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		<title>South Carolina Endorses Green Socialism</title>
		<link>http://ushighwayman.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/south-carolina-endorses-green-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, Gov. Mark Sanford created the South Carolina Climate, Energy &#38; Commerce Advisory Committee (CECAC). Today, it was announced that CECAC had produced it&#8217;s final paper on the results. And they are scary&#8230; First, what I didn&#8217;t notice until now is the composition of the group. Take a look through the list. Notice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=195&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblog of Pickens on Hannity Show II</title>
		<link>http://ushighwayman.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/liveblog-of-pickens-on-hannity-show-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[4:08 PM: Sean announces T. Boone to be on in the next hour. Supposedly to talk oil prices and how oil is jeopardizing our national and economic security. $700 billion has to come up, even if the oil price isn&#8217;t anywhere NEAR what is needed for $700 billion. 6:20 PM: AARGH! Stupid WIS radio! I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=188&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>T. Boone to Appear on Hannity TODAY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I only got wind of this at the top of Hannity&#8217;s show, but T. Boone Pickens is to appear on the Sean Hannity Show. You can listen to your local station or go to the local Columbia webcast here: http://www.wisradio.com/article.asp?id=507137 I will be liveblogging this, just like I did last time. We&#8217;ll see if anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=186&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Approves Transfer: America Adds $8 Billion in Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the AP (via Forbes): The bill transfers $8 billion from the Treasury&#8217;s general fund to shore up the financially teetering highway trust fund, which supports road and bridge projects around the country. In July, the White House threatened a veto, saying taking money from the general fund was &#8220;both a gimmick and a dangerous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=184&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on the Gas Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas prices surge as Ike moves in &#124; ajc.com. States warn gas stations against price gouging These stories is just full of juicy quotes about indignant consumers (read: voters) about this gas run.  I&#8217;ll present some quotes: Larry Ruiz of Duluth said it cost him $45 Tuesday to fill up his small pickup. Friday, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=180&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Run on Gas in South Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State &#124; Gas reaching $5 in Columbia Everyone knows what a bank run is.  Someone gets word that the bank is close to failure, or doesn&#8217;t have enough deposits to carry through to the next business day.  So people want to get their money out before the well dries up.  One person sees this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=177&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Pickens on Leno</title>
		<link>http://ushighwayman.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/review-of-pickens-on-leno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can see the video here: http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes/#vid=648021 Skip to the 35:00 mark, that&#8217;s when he stops doing his old man impression and gets to the Pickens Plan. And of course, he started with the $700 billion lie, just like I thought he would. He said that he did the analysis ($700 billion and 70% of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=173&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pickens On Leno Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike The Highwayman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens will be appearing on Jay Leno tonight. I can guarantee that he will trot out the $700 billion lie. And nobody will care, as usual. Leno is a car guy, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what his response to all this will be. But I&#8217;m pretty sure that Pickens&#8217; populist shtick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=171&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Energy Deficit and the Pickens Plan</title>
		<link>http://ushighwayman.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/the-energy-deficit-and-the-pickens-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This graphic is from the EIA in their energy brief on energy subsidies: From this graph, we consume more energy (blue line) than we produce domestically (red line). The difference between the two is how much we have to import to balance the books, so to speak. This deficit amounts to about 30% of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=164&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much land would be needed for the Pickens Plan to work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But let&#8217;s give the benefit of the doubt to Pickens and say that wind could make up the difference. How many windmills and land would be needed for it to work? From the graph in my previous post, we have a power deficit of 300,000,000,000,000,000 British Thermal Units. This converted to kilowatt hours is 87 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ushighwayman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4176467&amp;post=167&amp;subd=ushighwayman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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