I read a lot of letters of complaints about the cost of everything, but see no solutions. First, I would like to comment on "Our Opinion" printed May 25. There is one paragraph that needs to change one letter. "Someone who knows a little politics and how Washington works is U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson." I would like to drop the a. Here are my answers-questions: Why are we not drilling in the Gulf and other locations? Why are we not building coal to oil plants? Why are not converting slate to oil? Why do we still have a 53 cents a gallon on imported ethanol? ...more

May 31, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - Alternative energy sources, energy conservation, a national health care system and the national debt were among the issues U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam addressed Thursday during a town hall meeting at Florida College. "We have to get off fossil fuels for the future," said Putnam, R-Bartow, who discussed building nuclear plants and investing in clean coal energy while focusing on using today's resources wisely. Putnam, whose district covers portions of Hillsborough, Polk and Osceola counties and includes cities such as Temple Terrace, Lakeland, Bartow and Winter Haven, said health care is a hot topic, especially among the Democratic candidates in this year's presidential campaign. ...more

May 30, 2008

Energy Independence The next time you cuss out the gas pump, stop and think of those who have caused this problem. ...more

May 11, 2008

Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current - the mighty Gulf Stream - rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion gallons per second. And it never stops. ...more

February 15, 2008

Do-Nothing Congress After reading former Sen. Bob Graham's article "How To End The Gridlock In Politics" (Commentary, Feb. 3), I would enjoy offering my viewpoints concerning Graham's bullets. ...more

February 9, 2008

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the huge amounts of cooling water they need to operate. ...more

January 24, 2008

The Largo plant produced nuclear weapons during the cold war, and the government promised to pay the medical bills of workers who were sick from radiation and chemical exposure. ...more

January 15, 2008

Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once-demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy. ...more

January 13, 2008

Nuclear power, an industry once headed toward certain extinction, is back in play. ...more

December 17, 2007

Careers in nuclear engineering look especially bright as demand for electricity and other factors spark a turnaround for the industry. ...more

December 16, 2007