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I had a talk with a Republican the other day who told me that Biden, worse than buying oil from the Russians, destroyed America’s domestic oil production on his first day in office.  It took me a few moments to …

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When U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office in early 2017, he will have left behind him innumerable elements of progress in the direction of a clean energy future. Obviously, all eyes are on the Keystone Pipeline just now, but that …

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Here’s an article from some contributors to GreenTechMedia that argues for a “new” way to look at energy.  The authors write, for example:  “Much of that “plentiful” natural gas is being extracted from deep underground pockets through hydraulic “fracking,” a …

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T. Boone Pickens says: “The Keystone XL oil pipeline would eliminate the United States’ dependence on OPEC.  Canadians say they have 250 billion barrels [of tar sands, the dirtiest form of crude]. That’s exactly what the Saudis claim they have,” …

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I have a good feeling that U.S. President Obama will axe the Keystone XL Pipeline.  My reasoning has nothing to do with the noise that environmentalists are making, though I’m not discounting that effect altogether.  I’m thinking that none of …

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I just took a break from a bicycle ride at one of the local wineries and happened to strike up a conversation with a guy who had driven up to our valley from nearby Santa Barbara – the site of …

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If U.S. President Obama decides in favor of the Keystone XL Pipeline, we’ll soon be refining and burning enough bitumen (pictured left), after pumping it from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, to provide the equivalent of putting an additional …

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In the last few hours I’ve recruited a bunch of people to join my wonderful daughter (pictured here a few years ago) and me in the march in Santa Barbara one of perhaps 100 happening on the same day across …

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Like everyone, I’ve always been impressed with the winners of the Nobel Prize. My favorite personal experience along these lines goes back to my younger days in which I chronicled the Nobel laureates in protein chemistry when I was a …

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My friend and 2GreenEnergy financial guru Bill Paul runs the organization “Earth Preservers” that is doing fantastic work in bringing the fundamentals of clean energy and sustainability to a world that desperately needs to come to grips with these basic …

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