A long-overdue recommendation

by Slartibartfast

A couple of weeks ago I hopped a link over to The Ergosphere, and liked what I saw.  Engineer-Poet makes arguments for various energy economies to supplant the current gasoline economy, and makes them in a highly quantitative fashion.  If this sort of thing blows your skirt up, check him out.  EP doesn’t write often, but he does write compellingly.  Excerpt:

That’s it, folks.  The ethanol lobby is as foul a pile of money-grubbing liars as has ever graced Tammany Hall or the the oil-for-palaces office at the UN.  They are not even trying to solve America’s energy problems, they are trying to make certain that the problem is never solved so that they can benefit from a demand that their scheme can never sate.  You can confront them with facts, and they will ignore them and continue to push programs which benefit only themselves with the lie that this is good for the nation.

These people disgust me.

If you think this is evidence of a reactionary political bent, think again.  Engineer-Poet takes positions that you might like or dislike, but provides numbers to solidly support those positions.  If you find yourself burnt out on Katrina coverage, the fine distinction between bombs and munitions, or the night of the living Plame newsbreaks, go over and spend a few hours at E-P’s place.