Energy

3 More Reasons

by bdunn on March 24, 2011

in Be Afraid, Big Ag, Energy, Factory Food

Here are today’s three reasons why it’s better to buy your food from local growers/producers than it is to get your food from companies who buy it cheap from other countries, then ship it across the continent (or the planet) to a store in your town, which then jacks up the price to cover shipping [...]

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It Can’t Happen Here

by bdunn on March 17, 2011

in Corporate, Energy, Government, Self-reliance

It could be my independent nature or maybe a genetic streak of isolationism – or maybe simple fear – but when news of a an epic crisis crosses my computer screen, sometimes my first reaction is to find a way to mentally wall myself off from the event, and convince myself that, while it’s undeniably [...]

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Shades Of Things To Come

by bdunn on March 2, 2011

in Economics, Energy, Factory Food

Last Saturday, regular unleaded gasoline here in the petrochemical heartland pulsed through the pumps at a mere $2.969 per gallon, but by Sunday the service station owners finally heard about Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and all the turmoil sure to break out around various Mideast oilfields, and so when I filled up after church, [...]

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The Inconvenience Of Truth

by bdunn on February 9, 2011

in Energy, Verbatim

For those who think growing/raising your own food is quaint or crazy or too much trouble, consider how $8-per-gallon diesel fuel and gasoline might change food prices and distribution. Below is a portion of one of the many State Department classified documents released to the public under U.S. government protest, by Wikileaks. This particular document [...]

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Parish The Thought

by bdunn on February 18, 2010

in Energy, Environment

Extra chunks of goo in my nose lately so just for fun I wade through the obfuscation over at the Texas Commission on So-Called Environmental Quality to find the database of air pollution permit violations. I select “Fort Bend County” and search for all violations over the last approximate month, Jan. 15 through Feb. 15. [...]

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