Today’s Sunday Times features a piece written by a farmer from Tarrytown, New York. In addition to alternative fuels getting more attention due to the recent spike in oil prices, small, local farmers could also benefit. Big agriculture’s dependency on oil includes two arenas, the fields where big machinery handles the bulk of the work and on the road where trucks transport the goods. The rising costs of mass manufactured food could potentially pave the way for local farmers to grab more market s… Continue

Two of the three remaining viable presidential candidates have joined forces to back a laughable initiative to help alleviate the pain from current prices at the gas pumps. (See link below) It is now clear that if elected both John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton would carry on the same dysfunctional energy policy that we've endured for the past seven plus years under the Bush Administration. Energy policy affects the world economy, global warming and the degree to which we are threatened by t… Continue