Carbohydrates have oxygen, hydrogen and carbon in their molecular structure. Carbohydrates are what we eat. Readily decomposed, won’t keep all that long. Dr. Atkins doesn’t like carbohydrates, but I do. Carbohydrates can be modified into liquid fuel, same process as making booze. In fact, ethanol is what gives booze its kick (and you a possibly [...]

My little business certainly does not qualify as a bellwether to the U.S. economy, but when all my small bidness owner friends get together and moan and groan about how high energy costs are cutting into our bottom lines, I can’t help but think that the economy is about to crack under inflationary pressures. [...]

“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” —Kenneth E. Boulding.
That quote is lifted out of Deffeye’s “Beyond Oil.”

“I am not an economist. So perhaps I am being unfair to write a chapter with this heading All the same, I am not [...]

Although currently on the “back burner”, the water issue I think is particularly important now for Oregon as we look to add 1.5 million Oregonians in the next 20-25 years, about two-thirds in the Willamette Valley.