Everybody’s talking about America’s oil addiction. At a rate of over 87 million gallons per day, America uses over one quarter of the oil consumed worldwide. This is comparable to the amount of oil consumed by China, India, Russia, Japan, and Germany combined.
For the worlds most influential regions, I have computed an oil prosperity index [...]
This is a topic that I, as most Americans, know very little about. I thought it would behoove my understanding of reality to run a brief survey of various relevant topics from the interwebs.This is not a particularly profound writeup, merely a quick survey of some of the important facts of which one should be aware
Several members of the Readership have confronted me demanding new material. I have been hesitant for a while, if not a few weeks, due to lack of stuff to talk about. In reviewing a few flagship blogs, I have decided to take the usual path of selecting some topics at random, in-so-much-as they might bear [...]
I recently received a letter from a British organization informing me that I was under investigation for having not purchased a TV license. This was my response:
Mail Recipient of John Hales
National Enforcement Division
TV Licensing
Bristol, England
Dear sir or madame:
I am an American who is visiting Oxford for the year. I was contacted by post a few [...]
So, how’s everyone doing tonight? Right on, man, right on. A blog:
Getting Into England
I got into London-Heathrow airport around 8:00am GMT last Wednesday. I then paid £18.00 for a taxi to St. Giles Hotel in Feltham.
“Feltham?! Not even Londoners go there!”
- Rebecca’s friend at East Anglia.
But what happened after that will not be covered yet. [...]
So, we’re trying something new today. I’m writing this blogpost in Dreamweaver and decided to make a navigation panel so if you don’t feel like reading this whole thing at all at once you can skim over the content via the navigation menu. Also, I made the navigation thing first so I’m going to stay [...]