Just four days into summer, and we’re already are setting records for energy consumption in Texas. Yesterday Reuters reported that the Texas grid had set a new record for peak energy consumption in the month of June. With temperatures already in the 100s in our largest urban ares, thermostats are cranking across the state, and [...]
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Hot Texas Summer Leads to Record Energy Consumption
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged baseload, Coal, Consumers, electric reliability council of texas, energy use, ercot, fort worth star telegram, generation capacity, grid, june, Nuclear, outages, peak energy, power grid, record electricity consumption, reuters, solar, summer, Texas on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sharks in a Dunktank: My rant on the student debt Business
Posted in Consumers, Good Government, Uncategorized, tagged Aid, College, Debt, education, Finance, Interest, John Boehner, loans, Mike Enzi, Pell Grants, Post-secondary, Sally Mae, School, Student Loans, students, University on June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is an issue that has been bothering me for some time, but does not get as much play in political discourse I think it should. In my opinion the high cost of education and my generation’s huge accumulation of loan debt are likely to be one of the biggest problems that ordinary people in [...]
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