Buick Wagon Lust

I can't remember the last time I felt open, unguarded lust about a Buick.  But now GM comes out with a Buick turbo wagon, as if breathin...

Obama Leaks Some Oil

Obama's energy department yesterday announced it would release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which hol...

Senate Votes To End Ethanol Tariff

About damn time.   The ethanol tariff and subsidy were essentially welfare for corn farmers, and perversely, most of the subsidy goes to agr...

Natural Gas to Ethanol

Now here is a form of ethanol production I have no problem with.  Dallas TX based Celanese says it has a process to make ethanol relatively...

Romney And Ethanol

Mitt Romney, pandering to Iowans, has come out in suppor t of ethanol subsidies.   I'm going to have a hard time supporting the guy in t...

GM CEO: Raise The Gas Tax

GM's CEO, Dan "plain speaker" Akerson said in an interview with Detroit News : "There ought to be a discussion on the c...

GM's Akerson Eulogizes LIncoln

In an uncharacteristically (for GM) blunt statement, GM's CEO said "They are trying like hell to resurrect Lincoln. Well, I might ...