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We held out for as long as we could. We really did. Despite an intense and relentless lobbying effort from my son, the Honeybee and I stayed strong and denied his repeated requests for a cell phone. And, boy, were there a lot of requests. I can’t remember the exact day he first requested his own cell phone, but I am quite certain the first letters he learned in school weren’t A-B-C. They Continue reading My Teenage Son, His Cell Phone, and the Bill for $1,055.20 I was standing in line at a local electronics store the other day when I struck up a conversation with the guy ahead of me who had a basket full of battery chargers and AA rechargeable batteries. It turns out he had decided to replace all of the batteries in his house with the rechargeable kind. Between the batteries and the chargers this guy plunked down over a hundred bucks! He Continue reading Why Rechargeable Batteries Are Rarely Cost Effective When the Honeybee and I bought our last computer, there was quite a debate over whether or not we should pay the extra money for the added convenience of a wireless keyboard and/or mouse. The fear, of course, was in the uncertainty of whether or not we would end up spending a small fortune over the life of the computer buying replacement batteries. We ultimately decided to Heck with it (wherever Continue reading The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards Our homes today are loaded with more electronic media and electric appliances than ever before. According to data published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. household electricity consumption increased at an average rate of 1.4 percent per year from 1970 through 2007. But while the added electrical loads result in easier and more pleasant lives for us, it also brings higher and higher electricity bills. The Anatomy of an Electricity Continue reading Approximate Energy Costs of Your Home Appliances The other day the light bulb on my porch finally gave up the ghost and so I ran down to my favorite hardware store to pick up a new one. When I got there I was presented with a choice that many people struggle with: is it better to buy the regular old incandescent bulb or spend significantly more money for the energy efficient compact fluorescent light (CFL) instead? In my Continue reading Is the Payback Period on Energy Efficient CFL Bulbs Too Long? As summer time creeps up on us, I am once again forced to consider one of the great debates of all time: should I buy a gas or charcoal barbecue? Yes, it’s that time again. My current gas grill is ready to be retired from service and so I am now in the market for a new one. When it comes to gas or charcoal, hard-core grillers love to debate considerations such Continue reading Gas or Charcoal BBQs: Which One Is More Cost Effective? |
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How Mexico Can Save Its Oil Industry: Sell Baja California to the US
Another economic disaster looms for both the US and Mexico and something needs to be done in the near future to stop it.
Mexico is currently the fifth largest oil producer in the world and the third biggest supplier of crude oil to the United States, but production has been declining at its mammoth Cantarell oil field so drastically that the country is now expected to become a net importer of
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