Author Archives: Other News Sources

Revolution on the road

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Other News Sources

(October 14, 2006) Governments in Canada and the United States sympathize with the plight of reckless automobile drivers: To save them from the exorbitant automobile insurance rates needed to provide them and other risky drivers with coverage, our government regulators order insurance companies to artificially lower the premiums that they and otherwise risky drivers, such as teens and the very old, would otherwise face. Continue reading →

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Small-scale plants run rings around nuclear

Posted on September 29, 2006 by Other News Sources

(September 29, 2006) “‘If we don’t go nuclear, what type of energy will meet our future energy needs,” I’m often asked. “Do you think fringe fuels such as solar energy can take the place of nuclear? Or windmills? Bio fuels? Small dams? Tidal power? Burning garbage?” Continue reading →

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Call Iran’s bluff

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Other News Sources

(September 28, 2006) If the United States imposes meaningful economic sanctions on Iran, let alone tries a military strike against its nuclear facilities, Iran threatens to play its oil card. Many fear Iran will make good on its vow to "halt oil supply to the last drop" through the Strait of Hormuz, conduit for 40% of the world’s oil exports; others fear Iran will cut back its own oil production. Continue reading →

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Scouring scum and tar from the bottom of the pit

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Other News Sources

(July 1, 2006) Faced with the undeniable reality of “Hubbard’s Peak” in global conventional oil supplies, the world’s largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America’s insatiable “addiction to oil” (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Along the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray, a sub-arctic town almost 1,000 kilometres north of the U.S. Continue reading →

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Just don’t do it

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Other News Sources

(May 31, 2006) Prime Minister Harper needs an alternative to Kyoto. Just about everyone seems to agree that our government can’t just do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions. But what if doing nothing is the best way governments can reduce emissions? Continue reading →

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