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July 5, 2006

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

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My name is Neil. I am a writer. I am into things such as flood control and increasing energy supplies to drive prices lower.

Today, the price of a barrel of light crude oil for August delivery settled at a record of $75.19. A big reason is that Washington politicians are playing their usual public relations games, but not really doing anything. You see they could kill two ducks with one policy by supporting a flood control policy of building small dams in the mountains where many rivers begin, but they prefer not to do so for what I call patronage reasons.

By thus limiting water flow the government would be not only be able to lower river levels and increase drainage, but also produce cheap hydro power. Remember Dubya’s little High School chemistry lesson: You put the anode here, you put the cathode there. You do the hokey pokey and you get (voila!) hydrogen gas.

In the weeks that follow I hope to keep following this issue. While a little bit is being done in Norh Dakota and Colorado, it is not much.

neil