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Government of the Money, for the Money & By the Money (via Running On Empty): - http://bit.ly/asLDE2

by PhillipJGreene

Special Autographed Version

Running On Empty - Autographed Paperback
Running On Empty - Autographed Paperback
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Category >> Alternative Energy
Phillip Greene

Will the real Sara Palin step forward, please? Please God, tell me it's Tina Fey. Sara has finally revealed her great political career plan. She's going to be the Republican party's spokesperson against the Obama energy program. She, who doesn't believe that humans have any affect on climate change, and whose husband is in the oil business, is going to.....do what?....


May 10, 2009

Who Are you...Really?

Phillip Greene

I heard a journalist on NPR this morning lamenting the demise of newspapers, due in part to TV and the Internet. I like newspapers, and I like the immediacy of the Internet too. Both technologies are useful. Watching Charles Osgood's Sunday Morning TV show with the Sunday paper and a cup of coffee in hand is one of the best moments in most weeks. But the journalist was critical of bloggers and others who can really say anything and never reveal their bias...


Apr 9, 2009

Energy Literacy

Phillip Greene

One of our biggest problems relative to the energy crisis is “energy literacy.”  Peak Oil News, a website that provides feeds to articles on the World Wide Web about energy and climate, reports that a study by a non-profit research group, Public Agenda, titled “The Energy Learning Curve,” presented some disappointing information. Most people are clueless. It’s January, 2009 survey of over 1000 American adults found the following...


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Running On Empty

A Handbook for Understanding and Surviving the Energy Crisis

Crisis (Kri’sis) A crucial point or situation in the course of anything; a turning point. An unstable condition in political, international or economic affairs in which an abrupt or decisive change is impending.
—From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Introduction

Can you imagine a world without oil? If you know all of the ways that oil impacts our modern world you will understandably have a difficult time imagining such a world. Our automobiles that give us our freedom of mobility, the food we eat, the products we buy and sell, our warm comfortable homes, all are made possible by the ease with which we can obtain oil and other fossil fuels. If you have traveled to undeveloped third world countries, you can begin to understand what a world without oil would be like. And yet even the poorest of these countries have cars, things made of plastic and many things that are dependent upon oil. The closest one can come to a place completely devoid of anything related to oil is the Amazon jungle where remote tribes with little or no contact with the outside world reside. This is not a world in which any of us would want to live...

Electronic Version Now Available!

Running On Empty is being offered in a downloadable e-Book Version, as a way for readers to obtain the book electronically.

The e-Book version is the same as the paperback version except the illustrations are in color in the e-book.  Use as an immediately accessible electronic form of the handbook once you have purchased it. Chapters may also be downloaded separately as a handy reference, especially the energy and money saving tips in Chapter 20.

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