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G-20 refuses to back US push on China’s currency
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Leaders of 20 major economies on Friday refused to back a U.S. push to make China boost its currency's value, keeping alive a dispute that raises fears of a global trade war amid criticism that cheap Chinese exports are...
Remembering Nikolaus Otto
Nikolaus August Otto was born at Holzhausen, Germany on this day in 1832. In 1861 he patented a two-stroke gas powered (gas, not gasoline) internal combustion engine. The only previous internal combustion engine was best suited to converting fuel to waste...
House committee approves new funding for Black Rock study
PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, June 25, 2008 AT 12:06AM Yakima Herald-Republic The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a 2009 spending bill that includes $500,000 to complete the Yakima River Basin water storage study, Rep. Doc Hastings...
The Truth about Energy Independence
Don't listen to all the naysayers - like Barack Obama - who try to convince you that drilling for oil here or sinking a well there will only impact the price of gas at the pump by "a few pennies a gallon," and won't have any impact for...
Drill here. Drill now.
While liberal media types pooh pooh the notion that increased oil exploration and eventual production will ease the oil crisis, and, bewilderingly, hold out hope at the same time - for thirty years and counting - that solar and wind energy will really...