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1Obama energy policy, Part One: Czarinas and ranchers and (Smokey) bears, oh my 1 Citation If there were any doubts about where the Obama administration wants to push US energy policy, those doubts were erased by the President-elect?s key choices for his energy and environment team this week. Or were they? Of course, the very fact that Barack Obama has created a team that intertwines environmental policy with energy policy pretty much says it all: Climate change will be the tail that wags the energy dog under Obama. I?ll save discussion of the President-elect?s choice for energy s, technorati.com
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Answer to question 6 on my presidential pardon petition submitted to DOJ today 1 Citation Answer to question 6 on my presidential pardon petition submitted to DOJ today January 6th, 2009 by Bobby Fontaine Question 6 ? Detailed account of offense - I got myself arrested purposely. My life was threatened by a US senator for blocking the discreet and easy passage of a liability waiver amendment for MTBE producers, a gasoline additive, in an energy bill in 2002. I?d been watching the debate over the amendment on C-SPAN from my home in Virginia just outside Washington DC. Whenev, technorati.com
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1 Citation It seems so. After a number of years of being praised as an alternative to gasoline for our trucks and cars, just about everyone has come to the conclusion that the corn-based fuel, ethanol, isn?t going to deliver us from further damaging the Earth?s atmosphere, help stop global warming, end our dependence on foreign oil, raise farmers? incomes, and create new jobs. The US is the world?s largest producer of corn-based ethanol. Corn ethanol, as it has been produced and added to our gasoline by, technorati.com
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GRADOS DE RIESGO PARA NFPA 704 (continuación) 1 Citation En la presente entrada continuaremos el tratamiento de la obtención de los grados de riesgo a colocar en el Rombo de HOMMEL -(rombo de la NFPA), finalmente he colocado una tabla con los grados correspondientes a varios combustibles. Para que ustedes puedan discernir los valores allí colocados les convendría conseguir las MSDS del o los productos analizados. Bien, continuemos con lo que estábamos diciendo en el reporte anterior, definiendo: grado 3 : Líquidos y sólidos que se pueden encender, technorati.com
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Environmentalists, PseudoScience and the OOPS Factor 1 Citation So, the co-founder of Greenpeace has quit. Patrick Moore has left the building... uh huh.He's fed up with his fellow compatriots who, without any formal science training, seek to manipulate us "unenlightened" with misinformation, skewed facts and fear rather than true science. Moore has had enough of "pop-environmentalism".So, what's the big deal? Even if the "environmentalists" are wrong, surely they've done us a great service...they've made us more "aware" and we're saving the earth. The quest, technorati.com
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Oil Companies settle claims in MTBE cases 1 Citation MTBE was an oxygenate added to gasoline to help curb smog. Then it turned out it was not such a desireable substance. If only those pesky underground storage tanks hadn?t leaked. One hundred fifty three public water companies in 17 states sued the major oil companies over groundwater contamination caused by the additive. Some of the defendants are going to settle for $423 million in cash if the settlement is approved by the court. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5762874.html http:, technorati.com
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1 Citation I heard people talking the other day about the problems with ethanol in gasoline and how there is an additive for a mere $10 per bottle to put in gasoline being stored for more than a very short period of time. I don?t know what the additive is as I haven?t actually seen any yet, but one can only assume that this additive won?t pollute because this would be another of many negatives for using ethanol in gasoline. The biggest negatives with ethanol in gasoline are the expense and the fact that, technorati.com
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Phase Separation in Ethanol Blended Gasoline 1 Citation Phase Separation in Ethanol Blended Gasoline?s Phase Separation in Gasoline?s containing Ethanol is now a major problem for all users of gasoline. Whether you use gasoline as a fleet operator or for your family car, classic car, boat, personal water-craft, motorcycle, snowmobile, ATV, RV, lawnmower, weed-whacker, generator, or any of the thousands of other types of equipment that use gasoline engines; you are being affected by Ethanol in your fuel. Phase Separation describes what happe, technorati.com
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Seipa nel Campionato Italiano Velocità con Dario Barzaghi 1 Citation Il Gruppo Seipa Quattro A è impegnato a sostenere attivamente le attività dei piloti della 2RACE Promotion & MotorSport nel Campionato Italiano Velocità e nei diversi trofei nazionali. Uno dei giovani talenti che meglio rappresenta la spirito del Gruppo Seipa Quattro A è Dario Barzaghi, punta di diamante della 2RACE Promotion & MotorSport, gia protagonista della prima gara a Misano ed oramai riferimento per tutti gli avversari di categoria, instancabile mietitore di podi. Assieme a D, technorati.com
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1 Citation According to Ed Wallace in a recent BusinessWeek article, Ethanol is a scam that is failing and the only help it is getting is a government bailout from the EPA requiring 15-percent Ethanol mandate. here?s some points; count ?em 1. Ethanol actually creates more smog than using regular gas 2. Ethanol is a net energy loser 3. Ethanol laced fuels reduce fuel efficiency of the vehicle 4. Ethanol increases global warming emissions over gasoline 5. Ethanol is great for auto repairs services be, technorati.com
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