Contents: Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? Gas Prices May Spike this Summer: Lack of Drilling and New Refineries Partly to Blame Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative ...
Contents: Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale CAFE Costs, and CAFE Kills Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a ...
Americans love a good scam. And nowhere more so than in the movies. That's why films like "Tokapi," "Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Thomas Crown Affair" are such huge favorites at video rental outlets. When a major oil company scams ...
Most good cooks don't start with a recipe, just a goal. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was the chief cook for Medicare. His goal was to provide quality health care coverage to an aging U.S. population. Unfortunately, his best intentions ...
Microsoft is the victim of a double standard. A federal court recently ordered the company to be split into two smaller companies. But there is a real monopoly that no one seems to want to do anything about. There's been ...
Freebies that many Internet surfers now take for granted could be eliminated or scaled back if advocates of Internet sales taxes get their way. Over the past several years, some of the nation's governors and big-city mayors have been pushing ...
Only government bureaucrats could suggest that the best solution to a government screw up is more government. But that's precisely what is happening when it comes to droughts. Local water authorities recently testified before the National Drought Policy Commission that ...
When the federal government announced on September 22 that it was suing U.S. tobacco companies to recover funds the federal government spends each year on smoking-relating health costs, more than one person quizzically asked: But doesn't the government support tobacco ...
There's no need to sweat summertime smog. Despite the hype, air quality is better now than it has been in decades. By now, most Americans are acquainted with code red days, ozone action days, ozone awareness days, and other smog ...
"Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it," Mark Twain once quipped. But now someone at least is doing something about some of its worst effects. A seven-year-old Virginia company called High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) ...
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Author: David Ridenour
Increase Fuel Economy Without Killing Americans
Cautionary Energy Tales
Unocal Uses Regulatory Process for Profit; Stands to Make Billions
Medicare: An Alphabet Soup of Programs Lacking Proper Nutrition For Patients
Split Up the Postal Service, Not Microsoft
Internet Tax Could Doom Web’s Freebies
Government Mismanagement, Not Drought, Responsible for Water Shortages
Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Contaminated by Hypocrisy
Is Summertime Smog an Increasing Threat to Public Health?
New Technology Will Allow Us to Dodge the Hardest Punches of Hurricanes