The Reference Frame: Abiogenic birth of oil

You can see that the new oil reserves are being discovered frequently enough to keep the "oil constant" genuinely constant, up to small fluctuations. If you haven't heard about it, the "oil constant" is the number of years in the future after which we will run out of oil, and it's been equal to 40 years or so for quite some time. ;-)

Cap and Trade: Unrest at Home - State Journal - STATEJOURNAL.com

The cap-and-trade crowd wants this nation to accept the pain of cap-and-trade policies without the certainty of the environmental gain they promise.

That appears to be a hopeless formula -- one that understandably is creating unrest here at home.

New Zealand needs all-inclusive carbon scheme: minister | Green Business | Reuters

"It is my ambition to try and have the policy and the legislation around New Zealand's ETS settled by the time of the Copenhagen conference, but it's a big ask," Smith told Reuters in an interview, referring to a major U.N. climate meet in December.

"It's a hard environmental policy because it strikes at the heart of industrial societies that rely heavily on the burning of fossil fuels."

Advice to Obama: Act like GOP controls Congress - John Feehery - POLITICO.com

Most analysts believe that his plan to impose a so-called cap-and-trade system on our energy sector will fail. He had to fire his green jobs czar because the guy signed a petition that accused the U.S. government of engineering the Sept. 11 attacks so that we could invade Iraq. He is getting to be so toxic to a large percentage of voters that he had to explain why he wanted to talk to school kids nationwide.