From the category archives:

Energy

Oil as a tool

June 28, 2011

The Obama administration has decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.   The administration along with the IEA is doing this in response to the conflict in Libya or one can guess.  Obama’s rationale was actually to reduce gas prices according to their spokesman.  The deal includes the United States [...]

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Subsides for Big Oil

May 18, 2011

Last week I mentioned the administration’s actions against Boeing  and how it was purely a  political decision driven by progressive ideology, not for the welfare of the country, and certainly not driven by Biblical principles.  Today I thought I would bring the same argument for the administration’s position on big oil. Just about every summer, [...]

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Sand Dune Lizard

April 29, 2011

There have been many examples of the federal government hurting economic productivity here in the state of Texas.  Or at least attempts to do so.  There is the lost contract in Sealy combined with the cancelling of the Constellation program.  The administration has also gone after the Texas permit system…using the power of the EPA.    [...]

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Vanity of Vanities

April 26, 2011

In Ecclesiastes Solomon writes about the vanity of vanities…about all the things we strive for on earth and how in the end it is all done in vain.  We all do it to some extreme whether we strive for money, stuff, power, influence or even politics.  While there is merit in some of these things [...]

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Better late than never I guess.  I gave my overall impression of Obama’s State of the Union address in a very simple story last week.  Here are my other thoughts on the speech.  First, I would say that he never gave an accurate state of the union.  The numbers show we are in bad shape [...]

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