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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
If you are reading this please click on our gooogle ads…CES is a nonprofit agency and we need all the money we can raise..THANKS I used to say that the quickest way to green was WHITE. Simply painting your roof white with a durable white paint and b...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Would you buy a Soda Pop and poor part of it down the drain Well why would anybody by energy and cast it into the open air It is dumb but hundreds of millions of Americans do it every year. There are some experts who argue that we can’t make our a...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Now we enter the marvelous world of windows and doors. As someone who has been in the building trades most of my life I prefer people to live in CAVES. That is right I have been opposed to windows and all but rudimentery doors for most of my life. There a...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Let me start out with the statement: I AM NOT AND NEVER SHALL BE A TAX ACCOUNTANT. I you read anything hear and apply it to your taxes without consulting one you are taking your life in your own hands. I will give you an example. My wife and I put a Metal...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
(jam band Friday- http://www.youtube.com/watchv=81eSIwsLcWg  ) But it seems like the Environmentalists have been hollering STOP for that long. I know that I promised white roofs today but we will just have to wait for Monday OK. http://www.ilenviro.org/...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I have argued for a long time that the only demonstrable source of global warming is homo sapien. Why Because we burn things unnecessarily. We can’t help it. We got started a long time ago and it is all we know. All the other potential sources of g...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
What up with the Feds for the new green economy http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfmc=products.pr_tax_credits   Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency   Frequently Asked Questions: How has the new Stimulus bill affected the tax credits for ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
The US Military is the largest single user of carbon based energy in the World. When you toss in the other worlds militaries, if we just cut the militaries of the world to patrolling borders global warming would backup by decades. Not only that but the En...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
They raise prices. Yup that is right. If you want to go see the Wall or other war memorials on the DC Mall or even go to Arlington Cemetary…you are going to pay more at the pump. They do it every year and no one makes the connection. Soldiers die in...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Youu remember the Whigs, right The Torry party that lost first its appeal and then its name. Well guess who the Republicans appeal to now I do not normally post on the weekend but I saw this piece from AP and I thought WOW they really do want to lose mo...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
(it’s jam band friday - http://www.youtube.com/watchv=20Feq_Nt3nM ) This maybe the longest list of Qualifiers I have ever published and I have to start by eating crow to boot. I made a missssstaaake yesterday. The piece that I was quoting yesterday...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
See, it’s not just that its a 1973 designed reactor on which construction was started in 1976 and finished in 1984, nor is it the fact that it had 4,000 safety violations, cost 2.4 billion $$$ and was finally paid off in 2004. No, it’s that it...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
There is a movement afoot in the Philippines to actually fuel a long abandoned Nuclear power plant. It was built but never fueled because nuclear power makes no economic sense. The fuel is too expensive, and creating the fuel is so lethal as to be largely...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I could have picked any number of Google “friendly” topics today like: Gasoline prices rise Oil prices don’t - because I have long argued that the refiners will restrict production to raise prices because of the Speculator Driven Oil Sho...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
What has the Oil and Coal Industries freaking out All the money they are missing out on by not sitting at the cool kid’s table. But then like Enron, and the AIG criminal frauds….they are not the smartest guys and gals in the room. http://www....
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
(jam band friday - http://www.youtube.com/watchv=72DdlmI_Jug - Mark Bolen the original glam rocker) What has happened to the newspaper business Has corporate greed simply run amuck or has 30 years of deregulation simply inured us to the type of fraud yo...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
I said yesterday, how would your world change if everything on the outside of your house generated electricity I skipped windows because they are a topic in and of themselves. http://www.buildingsolar.com/design.asp#anchor138832Vision Glass P...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
What would the world look like if every surface of your house generated electricity. This is a very practical issue. During the illegal rate hikes of 2007 my brother Mike who owns an all electric house figured that for him to got off the grid it would tak...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Or even the environment or residential energy conservation Well Actually nothing but Dan lets me post a cartoon of his periodically here when I am completely out of ideas or when he is particularly brilliant which ever comes first. So when he asked his b...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 years ago.
Conserving Energy Will Bankrupt Our Economy Energy Efficiency Is Too Expensive For Poor People Coal Will Always Be a Part Of Our Energy Mix The Future Is Nuclear Power And so it goes. I will say it only one time and then repeat it for the rest of my life,...
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