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What's red, white and blue, and green all over?

What's red, white and blue, and green all over?I've said it before, and I'll say it again.Obama will spend billions on alternative energy and in four years we will be more dependent on foreign oil than we are today.Bookmark it.Better than spending a trillion dollars in Iraq for nothingAlternative energy...

Tags: foreign oil, oil, nuclear energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Obama's push for alternative energy

Obama's push for alternative energyYou read it here firstAfter four years of Obama as president, we will have spent billions and billions on alternative energy with the end result that we will be more reliant on foreign oil than we are now.Obama is building US an express lane to ZimbabweFasten...

Tags: Obama, oil, foreign oil, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...

Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Additional Resources

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls

Smart grid, demand response and smart appliancesWhen I need to explain the smart grid in a sentence, I simply describe it as the coupling of a digital network on top of our existing grid structure. What?s the big deal with doing that? Digital information on the grid gives all sorts...

Tags: grid, demand response, Smart Grid, benefit

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls

Chances are you've heard plenty from people like me about the smart grid, which is being funded generously as part of the economic stimulus package. But WHY exactly is the smart grid important? Answering that question is the focus of a new report that was published in August 2009 by...

Tags: Benefit, Electric Vehicle, Grid, Chances, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?

A waste of tax payers' money as wellMarket would be better off if these clueless 'Czars' could lay their messy hand off economy.RE: Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?Yes it will be a waste of time because their reports will find that nothing is...

Tags: Federal government, Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, HUMAN BEINGS, FCC, human being, wireless, wireless market

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Auto marketing wars: Nissan claims over 300 MPG

only if this happened a long time agowe wont have depended on foreign oil so much.. but better late than never...How many of those 230/300 MPG miles?How many of those 230/300 MPG miles were spent coasting downhill, driving at 25 MPH on a test track or other unreal world, hypermiling...

Tags: marketing, MPG, car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Carbon Wars in the U.S. Senate

Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateWhy is this on ZDNet?I mean, don't you guys have your own websites to post this BS?RE: Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateThe Cap and SCAM system is the biggest load of horse manure I have ever witnessed. I can't even believe people were...

Tags: Construction, Personal finance, window, U.S. Senate, tax credit, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-27

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...

Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignorance

Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignoranceClinton on TwitterGetting snarky over a politician not being conversant regarding twitter is not going to change Secretary Clinton's point. Many, many people, such as me, could care less about Twitter and tweets, but we know they are there and we...

Tags: Twitter, State-Twitter, State-Twitter connection

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Global warming: what will American politicians do? Rest of world?

Global warming: what will American politicians do? Rest of world?Release us from these BS blogs.It's nonsense.And the man doesn't even have an opinion!For every billion dollarsthat the US puts into curbing Co2 - the developing world spends a pittance building thousands of new coal plants. IOW *we* are not the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?Green Y2KDennis, needed questions...I asked a similar question couple of weeks ago - are we headed towards a green Y2K?http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-green-y2k.htmlI was at Gartner then and we were warning the world about Y2K. The bigger the total remediation cost we projected the more...

Tags: Y2K, global warming, Climate Change, IT SPEND, information technology, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?

Recession and employment: where does the student stand?Obama is going to socialize everythingWho needs an education, Obama is going to give you free_heatlh_care. Also, he is going to spread the wealth around so we do not have to work. He is going to tax everyone in the Middle class and...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, welfare, education, tax break, real welfare, Obama, Middle-Class, recession

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?long time comingthis cap on minimum mileage should have been done a long time ago.With typical administrations saying that the money the US spends on foreign fuel from hostile nations puts more American lives at risk. Its just common sense to create a minimum cap on...

Tags: Blogging, Now Let, vehicle efficiency, blog, Mandatory vehicle efficiency, gallon

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.

An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...

Tags: Production, Ethanol Production, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Petroleum Age continues

Petroleum Age continueshard to argueIt's hard to argue with job creation that not only provides energy, but does so without paying a foreign government, benefits both the local and national economy and provides jobs during high unemployment.As it shouldHarry, even you should recognize that petroleum is a valuable resource. ...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, petroleum, Petroleum Age

Discussion threads 2009-04-09