A stalemate has developed over a possible roll-back of part of a nearly 25 percent electricity rate increase for Progress Energy Florida before it goes into effect, in January. Jeffrey J. Lyash, the utility's president and chief executive officer, basically stuck to his guns in a Dec. 15 letter to state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, and state Rep. Peter Nehr, R-Tarpon Springs. ...more

December 15, 2008

In his previous letters, Dallas Dunlop wrote that there were no significant oil deposits in the Baltimore Canyon or anywhere else off shore for that matter. Now his mystical geological sources are telling him personally that there are no oil deposits in the eastern gulf either. ...more

July 8, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson is calling on Congress and the Bush administration to investigate skyrocketing fuel prices. Good for him. Although we are not sure if anything will come of it, give Bronson credit for at least trying to do something. "We're being taken for a ride, and the evidence is everywhere, from the escalating prices we pay to fill up our vehicles with gasoline to the purchase of virtually all consumer goods," Bronson said Friday. "It is almost impossible to conceive of a product that is not dependent on oil in either its production or transportation to the stores in which it is sold." ...more

May 24, 2008

The success of the federal $150 billion emergency economic stimulus plan will hinge on whether American consumers do what they do best - spend, spend, spend. ...more

January 26, 2008

TECO is seeking government grants to build a giant wind turbine somewhere near Tampa. ...more

November 26, 2007