For The Madera Tribune
Letters: Needless losses
Several times a year, we lose power out here. Very seldom is it weather related. It is mostly birds of prey, shorting out the service and...
Tom Elias
Opinion: Refiners win latest round; accountability could be coming
The cheating, price-gouging refiners who produce most California gasoline have won another round. Average prices per gallon have fallen...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Michael Koryta, ‘Rise the Dark’
Michael Koryta’s “Rise the Dark” (2016, 445 pages in paperback edition) is the sequel to “Last Words,” which I reviewed last week. Aside...
Tyler Takeda
Opinion: Doubt removed, oil refiners gouging us
There was some room for doubt back in February, when gasoline prices rose precipitously: Until the oil companies who refine most...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: No gas stations? Is this the future?
The story of climate change is one of gloom and doom. We hear forecasts about melting icebergs, rising ocean levels, disappearing...
Tom Elias
Opinion: Will state regulators kill solar?
If California’s often misguided utility regulators wanted to prove they are determined to favor privately owned electric companies over...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Attacking U.S. energy resources
Recently, I read an advertisement for “The Island,” a just-released novel by Ben Coes. The brief blurb informs us that the book is about...
Tom Elias
Opinion: Blackout blackmail possible in August outages
Never before in California’s long experience with power blackouts have systematic, preplanned outages been as short as the 20-minute to...
