New personal aircraft

The A5 can land on just about any airstrip no matter how small.

Stop Whining

Phil Gramm accused us all of being a bunch of whiners. After all when you're living in Capitol Hill style life is great! Well I'm sick and tired of listening to John McCain whining about Obama. Lately he seems obsessed with what Obama is doing. Obama this, Obama that. Will you shut up about Obama and focus on your own campaign?

Casualties

Listing of coalition soldiers killed in Iraq.

Listing of coalition soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

UK company working on hydrogen refueling station which fits in your garage so you don't have to go to a gas station. Therefore no infrastructure is needed.

ANWR

I think all the hype about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as the answer to our oil crisis is outrageous. Oh sure, I think we can safely drill there without wrecking the environment or harming wildlife and I agree that we probably should. But from what I read the oil wouldn't hit the market for at least ten years after legislation is passed to allow it - if there are no lawsuits to interfere with the process. And if you read the material produced by the Department of Energy this oil will make a difference of between fifty cents to a dollar a barrel of oil which translates to something like six to eight cents per gallon at the pump. It's estimated that with the addition of this oil on the market our dependence on foreign oil will be reduced by about three percent. Here is a report (pdf) issued from the Energy Information Administration which is a branch of the Department of Energy. And another here.

Seems to me all this effort is mis-directed and we should be focused on bringing back the value of the dollar.