McCain breaks ranks on filling the SPR

Another U.S. senator has come out against buying up more and more oil for our emergency store while prices are so high.This time, it’s from the other side of the aisle and you might call him a guy with some standing these days. Sen. John McCain addressed the economy last week in a speech before a small-business roundtable in New York.The most important item in my opinion was his comment on adding

Why insurance companies love red light cameras

I confess that I have a lot of mixed feelings about red-light cameras. On the one hand, I can’t count the number of times I have almost been T-boned by a red-light runner, much less the number of times I have seen it almost happen. On the other hand, people still run the monitored lights in high enough numbers that cities – and companies – keep using the systems.A lot of folks think the cameras

Stashing more oil into SPR ludicrous

OK, sometimes the Congressional Record is not the most thrilling read, and sometimes it is. Monday’s comments from Sen. Bryon Dorgan land in the latter category. His topic was the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is of course the DOE’s own emergency petroleum store and the largest emergency supply in the world.In his rant regarding an announcement made by the Energy Department last week that it