Opinion Forum

Texas Style State of the World

October 22nd, 2012

By Jan Barry I’ve seen the future and it’s called Texas! That’s the gist of how a liberal environmental activist, a conservative Congressman and many other folks described the Lone Star State at the 22nd annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference that ended Sunday in Lubbock, Texas. Here’s what the future looks like, according to […]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: coal, fracking, oil, Society of Environmental Journalists, Texas, water
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Climate Change Is the Worst Peril Mother Earth Has Ever Faced

March 26th, 2012

By Dan Miller It is everywhere and is the worst threat ever to everything. It is worse than all other horrors combined. Demon climate change must be killed. If we don’t succeed — and Yes, We Can — the odds will soon become overwhelming to the point that even people who have never died before […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Al Gore, climate change, Earth, environment, gas, oil, Rio, satire, UN
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Can a Nuclear Attack on Israel Be Compared Legitimately with the Holocaust?

March 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller It can be and should be. According to this article by the editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech moved closer than ever to the point of no return en route to war with Iran. Netanyahu compared Iran to Nazi Germany, its nuclear facilities to death camps, and […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Holocaust, Hormuz, Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, oil, terrorism, U.S., war
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We need a Reasonable Everything Board (REB)

January 20th, 2012

By Dan Miller Six reasonable Democrats in the House (please excuse the redundancy) want a Reasonable Profits Board (RPB) to impose additional taxes on sellers of oil and gas. Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control gas profits. The Democrats, worried about higher […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: board, Democrats, gas, oil, profits, reasonable, REB, RPB, satire, taxes
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Conservation for the Sake of Our Children Is Far More Important than Mere Cost

December 12th, 2011

By Dan Miller Green stuff is scarce and is too important to waste. According to this article, Last week, the Navy signed a contract with two biofuel companies to purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced biofuels at $12 million to assist in President Obama’s goal to establish a domestic biofuels industry and to advance it in […]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: biofuels, conservation, cost, energy, environment, oil, satire, U.S. Navy
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