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Don Gulseth

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 12 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 11/12/08 at 05:28 pm in response to Climate change, nuclear power, Next Gen on legislative energy agenda

Simply, you have to pick your poison and support it.

Posted on 09/23/08 at 05:10 pm in response to Bailout package a slam-dunk? Far from it, state's bipartisan congressional delegation says

The current result, I believe has to be called Trickle Down Debt: the result of a trickle down economy.

Posted on 08/21/08 at 04:56 pm in response to Neither McCain nor Obama seems to grasp gas pricing

Nadav Tanners

You are correct Nadev. But the things you are forgetting is the COST to the consumer in loss of required commute time, equity in average size American vehicles, replacing the current vehicle with a higher mileage vehicle, insulating housing and building green. All of this is important to engage in immediately.

We need the consumer to understand energy. Therefore one should not point to other people trying to help the consumer and politician understand energy. It...

Posted on 08/18/08 at 07:41 pm in response to Waking up to the threat of 'peak oil'

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip_gasoline.html
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip_distillate.html

Ron, the above web sites have easy to read graphs and charts from the: Energy...

Posted on 04/15/08 at 08:56 pm in response to With a rising gas tax, what price will we see at the pump?

Each penny affects the demand for gasoline. The supply has an inflexible aspect to it - the distribution factor of petroleum products. Example:
If all pipelines,refineries are operating at 100% of capacity (they are close) and the demand is for 101%, the price may have to move up 10% to reduce demand until the demand is at 100%. Another example is summer gasoline verses winter gasoline. In the winter less gasoline is built out of a barrel of crude because the demand for more heating...