by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
In addition to other announced asset sales, what we are told is that BP is leaving North America. Between the Gulf of Mexico disaster, problems with their N.A. pipelines, the Texas City refinery explosion a few years ago, other liability issues, and a large scale public relations attacks [...]

by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
The next ecological oil disaster will occur with our oil pipelines running from Alaska and Canada down to the lower 48. To date the pipelines have been relatively trouble free, though not without accident. The once feared ecological damage to wild life and terrain simply has not occurred. [...]

by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
Construction trades. The local buzz is that there is activity out there. Between public works and some minor improvements in conventional activity, the word from the labor unions is that they are now looking for a September pickup in activity.
New home builders. The major home builders are changing [...]

by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
Brain Drain in Heavy Industry
Early buyouts, natural attrition or layoffs are causing a serious brain drain in our heavy industry. This is serious and negatively impacting company morale, efficiencies, and productivity. Worse yet, in some cases it could become dangerous to life and property.
“Too many experienced people have [...]

by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
Could it be that the U.S. has all the oil we need right here within our own borders? The answer could be yes, if you look and listen to the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, (www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911).  With new technology and a base price of $70-80 [...]

by Gary S. Meyers
This week the world convenes in Copenhagen to discuss greenhouse gasses. The results of the discussions can have far reaching implications to the tune of trillions of dollars spent on fixing a problem, which some many say is either exaggerated or simply wrong. For the past two weeks news of “Climate Gate” [...]

by Gary S. Meyers
CO2 is critical for life to exist on this planet, just ask any high school kid who took biology. Yet, through some strange quirk of a court ruling, the EPA just might declare CO2 a dangerous substance and limit when, where and how it is produced.
The idea is simple. By using the [...]

A lawsuit still winding its way through the courts charges that KBR, a division of Halliburton, knowingly exposed U.S. troops in Iraq to hexavalent chromium—the same poisonous material described in the movie “Erin Brockovich”—as part of “receiving billions of dollars of no-bid contracts for work in Iraq in 2003.” Though begun in 2003, the jurisdiction of either US or Iraqi law is being debated now.

by Gary S. Meyers and L. Steven Platt
Regardless of the scare headlines—that we will be running out of energy and that the end is near—you can count rising prices to spur a free enterprise economy to find a way.
Oil under Paris. The nightmare scenarios of the world running out of oil are simply not true. [...]

by Gary S. Meyers
It has been suggested that this article should not be written–because we write about economics and not politics. However, when global warming became a political issue, trumping science and closed off debate of fact, it returns us to the persecution of Galileo and DiVinci. This is not right. Our article follows.
Earlier this [...]