Jet Lag
Woo hoo! Vacation was fun, lots of stuff happened here in electricity and oil while I was gone. Lots of catching up … which I started at 5 this morning. Aaah, jet lag!
Goin’ on Vacation
GOIN’ ON VACATION: My husband and I are attending a friend’s wedding in London this coming weekend, and are making a vacation of it. Periodic updates if interesting things happen.
A Tribute from the School Across the Street
I live across the street from an elementary school in the Chicago Public School system, and I was just aroused from my writing by cheering and clapping and honking of cars on the main street through my neighborhood. I looked out the window and saw a parade of all of the school’s children, by classroom, …
John Mccrae and World War I Poets
The poem on Megan’s website, “In Flanders Fields”, is by John McCrae, one of the group of WWI poets that wrote so poignantly about the waste and destruction of war. Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are three of the other most renowned WWI poets.
Yo-yo Ma’s Cello Accompaniment
The cello is the most soulful, most personal, most moving musical instrument. Yo-Yo Ma is playing accompaniment to Rudolph Guiliani’s reading of the WTC names, and it’s deeply moving. Reading the names with such intimate accompaniment reminds us of how personal this was and is, and that this is about real people living real, free, …
Market-based Retail Prices Are Crucial For Successful Electricity Restructuring
I have been working on a chapter for a forthcoming book on electricity restructuring, to be published by the Independent Institute. In writing it I wrote some of my most heartfelt arguments for consumer choice and freedom in electricity markets. Retail prices have always played an important role in enabling exchange, and in leading to …
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Another 9/11 Tribute
Megan McArdle has a beautiful poetic tribute on her webpage today.
How Cool Is This?
Canadian scientists have found huge deposits of natural gas deep in Pacific ice. These gas hydrates have the potential to increase our energy supplies dramatically. This article suggests something that’s crucial to our continuing economic growth, and will also lead to environmental benefits — technological change in identifying, finding, and extracting energy from sources that …
Oil Price Update
As I expected, the mounting arguments and persuasion efforts toward attacking Iraq have kept oil prices high, both in New York and in London. This CBS Marketwatch article and this Bloomberg News article summarize the oil market’s movements. Prices are high and hovering, waiting to hear how different countries respond to President Bush’s UN speech …