At a time when many are worried about the Libyan civil war and, if we are honest, not only for humanitarian reasons but also for how it can affects us economically due to the rise on the price of oil, we should welcome the US plans for high-speed rail. Read the rest of this entry »

In the US the controversy about General McChrystal’s interview published in the Rolling Stone magazine has exploded. And not at the best time for President Obama who has a number of problems in his hands, specially the disaster about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

After the intense ‘grilling’ that a US congressional committee put BP chief executive,Tony Hayward, last Thursday one would have expected that afterwards we would have concentrated in solving the disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Read the rest of this entry »

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a tragedy in more ways than one. Unfortunately, in our anger and impotence to solve it we have been too quick to find a culprit: BP, which contrary to what most people think -even President Obama made that mistake- does not stand for British Petroleum but for Beyond Petroleum. Read the rest of this entry »

While everyone blames mostly BP for the terrible disaster that the explosion on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon has created, the Obama administration is beginning to receive criticism that in view of what is transpiring seems to deserve. Read the rest of this entry »

It turns out that while we are getting rather upset about Iran building new nuclear power plants, we are planning to do the same… Well, of course it is not the same, Iran is doing it to turn the uranium fuel rods in power plants into plutonium and use it for warheads. Us, we already have as many nuclear arms as we might need and only need our power plants to generate energy that will stop us for being dependent of those countries from which we import foreign oil. Read the rest of this entry »

Today President Obama and Vice President Biden were in Tampa, Florida. The president, in a move that is almost a tradition, is going to travel to several states to bring the plans he talked about in his State of the Union last Wednesday to the citizens. The idea is to try to convince them so that the plans can be implemented. Read the rest of this entry »