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Holy out with the oil, in with the wind, Batman!
T. Boone Pickens, the 80-year old Texas billionaire oil man, has BIG plans for wind energy. Crazy, huh? Not really, it doesn’t take a brainiac to figure this one out (which may be why President Bush hasn’t). So, if you watch news and pay attention, chances […]

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The Maine Blackfly Breeder’s Association recently held their annual convention in Machias, Maine. The topic of this year’s convention, besides crowning the year’s “Blackfly Queen”, was a discussion on ways to harness the wind power generated from a blackfly’s wings. This caught a lot of press as it’s a novel way to find an alternative, […]

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“Coal!?” you say. “Blech! Dirty, polluting, nasty stuff. People stopped using it on the 1950’s for a reason.”
Well, stereo-types die hard. What’s different in today’s world? A few things:

Oil prices - at $3.70+ per gallon of home heating oil  you GOTTA look for an alternative.
Efficient stoves - today’s stoves are much better than the stoves […]

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The skyrocketing price of gas and oil doesn’t seem to be slowing down - AT ALL. The price of oil passed $110 a barrel yesterday. Ugh, just as the peak driving season kicks into gear. Soon the price jump will move into grocery and product costs as well, because you know they don’t ship that […]

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Sunday has become my chill to da blog kinda day. I still deliver SHTF madness straight to your monitor, but c’mon. It’s Sunday! Writing total TEOTWAWKI lovin’ 7 days a week is enough to make anyone want to huddle in a corner and cradle canned goods.
Today I’m posting a Blackwater press release. It came out at the end […]

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Yippee!
*sarcasm*
Oil is expensive again!
If this isn’t enough to excite survivalists I don’t know what is!
Actually, it’s not like oil retreated to “reasonable” levels, it just came down from its $100 high. Now it’s heading back up on fears that OPEC will cut production to keep prices high. Saudi Arabia and OPEC keep changing their story […]

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