Surprise! Nuclear Plants Are All Around You

Given all the talk about energy concerns, few mention nuclear power as an alternative. It already provides a chunk of our energy needs, though most do not realize this fact.

Accelerating Audit Verification

Many businesses and corporations in the United States are required to be audited every year as part of the over regulation of America. Unfortunately this takes its toll on American Businesses because there are a shortage of accounting firms willing to do these audits.

Accelerating Alternative Energy

The President of the United States of America has stated that our nation is addicted to Foreign Oil and that we need to break the habit if we are to continue to use the amounts of energy that we do. Few can deny this truth and the answer is technology in alternative energies and alternative fuels.

Propane Gas Prices

So you thought the fuel in the white container attached to your barbecue grill is some cheap fuel? You were wrong! Propane is a versatile fuel and it does not come cheap. Today there is a rising demand for propane across many sectors, such as residential and commercial, petrochemicals, farming, transportation, and several other industries.

Cancel the National Credit

When your teenagers behave irresponsibly with their credit privileges, you tear up their cards, if you love them. If you love your humble public servants, you do quite the same.

No Shortage Of Energy, Just Technology - 1975 Editorial

Gasoline continues its relentless march to $1 per gallon and still Congress ducks the issue in hope the President, by himself, will make the unpopular decisions necessary to solve the energy crisis.

The Spanish Rail, Standard Deviation and Innovation

Infrastructure is a term to describe all those nearly invisible activities that are needed to support other productive economic functions. If not centrally governed - like the Spanish Railway system - it will give different kind of problems, one of them

Sleuthing Copper Prices

This article relates how a home repair trip to the hardware store, turned into looking for missing copper and Bush bashing. It unveils one of those hidden costs of war.

Without Respect, Firefighters May Soon Be Gone With the Wind

Oh, look! Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin wants to give the firefighters a 0% raise. She likes to make these fights an annual event!

2005 Economic Update: Industry Specific 2005 Total Compensation Budget Predictions

What's in store for 2006? Research organizations have made their predictions, but unstable oil prices can cause even the most positive projections to take a drastic turn. According to Michael Macie...

Over Taxation Still Exists; Look at the Gasoline Taxes Sometime!

Sure, we have had tax cuts and this is one major great thing that the Bush administration has done, no matter how you feel about their other policies they have cut taxes. The government needs to go on a diet just like most Americans who are overweight.

Current Oil Prices

Over the past year, retail prices of gasoline and heating oil have increased by almost 50 cents per gallon. Diesel fuel prices have increased by more than 50 cents per gallon. One major cause of these dramatic increases in oil prices is the rising price of crude oil. In the United States, various types of crude oil are priced by using the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil as the benchmark. In early 2005, WTI prices were slightly above $42 a barrel, but by September 2005, they were at $70 a barrel. Oil prices have decreased then by a few dollars a barrel, but are still at historically high levels.

Federal Trade Commission in Charge of Energy Price Gouging; What a Joke

The Federal Trade Commission is now in charge of Energy Price Gouging? Okay so what does this really mean? Well it means during Energy Week in Washington DC, the FTC announce that it was in charge of FREE Act? What Free and Energy in the same sentence in the same week even, what a farce indeed?

Should Dubai Ports World Deal Be Economy Or Security Concerned?

Wave of protectionism putting U.S. into economic down fall. US must attract foreign investors like Dubai Ports World deal to keep the dollars from falling.

Federal Reserve Tightens Again Due to Inflation; Expected

The Federal Reserve has once again stair stepped its tightening of the interest rates and will do it a couple of more times or more depending on the expectation of inflation and other factors and we should expect this. Some considered that the Federal Reserve might tighten 50 basis points and they very well could have, yet there is no sense in sticker shocking the stock market.