too. But most of all they care about putting cheaper gasoline in their cars. ...more

May 12, 2008