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US Energy Efficiency: We Have Come A Long Way Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The graph below paints a very interesting picture of US energy efficiency and a key structural economic change in this country. For roughly 25 years after WWII, the US economy’s crude oil consumption nearly tripled. Feeding the growth were a booming post-war economy and strong population growth. To put consumption in a different context, the graph shows consumption as a ratio to a dollar of real GDP, on a per capita basis. It shows that consumption per dollar of GDP declined rapidly starting...

Somaliland Accuses Ilhan Omar Of Leaking Classified Congressional Info To Somalia Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJ Media, Another day, another Omar scandal, another piece of evidence indicating foreign loyalties and domestic betrayal. AP Photo/Jim MoneRep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) father participated in genocide in Somaliland, and Omar herself has connections to top Somali thugs, so unsurprisingly there is a natural antipathy between Omar and Somaliland. The latest (resurrected) accusation from the breakaway African republic against Omar is that she leaked classified information to Somali leaders. Ali Hassan Mohamed, former Somaliland minister of information,...

The US Has $50 Billion For Nuclear Waste And Nowhere To Put It Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice,Finland and the United States are exemplifying two opposing approaches to managing the mounting problem of spent nuclear fuel. Finland is about to open the world's first permanent nuclear waste disposal facility. The United States is stuck in a cycle of endless political turnover and resultant gridlock about how to address the more than 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel sitting in temporary facilities around the country, posing a mounting public health...