Can Do It, Will Do It–Weapons and Economic Conflict

In the military there is the old principle about assuming for planning purposes that if there is something your enemy can do you best plan on them doing it.   If you rummaged around the bowels of the Pentagon you would find someplace where there were dozens are probably hundreds of books that were the War [...]

Common Ground or Conflict?

A pundit was pontificating last night that the new guy in the White House is doing the right thing by reaching out to the Muslim world to try and reach common ground with them.  Apparently, he is set to praise the Muslim contributions to science and medicine and their cultural heritage.  The announced belief is [...]

Pricking the Peak Oil Theory

Last week I heard another media report about how we have reached our “peak oil” production for the world.  That is the theory that maintains that we have found all the oil that is going to be found and that we have reached our peak of production of oil and that from now on production [...]

Adages for Politicians to heed

Some of the old bromides have real use even in our sophisticated world.   After all they became popular and endured over the ages because there was some deep seated truth to the comment, otherwise they would have wilted on the vine of time.  Let’s look at a few of those sayings that have endured and [...]

Trust the people with the oil facts, not the politicians

By popular demand I will augment the discussion about offshore drilling  and the the oil business generally so everyone can reach their own conclusion and not rely upon the spoon fed information of some of our more verbose politicians.  We need to examine a bit about exactly how the oil leasing  and production business operates [...]

Oil Facts, not fiction

I am getting really irritated by the comments of politicians about our energy situation and those who oppose trying to drill now for more oil.   Their arguments are disingenuous at best and outright spin lies at worst.   Just this weekend I heard more than one say that it would take 30 years to develop offshore [...]

Energy Politics or energetically political

So many words have been spoken the last week or so by various politicians about our energy needs and problems that is boggles the mind.   We have some very fundamental differences about what is the best course of action to follow.  The problem is that the differences are influenced more by political considerations than they [...]

Oil Politics or Politically Oily

The recent hearings in the Senate with the oil executives really got my goat.  The flagrant posturing by the politicians was nauseating.  I am completely for an intelligent and informed discussion about our energy needs and the high prices of oil and what action, if any, could be taken to alleviate them.   I am not for [...]