Engineers can only go so far with the energy roadmap.  Here are a few stories culled from various sources that detail how politics play a role in your energy strategy and/or what other people feel compelled to publish:

• Martha's Vineyard Wind Farm

• Would $4 Gas Help?

• Nero fiddles while Rome burns?

• Conserve or seek new supplies?

• Friedman again...why is Toyota worth 10x GM?

• Europeans building a coal plant...

• Subsidized power in Ontario...

• Ethanol, farmers, and the US Government

• Interesting coal op-ed piece...

• Synfuel as solution?  What about CO2?

• California carbon emissions legislation-8/31/06

 

 

 

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves" - Brendan Behan