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If you have been unable up until now to wrap your brain around the election fraud that occurred in the 2008 Presidential (Electors) Election in applicable* states like Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, among others; well, this picture showing how that fraud was carried out in Texas is worth a thousand words. As you follow this roadmap to fraud, keep in mind: if Barack Obama failed to satisfy the eligibility requirements of office to get election officials to print his name on the ballot in the state of Texas then… * Applicable states for the purpose of...

President Bush said he would speed up his alternative-energy push during the remainder of his term with new spending focused on easing bottlenecks that are slowing the spread of ethanol in the market. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on a swing through Alabama, Mr. Bush said he is seeking ways to overcome difficulties in transporting the fuel, and to increase the number of stations selling it.

In the unfortunate argument about peak oil supply, what constitutes "oil" is usually poorly defined. Canada's vast bitumen deposits, mostly located in northern Alberta, offer insight into the difficulty of determining what oil is, defining proved reserves, and peak production. There is little agreement on how this bitumen should be classified. Many folks do it the way World Oil does: with explanations and footnotes. One of our reasons for not classifying bitumen the same as conventional proved reserves is the fact that it presently relies on large amounts of natural gas and water for extraction and processing, as well as...

MONTICELLO - Standing on a hill not far from his farmhouse, John Caveny looks down at the grass growing around his feet and says he's looking at the future of Illinois agriculture. "The purpose of this farm is to turn grass into cash," he says. Caveny stands in a plot of miscanthus, a perennial grass that by summer's end will grow about 12 feet tall and has the potential to become not only a cash crop for farmers, but also a source of electrical power and motor fuel. As the nation's No. 2 corn ethanol producer and leading consumer of...

Oil rose above $72 a barrel on Tuesday, boosted by a jump in demand in energy-hungry China and continued tension between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear programme. The rally came despite an assurance from OPEC, source of more than a third of the world's oil, that it will do all it can to keep consumers well-supplied when oil ministers meet in Caracas on Thursday. "We're still in this bullish mode and people are looking for bullish headlines," said analyst Deborah White of SG CIB Securities in Paris. "Between China and Iran, if you pick and choose, you had...

Thermal depolymerization The loading station of the pilot plant in Carthage, Missouri Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a process for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons. The process has been referred to with various names, including thermal conversion process (TCP). Thermo chemical conversion (TCC) is a...

<p>This was going to be a column about oil. Instead, it's also about disease, poison, and a cool way to get rid of both. Actually, it's about a new technology — a new process that is going to make a Difference. One that's going to change things, and one you're going to be hearing a lot more about.</p>