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My wife asked me a question recently over lunch that caused me to re-think the car-buying question and the outlook for the car market in general that I wrote about in May, in What to drive and Driving upside down.[1] Her question was simple enough, even if delivered with a tone that revealed her relief that we . . . → Read More: What to buy and drive, revisited OK, my little Calculator Commandos, time to whip out your Texas Instruments- and HP-logoed units and join me on a sanity check of something that popped up in the news yesterday. From Utilities say grid can handle rechargeable cars: Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car? The answer . . . → Read More: By the numbers: PHEVs vs. TVs From NewGeography.com, Sprinting Blindfolded to a New Equilibrium: Everyone except the fabulously wealthy and the truly disconnected knows energy has become much more expensive in recent years, but it’s worth taking a step back and examining just how much it has jumped and what we should (and should not) conclude about the impact on nearly all . . . → Read More: Sprinting blindfolded to a new equilibrium High Oil Prices? Blame Ethanol, OPEC Says: Ethanol is on the ropes because of the food versus fuel debate, but now a new heavyweight just stepped into the ring and this one has got some really big guns. OPEC president Chakib Khelil has a new culprit for the rising cost of oil–ethanol. Mr. Khelil says about 40% of . . . → Read More: A pointless, oily food fight Update: As Jim Kingsdale points out in an update in the post linked below: “J. Peter Lynch, author of the essay posted below, is not the famous former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund named Peter S. Lynch. Nonetheless he has addressed an important topic, the full cost of our use of fossil fuels.” I’ve . . . → Read More: Must read: Peter Lynch and the cost of energy |
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