Category Archives: Energy and Natural Resources

On Fossil Fuel Energy Subsidies: A Reply To The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is asking the world to end energy subsidies on fossil fuels. It wants governments to price-in the cost of the negative externalities from the use of coal, oil and … Continue reading

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Facts: Why United States Of America Is Ever Closer To The Next Big Energy Crisis And Stagflation By 2017

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (All numbers in this article are rounded up to nearest whole number. Source: CIA World Fact Book) Proven domestic US oil reserves: 20 billion barrels Unproven reserves (assumed): 20 billion barrels Domestic consumption: … Continue reading

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The Investigation Of Sam Bacile

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Arab Spring, the raison d’etre of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, is on the eve of going up in flames, as if fire on ice. An obscure man in Los Angeles … Continue reading

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NASA’s One Billion Dollars For Commercial Space

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this copyrighted proprietary Transformations, LLC document is two fold: (a) provision technical advisory services to the three (3) contractors on the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) contract and … Continue reading

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After The Wars, Now What?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Today, I received a letter from The White House by email thanking me for writing about the Iraq war. It had caught me by surprise because the response came more than 9 years after … Continue reading

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The Arithmetic Of Sustainable Global Integration

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I Me I am an American of Asian-Indian origin by US naturalization since September 24, 2002. I was an honorable government civil servant, a regular long term employee of the Board of Governors … Continue reading

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Fall, Forgiveness And Resurrection

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I The Fall (From the south aisle of Ely Cathedral. A Victorian series of Genesis windows by Gerente) The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living And … Continue reading

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America’s Syrian Challenge And Iranian Opportunity

By Snehal Manjrekar, India Subject Matter/Language Editor: Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The first of decade the new millennium was one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of human civilization. It witnessed formation of asset bubbles, corporate governance … Continue reading

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American Energy? Coal: The “Only One Of The Above” Solution

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The “All of the above” approach to energy policy is not working, no matter what the United States Chamber of Commerce, the largest lobby for business in America, says. Solyndra has answered that … Continue reading

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Reply To Barack Obama: American Energy? First Things First. Build The All-Electric Car And The Rest Will Happen

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget is generous to manufacturers and it lowers corporate taxes across the board to 28%. But will it create jobs on a war footing while containing inflation? To take … Continue reading

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