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POPS The Mysterious Origin and Supply of Oil processes for making petroleum likely require thousands of years. Even if Earth does contain far more oil than currently thought, it's inevitable that reserves will one day run out. Scientists disagree sharply, however, on when that will occur. And, some say, a global crisis could begin as soon as increasing demand is greater than supply, a possibility that might be measured in years rather than decades, some analysts argue.
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POPSU.S.Troop Funds $2.6 Billion Taken From Guns and Ammunition For "Pet Projects"
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called the transfer of funds from Pentagon operations and maintenance "a disgrace." "The Senate is putting favorable headlines back home above our men and women fighting on the front lines," he said in a statement. RELATED STORIES: • Michigan town lobbies for Gitmo transfers • Top Treasury posts stay empty in financial crisis • VA Dept. hospitals botched treatments Mr. Wheeler, who conducted the study, compared the Obama administration's requests for funds with the $636 billion spending bill that the Senate passed. He discovered that senators added $2.6 billion in pet projects while spending $4 billion less than the administration requested for fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1. Mr. Wheeler said that senators took most of the cash for the projects from the "operations and maintenance" or O&M accounts. "These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles, weapons, ships and planes,
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POPSEnergy Crisis Postponed: New Gas Rescues The World Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply " and rising fast. "There has been a revolution in the gas fields of North America. Reserve estimates are rising sharply as technology unlocks unconventional resources," he said. "The common wisdom was that unconventional gas was too difficult, too expensive and too demanding," he said, according to Petroleum Economist. "This has changed. If we ever doubted that gas was the fuel of the future " in many ways there's the answer." The breakthrough has been to combine 3-D seismic imaging with new technologies to free "tight gas" by smashing rocks, known as hydro-fracturing or "fracking" in the trade. The US is leading the charge. Operations in Pennsylvania and Texas have already been sufficient to cut US imports of liquefied natural gas (LGN) from Trinidad and Qatar to almost nil,
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POPSEnergy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world
"The common wisdom was that unconventional gas was too difficult, too expensive and too demanding," he said, according to Petroleum Economist. "This has changed. If we ever doubted that gas was the fuel of the future – in many ways there's the answer." The breakthrough has been to combine 3-D seismic imaging with new technologies to free "tight gas" by smashing rocks, known as hydro-fracturing or "fracking" in the trade. The US is leading the charge. Operations in Pennsylvania and Texas have already been sufficient to cut US imports of liquefied natural gas (LGN) from Trinidad and Qatar to almost nil, with knock-on effects for the global gas market – and crude oil. It is one reason why spot prices for some LNG deliveries have dropped to 50pc of pipeline contracts. We may soon be looking at an era when gas, wind and solar power, combined with a smarter grid and a switch to electric cars returns the country to near energy self-sufficiency.
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POPSPeace in the Congo - When? The Congo is blessed with wonderful people and resources that ought to enrich them. Greed by corrupt corporations and individuals over those resources has driven political instability since the 1960's. That instability allowed terrorists from Rwanda and Uganda to fuel violence in the border areas. Like Darfur in the Sudan, if we look aside, the violence picks up again. Please don't look away until the world agrees to stay the course and end the violence.
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POPSCrisis Cooker - Get off the grid Any means you can get of being self sufficient is going to be a definate advantage. Plus its a fun way to cook. Hot full meals while camping and night fishing, sounds good to me. Or something as essential as boiling water.
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POPSA new one even for me!! I'm still not convinced that's safer than traditional methods!! We do have a natural tendancy to overlook certain facts. :)
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POPSStandoff Negotiations Break Down as Navy Fears Pirates... This is a created crisis that has been allowed to escalate to humiliating proportions. The Navy vessel turned tail and ran!!!....not wanting "to escalate the situation." If the President doesn't allow the military to deal with 4 pirates in a lifeboat, we are INDEED doomed when confronted by Iran, Russia, N. Korea, etc... It's now more understandable as to why the military's budget is being cut; there's no plans to use our military!
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POPS Carbon-Capped Nation life support for American automobile manufacturers. Will it turn out to be a rare orphan of a machine? Waiting for revival of the housing sector likewise ignores the real shock that energy constraints imposed on commuters to the suburbs. The large house and long commute that underlay the past evolution of America's residential capital stock presumed the continued availability of cheap energy. Joseph Cortright provides a persuasive paper attributing the collapse of housing prices to the rise of gasoline prices. All indications suggest that prices fell in proportion to the distances of houses from the central business districts of the cities in which their occupants worked. Carbon caps will now stifle further investment in energy infrastructure, promote expectations of high fuel prices to come, and depress incomes. The roomy house in the suburbs seems unlikely to recover its lost value, or even hold its present residual value, in a carbon-capped nation.
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POPSLet's Not Waste Another Crisis - Get Their Guns! Here's another example of Obama/Dems using a crisis to further their own leftist agenda. Blame the violence in Mexico on our people's right to have guns. If the cabbage heads in Congress would do their job (years already to late) - enforce the border with fences and more man power, the problem about guns going into Mexico wouldn't exsit!
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POPS DC Liberals An Incoherent Bunch Of Eff-Ups a high tech leap that has any number of offshoots - and it has been cancelled. In this tsunami of government spending, the opportunity to harness nuclear fusion based power has been ended, replaced with dog runs and bike paths in the Spendulus pork buster bill! How did this happen? Here is an overview on the program and its potential: The sun and the stars burn hot in the cold, infinite depths of space because of nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms combine to form heavier elements with the release of energy. If mankind could harness this fusion process, we would have nearly unlimited fuel with little or no pollution. Although fusion has been achieved in the hydrogen bomb, researchers have been looking for over 50 years to tame it for electrical power. Taking up the daunting challenge, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is embarked on a program to reach this goal by using a new technology. http://www.saic.com/news/saicmag/2004-summer/fusion.html
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POPSWhy you should buy Fairtrade UK shoppers who buy Fairtrade products are providing farmers in the developing world with a crucial lifeline in the current climate.
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POPSEco Friendly Car Loans Green Car loan also known as fuel smart auto loan or go green car loans support an eco-friendly approach to car buying while offering you discounted rates on car financing. Wherein you have to simply buy a hybrid car or an environment friendly vehicle and receive a .30% rate discount on regular New or Used Automobile Loan rates.
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POPSWhite supremacism lies at the root of the 'respectable' nativist right
Last October, as America was being roiled by the subprime mortgage meltdown that led to the current financial crisis, the executive director of one of the most influential immigration think tanks in the nation was in a joking mood. Shortly after the failure of Washington Mutual Bank, Mark Krikorian found a press release issued months earlier by the bank that celebrated its inclusion on a list of “Business Diversity Elites” compiled by Hispanic Business magazine. Krikorian posted the release at the conservative National Review Online, where he writes from time to time, along with his own sneering headline: “Cause and Effect?” Krikorian no doubt thought of his posting as a simple joke. But to many, the attempt by the leader of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) to suggest a link between Washington Mutual’s commitment to opening its ranks to Latinos and its demise spoke volumes about the nature of CIS and its prolific research. Although the think tank bi
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POPSGM, Chrysler suing taxpayers with taxpayer money Earlier this week, Obama instructed the EPA to reconsider the case of California’s existing proposal to raise fuel-efficiency standards. The automakers have been fighting California and other states in court for several years. Last week, they pledged to continue that fight - despite the president's instructions and, to a larger extent, his consistent and unequivocal insistence on a “green” auto industry. Except, as it stands now, the automakers are basically using their bailout money -- from taxpayers -- to turn around and sue…the taxpayers themselves.
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POPSThe Energy Weapon Russia is attempting to use the natural gas pricing issue to topple Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the leader of the country’s pro-Western factions. Perhaps someone could alert our Democratic leadership that energy can be used as a weapon. The Democrats' bizarre attempts to suppress U.S. exploration for fuel is not only foolhardy, it is hazardous to the health and well-being of the country. Russia's treatment of the Ukraine should serve as a warning. But, given our brilliant Democratic leadership and its avowed allegiance to "The No Zone", somehow I think we've got a better chance of seeing Leon Panetta winning American Idol.
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POPSMugabe claims to offer PM job to rival in Zimbabwe Tsvangirai has long accused Mugabe of trying to sideline the opposition to a minor role in a coalition government. Deadlock on implementing their September power-sharing agreement has centred on control of key cabinet posts. The opposition leader said on Friday negotiations were endangered by what he called a wave of abductions of MDC supporters. The MDC blames Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party.
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POPSFrom 'Obama's Foreign Crisis' The Deadly Triangle: Obama's Foreign Crisis by Deepak Tripathi Comments on the reductionism applied to unreducible issues by US foreign policy.
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POPSLet's Pay Detroit to bring their gas sipping cars home to the U.S. Great idea! The Big 3 have been making fuel efficient cars for Europe for years, why not bring them here? Detroit needs money, and we need efficient vehicles. Let’s make a deal: We taxpayers will provide the funding to retool their factories to build just the specific models that are in the Common Good. We’ll fund retooling to build any models that help solve the climate crisis by getting better than 50 mpg, right now. It’s a win-win.
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