A Tax Upon The Mass Distance Flow of Oil and Coal IS What We Need NOW Let us declare that oil and coal gluttony is a sin, for which the United States as a People owes an environmental Penance Tax. Let us pay for our penance duties and obligations through a barrel per mile tax upon every barrel of oil that flows even one mile in any pipeline beneath or upon the...

Jan 23, 2010

The attached flow diagram depicts the major sources and sinks of the “Coal to Oil” (CtoO or C2O) system. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post...

Jan 18, 2010

“Coal to Oil” is an idea whose time has come. Oliver knew it in his bones. He elicited a promise from his only son that he (the son) would carry the “Coal to Oil” banner when the father had passed on. In the year 2010 the “Coal to Oil” (C2O) idea of Oliver Sullivan shall be brought to life by means of a computer screen and...

Jan 16, 2010

Oliver did the math and determined that under the eastern lands of Montana lay a bed of the finest coal for turning into oil. It was low sulfur content and high water content lignite coal. He chose the word oil, rather than fuel, liquid fuel, and so forth. He said, “the common people understand oil.” He knew the people of Montana and the United...

Jan 10, 2010

I have been giving thought to what I will do when I am temporarily unemployed (beginning in February and lasting for a few weeks). It is always a little scary having no active contract but I am looking forward to this bench time as an opportunity to invest some free time in preparing a proposal, for what I would like to do with my available supply of...