If Barr said this (at left) at one point, I wouldn’t be surprised, but his current view is the precise opposite.
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American Petroleum Institute Is Among the Most Powerful Groups on Earth
You may be wondering about the latest propaganda coming out of the American Petroleum Institute, one of the major lobbying groups for Big Oil. Well, it’s this attempt to convince us that government is forcing us away from fossil fuels, …
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A One-Minute Video Explains Why You Should Never Buy Another Gas-Powered Car
Fabulous work here.
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CO2 —> Transportation Fuels
This is a scam. How can I be so sure? Because the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm CO2, meaning that 99.96% of it is something else. There are opportunities to make synthetic fuels out of CO2, but they need to …
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Poll on Libraries
Whatever we were doing with our libraries for the last 2500 years seemed to work fine before the religious zealots arrived and created a problem where none had previously existed.
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U.S. Generals on Trump
To be a Trump supporter at this stage means actively dismissing the many voices of reason, like that of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley (see left). I’m having a hard time understanding how a …
Americans on Abortion
As shown here, one of the problems in discussing abortion is the lies surrounding the statistics. A significant majority (61%) of Americans support a woman’s right to choose abortion in all or most cases. The promoter of this pro-life “Susan …
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On Education
These is no denying the truth here. I’m reminded of a story about the child prodigy Frederic Chopin. By the time he was eight, he’d been a pupil of every piano teacher in Warsaw, Poland, the closest city to his …
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“Civilized” Society
The word “civilized,” used as an attribute of a society,” is a gray one indeed. It’s true that there are international laws that prohibit slavery, torture, and a wide variety of war crimes. It’s also true that we have veterans, …
A Conversation with Some Readers on Trump’s Eventual Imprisonment
Reader A: Unfortunately he will not be incarcerated. Reader B: We’ll see. Me: We’ll see indeed. It remains mysterious in the extreme that he still resides in the United States, watching the criminal justice system tightening the noose around his …
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