Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

L Launchtoberfest in Fort Collins on Oct. 6 looks like a great time and a good opportunity to find out more about this initiative to tri...

Republicans in the West (including Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso ) continue to play "That Darn Gubment" game. This comes from a 6/26/...

Casper Star-Tribune energy reporter Dustin Bleizeffer reports this in today’s issue: Two coal-based power projects planned for southwest Wy...

New York Times reporter Matthew L. Wald will visit the University of Wyoming in Laramie next week to talk about global energy issues. Wald w...

The Corner Stop has stopped stocking E85 for my 2000 minivan. I can drive up I-80 West to Buford for a fill-up, but that's 26 miles away...

Now that The Corner Stop in Cheyenne has decided to quick stocking ethanol for local flex-fuel vehicles such as my Dodge Caravan, I now have...

In my constant effort to reduce my carbon footprint (size 12EE), I've been running my Dodge Caravan on E85. There's only one station...

When looking for easy answers to difficult questions, turn on CNN. This morning, it featured a periodic update on rising gas prices called ...

I gassed up with E85 yesterday, at $2.84 per gallon. I also received a bonus sermon by a fellow E85 user with an evangelical bent. Something...

Last Monday, I paid $2.60 per gallon for E85 at our town's lone ethanol station. I pumped just a few gallons, as I always do between pay...

I had to blink back my disbelief when I ethanoled-up yesterday morning at Cheyenne's one-and-only biofuels station. The price per gallon...

Me and Dubya have this sticker on the bumpers of our respective vehicles (his an 8 m.p.g. gas-fueled limo and mine a 2000 Yuppie Detroit-mad...

Me and Dubya agree that a spring day ain't complete without an alternative-fuel vehicle parked out in front of the house: The Prez plugs...

Tag-Team Death Match: Biofuels vs. Petrol Me and Pres. Bush and our corn squeezin's can beat any ten of you fossil-fuel guzzling oil-add...

Little Ethanol Producers on the Prairie Writers on the Range contributor John Krist, also a columnist for the Ventura (Calif.) Star, wrote ...

Encourage Prez’s New Interest in Biofuels Imagine that Pres. Bush never invaded Iraq or condoned torture or advocated spying on U.S. citizen...

For Lack of an Energy Policy, the War Was Lost (From the Get-Go) From Reuters 2/21/07: "U.S. retail gasoline prices jumped 5.5 cents ov...

Our Crop, Our Fuel, Our Country Did you know that there are 113 ethanol-producing plants in the U.S., most located in the Farm Belt? And tha...

What is the True Price of Ethanol? Leave it to London’s The Guardian Unlimited to put into perspective the issue of corn-based ethanol. In a...

Alt-energy in the News for 2007 Lots of news on the energy front this week. Corn prices are going up due to demand from ethanol distillers. ...