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Wind Power Won't Cool Down the Planet
"Often enough it leads to higher carbon emissions."
8/23/2010
Permalink ID:16197
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8/23/2010
Permalink ID:16172
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Stealth Energy Tax Hike on Senate Agenda for September
"In a little remarked upon move earlier this month, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) put forward a legislative proposal to raise taxes on energy companies by stripping them of the ability to claim a key tax deduction."
8/15/2010
Permalink ID:15996
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The Bailout Singularity
"Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth. An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages – one in five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion… The move, if it happens, would be a stunning political and economic bombshell less than 100 days before a midterm election in which Democrats are currently expected to suffer massive, if not historic losses."
".....This vote-buying scheme would come on top of $400 billion in taxpayer dollars already pumped into Fannie and Freddie… just a few years after Democrats assured us there was “no crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae” (Maxine Waters) and the corporations had no “safety and soundness problems” (Barney Frank.)"
8/9/2010
Permalink ID:15791
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Bio-Bug: Car run on human waste is launched
"A car that runs on methane gas produced by human waste has been launched and its makers claim drivers cannot tell the difference."
8/8/2010
Permalink ID:15772
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Global Warming, R.I.P
"In a remarkable monograph, Roy W. Spencer presents hard evidence that 75% of the observed warming since the start of the 20th century is due to natural processes. He offers a detailed model describing how one of these processes, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), operates in the real world. Most importantly, he demonstrates that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a minor contributor to a global climate largely insensitive to man-made CO2."
8/7/2010
Permalink ID:15733
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The Prophet of the Ruling Class
"For hundreds of years, human beings have used lead for those purposes, and life on earth has not exactly come to an end. Now we are told that the lead used in hunting and fishing is harming animals and fish, and it must stop. The scary thing is that one individual, EPA Director Lisa Jackson, has the power to impose such a ban."
8/5/2010
Permalink ID:15708
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"Common sense requires the EPA to Acknowledge that the wind blows and so does dust"
This is from a letter twenty-one senators recently signed and sent to EPA. The senators also state:
"We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether it's livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event."
8/4/2010
Permalink ID:15682
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Krauthammer: "The Chevy Volt Is A Disaster"
"Charles Krauthammer: "The only people who are going to buy it are going to be very rich people who are going to park it outside their townhouse for ostentatious show of how virtuous they are while they drive around in their Cadillac Escalade.""
8/2/2010
Permalink ID:15633
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Quick, Someone Tell Obama: They're locking up onshore oil, too!
"The Interior Department is preparing to develop its first comprehensive management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), a move environmentalists say could permanently remove large sections of the massive reserve from future energy development."
7/29/2010
Permalink ID:15567
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Time Mag Shocker: Rush Limbaugh Might Have Been Right About Oil Spill
"Time magazine reported Thursday that Rush Limbaugh might have been right about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico not being the environmental disaster that everyone warned."
7/29/2010
Permalink ID:15559
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The U.S. wind industry is in distress - bailout?
"Science and economics show claims that wind energy can substitute for fossil fuels to be just so much hot air. Wind power installations have plummeted in the reality-based world. In a story headlined "wind installations drop 71% in the first half and the forecast past 2010 looks dreary."
7/28/2010
Permalink ID:15535
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Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation
"The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda."
7/28/2010
Permalink ID:15531
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Hugo Chavez Warns of Cutting Off Oil to U.S.
"Says Venezuela Will Stop Selling Energy to America if Attacked by U.S.-Allied Colombia."
7/25/2010
Permalink ID:15488
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Never let an oil spill go to waste – create a new government agency!
"Obama isn’t letting the oil spill go to waste. Dissatisfied with how his repeated attempts at job killing drilling moratoriums are being smacked down in court, he’s recycled his coal plant bankruptcy plan and broadcast his intent to drown drillers in regulation. He’s also using it to promote his shiny new National Ocean Council."
7/24/2010
Permalink ID:15474
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Climate bill on the ropes
"The Senate climate bill has been at death’s door several times over the past year. But with the days before the August recess quickly slipping away, the case may truly be terminal now."
7/20/2010
Permalink ID:15348
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Russia`s Zarubezhneft to drill Cuba oil shelf in 2011
"Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft plans to drill a shelf near Cuba in 2011, Zarubezhneft CEO Nikolai Brunich said on Wednesday."
7/15/2010
Permalink ID:15222
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7/13/2010
Permalink ID:15193
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Lieberman, Kerry make last-ditch appeal on scaled-back climate bill
"Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) this week will start circulating a draft of their narrowed plan as they try to convince Democratic leaders to include a carbon pricing component in a broad energy package that may hit the Senate floor next week."
7/13/2010
Permalink ID:15171
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Obama Administration Issues New Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling
"The Obama administration issued a new moratorium Monday on deep-water offshore drilling that is no longer based on water depth and stresses new evidence of safety problems, hoping the revised ban will pass muster with the courts after the initial one was rejected."
7/12/2010
Permalink ID:15161
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Oil Spill Response is “Stuck on Stupid”
"If you only listened to President Obama, you wouldn’t even know an oil spill is occurring in the Gulf. He hasn’t spoken publicly about the oil spill since June 22 when he announced it was on a laundry list of items discussed at a cabinet meeting."
7/12/2010
Permalink ID:15139
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7/10/2010
Permalink ID:15099
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First rig sails away over drilling ban
"drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling."
7/10/2010
Permalink ID:15094
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Obama touts $400M loan to solar company run by corrupt congressman’s nephew
"As Ed pointed out last week, President Obama announced in his July 3 weekly address that the federal government will back nearly $2 billion in loans to two solar power companies as part of its “green jobs” and stimulus programs. The $2 billion is supposed to produce 5,100 jobs–but most of them are only temporary construction jobs. A company called Abound Solar claims its $400 million loan will produce 1,500 permanent jobs in Colorado and Indiana, and–this is a fact Obama conveniently left out of his remarks–the $1.45 billion loan to the Spanish company Abengoa Solar will only produce 85 permanent jobs. That’s right: 85. I’m not cutting off any zeros."
7/10/2010
Permalink ID:15088
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Obama loses drilling moratorium appeal
"The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government's emergency request to stay that judge's order pending appeal."
7/8/2010
Permalink ID:15041
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Obama is Strangling Big Oil
"There was no "official" announcement. Not in so many words. Connect the dots of what has occurred in just the past two weeks to deep-water oil drilling, shallow-water drilling, and oil refining. The effect is the same. Barack Obama is shutting down Big Oil."
7/7/2010
Permalink ID:15014
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7/6/2010
Permalink ID:14969
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If the U.S. Won’t Drill Oil Offshore, Other Nations Will
"As reported in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. July 2, Respol YPF SA, a Spanish company, has announced that next year it will begin drilling exploratory wells off the northern coast of Cuba, just 60 miles south of Key West. Industry experts as well as the U.S. Geological Survey seem confident that substantial deposits of crude oil and natural gas are there for the taking."
7/5/2010
Permalink ID:14966
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Dutch Agency: Our Climate Report is Riddled With Errors, But Global Warming Exists Anyway
"If these clowns worked in the private sector they'd be laughed out of business. But since they're living off the government dime they still get to promote this hoax even though their work has been thoroughly discredited since they're aided and abetted by an uncritical media."
7/5/2010
Permalink ID:14945
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White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill
"CNN's Anderson Cooper reported that evening, "The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches -- 65 feet."
7/4/2010
Permalink ID:14930
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EPA Takes 33% of US Refining Capacity Offline
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program it says violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country's largest refineries in a state of limbo."
"The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The argument recently escalated from a battle over environmental issues into a heated political dispute over states' rights."
7/4/2010
Permalink ID:14928
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Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies
"President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs."
7/3/2010
Permalink ID:14904
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UK committee says fuel prices must stay high to force drivers into efficient cars
" There's definitely a consensus that high gas prices are good for the environment in many ways, but few of us are willing to foot the bill to help out Mother Nature's cause.
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Via: Instapundit
7/3/2010
Permalink ID:14903
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Resounding victory for the future of nuclear energy
"In March of 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE) filed a motion to withdraw its licensing application to construct the geologic nuclear materials repository at Yucca Mountain. If successful, the action would essentially terminate the project. Yesterday, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, the three-judge panel charged with conducting licensing hearings for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected that motion. "
6/30/2010
Permalink ID:14839
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Study: 522,000 jobs lost by 2015 due to Kerry - Lieberman's cap-and-trade bill
"The study was done by Chamberlain Economics LLC at IER's request of the measure - officially known as the American Power Act - being sponsored by Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-CN."
6/29/2010
Permalink ID:14808
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OBAMA AND SENATE DEMS ATTEMPT TO SELL REBRANDED CAP-AND-TRADE ENERGY TAX
"Despite Attempts To Rebrand Legislation, Obama And Democrats Pushing Same Old National Energy Tax."
6/29/2010
Permalink ID:14798
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Bingaman: ‘Difficult to see’ 60 votes for climate change bill
"Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said it is unlikely the Senate can pass legislation that imposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions."
6/27/2010
Permalink ID:14728
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6/27/2010
Permalink ID:14724
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Senate Democrats poised to start energy bill
"Reporting from Washington — With the gulf oil spill creating political opportunity, Senate Democrats will begin crafting a sweeping energy bill this week that could include a first-ever, though more modest, cap on global-warming pollution, believing they must act now despite differences within their ranks and political jitters in an election year."
6/27/2010
Permalink ID:14714
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Harry Reid's high-stakes climate bill gamble
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning a high-risk, high-stakes strategy for bringing climate and energy legislation to the floor ahead of the August recess."
6/25/2010
Permalink ID:14644
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Wind and solar power job fantasies
"Wind turbines are only possible because taxpayers subsidize their production. Navigant Consulting estimated that if federal tax credits for solar power and wind energy were discontinued, these industries would lose 77% of their employees."
6/25/2010
Permalink ID:14643
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6/24/2010
Permalink ID:14635
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6/23/2010
Permalink ID:14573
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