Obama’s War on Coal Comes To Alabama
It’s not enough to open the borders and give millions of illegal aliens work permits to compete for Southern jobs in a depressed economy … […]
Energy
Stand for Coal Demonstration in Prestonburg and Pikeville, KY
While thousands of Americans in hundreds of cities protested the border surge which is a direct result of President Barack Obama’s executive order that bypassed […]
Energy, Secession, and Leverage
Texas This is worth sharing here: “Author Bob Smiley says even if the demands of nearly 100,000 rebels from Texas aren’t being taken seriously in […]
Republic of Dixie: Natural Gas Production
Dixie The South dwarfs the rest of the United States in natural gas production: Note: The value of Wyoming in terms of coal and natural […]
Republic of Dixie: Nuclear Power
Dixie The South generates nearly half of America’s nuclear power: South Carolina – 49,869 Texas – 38,162 North Carolina – 37,775 Georgia – 33,681 Florida […]
Republic of Dixie: Projected Coal Production (2011)
Dixie Here’s the numbers for U.S. coal production by state: Dixie would walk away with 31% of U.S. coal production, and if the Far West tagged […]
Republic of Dixie: Projected Crude Oil Production (2011)
Dixie H/T Chuck Thompson If the Blue States get Oprah and Harvard’s Department of African-American Studies, the Red States walk away with +82.7% of U.S. […]
Limits To Growth: California’s Dysfunctional Political System
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
Limits To Growth: Neo-Slavery
Malthusian World As I mentioned in the comments, Richard Heinberg speculates that slavery might be restored in his book Peak Everything: “In the U.S., as […]
Limits To Growth: 3 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
“Up With Chris Hayes”
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]
The Export Crisis
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Prophets of Doom
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]
Kunstler’s New Book
Africa Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation … I’ve been reading a Kindle sample, and this is some dark […]
California Perestroika
California In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast: “California’s “progressive” approach has been […]
Peak Oil and White Privilege
BRA H/T Kievsky This promises to be comedy gold: “KMO welcomes Jay Smith and Jeff Wilburn to the C-Realm to reflect upon the Age of […]
Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking
Vermont Vermont … the launching pad of great progressive ideas like the abolition of slavery, civil rights, women’s suffrage, feminism, and gay marriage has become […]
NBC Show: Revolution
Illinois 15 years after the collapse … new J.J. Abrams series might be worth checking out.