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BLACK PLASTIC

 Black Plastic (Polyethylene)
During my recent travels I drove along a highway in western Florida where some road construction was underway in the median strip.
It was a four-lane Interstate highway with the wide median strip the level of which was below the center of the highway lanes.
During the last decade it seems that no one is […]

Corn Biofuel

One last comment.
If everyone seems to know that corn biofuel costs more to produce than the equivalent energy available from gasoline, that it requires fertilizers that pollute water, that by displacing wheat production it is causing all food prices to increase, why is corn production being subsidized?

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Fiscal Policy

Just read this morning that  Congress and the President have decided to borrow $168 billion from China to fund the ‘tax rebate’  for us.
With that, I expect, most will be spent by us to buy products from China.
Perhaps the Columbian drug dealers would like to get in on this deal also. I’m certain that they […]

The War Chest

I am reading a very interesting book edited by Robert Cowley, “What if?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been“.
It is an anthology of essays that look into historic events which would have had drastic consequences for the way we live today if some small event had not happened.
Ignoring the entire point […]