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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I do not mean to imply that high gasoline mileage cars would never come to Springfield. What happen was I ran into 2 examples of such cars accidentally in the course of 1 hour. I was waiting for my friend Randi to show up at one of my favorite places to e...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I walked in the Labor Day Parade today and it brought back memories of the times when we did not try to burn up this planet and squandered every energy resource we have. . Remember when we used to walk to go to the store to get groceries . Remember when ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
Yes it’s true it’s TGI(WB)F again. Barack gave a great speech and then it was over. Now to the Labor Day weekend ahead. God bless the food now hand me a turkey sandwich. whatscookingamerica.net/Foto4/CookedTurkey3.jpgGo on a picnic! Have a Goo...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I know this is dated but the conference was held at the middle of this speculative oil price spike that has gone on for at least 6 months. I wonder if the Peak Oil folks know how to tell a speculative spike, a real spike through scarcity of production fac...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I have also added them on our blogroll: http://www.solar-aid.org/ I know I have been bouncing around here from the Democrat Convention to Oil Speculators and now Africa but I ran across these folks awhile ago. I tucked them into a folder and forgot about ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I swore on my mother’s grave (sorry mom) that I would not put up a post about oil prices until they fell below 100$$ per barrel because I was tired of people pointing fingers at each other because the whole system is rigged. The Chinese were hoardin...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
Ok so I am a media slut for trying to grab google hits with the title of this post. Still this is a historic convention in oh so many ways. This story cited below is actually a double steal because it is an AP story from Yahoo: http://hosted.ap.org/dynami...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
Ok so I am a media slut for trying to grab google hits with the title of this post. Still this is a historic convention in oh so many ways. This story cited below is actually a double steal because it is an AP story from Yahoo: http://hosted.ap.org/dynami...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
TGI(WB)F - I have so much happening in the next 3 days that this is going to be short and really weird. Got a 50th birthday celibaration for Board member Cathy, the BBQ and Blues Festival and Barack Obama ALL on Saturday. A fundraiser on Sunday and a Club...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 months ago.
I did not double check to see what the exact exchange rate is. I just guessed. It’s 20 English Pounds so I just doubled it to be safe: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1046778/Student-inventor-creates-20-wind-turbine-scrap-developing-w...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
I have to admit that if not for Peak Oil and Rueters, I would not have known that this was even going on.  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/20/business/NA-US-Energy-Summit.php Business leaders: Make renewable energy cheaper :} MY TAKE ON THIS IS MAK...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
Environmentalism really IS about saving the Earth. Not the rocks, the water and the oxygen some of its primary components, but the lifeforms that inhabit it. When we try to preserve the humpback whale it’s because it they are beautiful and important...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
The Peak Oil People are so focused on the inevitable that you have to admire them:  http://postcarbon.org/ Post Carbon Institute Reduce Consumption : Produce LocallyNew: Post Carbon Institute Issues A Call For Action and releases Ten Steps For Individuals...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
I was really disappointed in the Illinois State Fair this year. Last year there was so much energy conservation going on, both in the public and the private sector.  This year there was nothing but Conservation World. DO NOT get me wrong, as I said to the...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
Andrew Peters sent me this email and at first I thought I would post it as one big comment. BUT just as I was getting ready to hit submit, I thought, “heck this would make a great Post”. So with out any intro, Community Energy Systems first gu...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
I skipped over the rest of the electronic world for a number of reasons when I was talking about the residential market in this blog partly because it is not a huge saving for my 2 person adult household. So let me say this right up front that this post i...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
Can you imagine all the dumb things we do with oil We use it to make fertilizers most of which evaporate or run off. We use it to make plastic bags for God’s sake and then throw most of them in the dump. If we just cut our stupid usages and limited...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
April 15, 2008: Earth Day: Save Money and Solve Global Warming Green Your World Victory for the Grand Canyon “Green” Nobel Prize Winner Introducing Green WorksView as Web Page | Ensure Delivery | Tell a friendEarth Day: Save Money an...

Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
TGI(WB)F!  Look up in the sky! Its a Bird: www.blognetnews.com/…/feed.phpchannel=330   Dedicated to John and Susan at: http://www.thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/  Though it is rarely discussed John and Susan have a clutch of messenger pigeons that they...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 months ago.
OK so I am a lame poster. I really don’t know how to post video on CES’ blog so I am just going to have to leave activation  switchses before each discription: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/funniest-green-viral-videos-...
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