Time zones and all that, the third debate of the US presidential campaign happened at the start of my day rather than the end. So perhaps my sense of humour was a bit impaired. But I scored the debate differently…
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It seems all the talk about peak energy production is a bit premature, as the argument of abruptly declining fossil fuels is fizzling.
Recent discoveries of vast oil reserves in North America have exceed 1.7 trillion barrels, 1.4 trillion in…
It was not so long ago that America’s energy dependence was widely believed to be the most serious threat to our economy and our national security. According to the Department of Energy, in 2004 the U.S. was importing 55 percent…
Last February, Bernard Lewis, the famous historian of the Middle East, warned that if elections were held early after the Arab spring, “It can only lead to one direction, as it did in [Weimar] Germany, for example,” an allusion to…
