Category: Energy

Republican Who Co-Authored Light Bulb Law Wants Energy Chair

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s a test for the GOP: do they let this guy have the chairmanship? He has some really good points and some really bad points, yet, we have this little bit of Big Government climate alarmism Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) may have some explaining to do to fellow GOP colleagues as he seeks the chairmanship […]

 

Last Liberal Media Gasp Day: A Reid Loss Could Reopen Nuke Debate

Posted on by William Teach

Politico must see the writing on the way, regarding Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the pull out a scary “if Sharron Angle wins” op-ed disguised as a straight story Opponents of a Nevada nuclear waste dump thought they’d finally managed to kill the Yucca Mountain project. Then came Sharron Angle. The tea party-backed […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Friday Stupid: Denying Climate Change Is Like Denying Santa Claus. Wait, What?

Posted on by William Teach

It’s time for Great Defenses of Global Climate Disruption, featuring….. Rep. Nick Rahall, Democratic incumbent for the U.S. House in the 3rd District, answered six questions posed to him by members of The Register-Herald editorial board earlier this week. After a bunch of questions, we get “Climate change – to deny it exists, to just […]

 

EPA Set To Greenlight Use Of Ethanol 15 This Week

Posted on by William Teach

You’ll remember that I mentioned, back on September 21st, that the EPA was considering greenlight the use of 15% ethanol gasoline, and the confusion it would create. Looks like they do not care, they’re on a mission from Gaia The Obama administration plans to allow higher levels of ethanol for gasoline used by newer cars, […]

 

Chumps Weekly Address Finally Address Jobs, Greenie Ones Which Don’t Exist Yet

Posted on by William Teach

Don’t worry, though, he slammed some people. Just not the ones he thought Over the past twenty months, we’ve been fighting not just to create more jobs today, but to rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation. Our future as a nation depends on making sure that the jobs and industries of the 21st century […]

 

Video: Eco-Fascists in England Want You Dead Unless You Agree With Them

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is an eco-nazi effort going on in England called the 10:10 Campaign and in a video meant to encourage people to join the green effort people that disagree with the eco-nazis are murdered for their skepticism. Apparently murdering those that disagree with you is supposed to be funny. In a Telegraph article, James Delingpole […]

 

EPA May Greenlight E15 Biofuel, Create Confusion

Posted on by William Teach

Welcome to Government World, the wackiest place around! New study green lights EPA to OK 15 percent ethanol blend for older cars With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the turmoil in the Middle East, the continuing concern with greenhouse gases and the need to generate jobs in cutting-edge industries, President Obama has […]

 

Sen. Sherrod Brown Now Blames Green Energy Stimulus Fail On……China!

Posted on by William Teach

Let’s spin the Wheel Of Blame Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is warning that Chinese trade practices in growing markets for renewable energy components could undermine the goals of U.S. energy spending in the big 2009 stimulus law. “They absolutely can,” Brown said in an interview broadcast Sunday. The 2009 stimulus law steered tens of billions […]

 

Tim Scott Celebrates His Birthday…And a Whole Lot More

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

[The above photo is of me and Tim Scott.] This past Friday evening, a party was thrown in honor of Tim Scott’s forty-fifth birthday. As many of you are already aware, Mr. Scott recently won the Republican nomination for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District after a grueling and hard-fought race–therefore, this party was long over […]

 

New Silicon Graffiti Video: The Quotable Harry Reid

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Over the past two centuries, the Democratic Party has had many powerful orators. Needless to say, Harry Reid, the Democrats’ Senate Majority Leader since November of 2006, has failed to live up to this proud heritage on a titanic scale. Which is why, from The Home Office in Carson City, Nevada, we’re proud to present, The Top Ten Harry Reid gaffes!

 

Video: Dan Juneau On Impact of Oil Moratorium on Citizens of Louisiana

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is a very interesting interview with Dan Juneau, President of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI). LABI is a combination of the state chamber of commerce and the state manufactures organization and represents the business interests of the state. There are 35,000 members, companies of all sizes in the Pelican State. Juneau […]

 

Reid’s Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act Only Does The Last

Posted on by William Teach

So, looks like Dingy Harry has introduced his Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability Act.You can read the draft text here. To begin with The Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Accountability Act would ensure that BP pays to clean up its mess. Second, it would invest in Home Star, a bipartisan energy efficiency program […]

 

Video: Jindal Calls Obama’s Actions in Gulf a ‘War’ on Louisiana

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Governor Bobby Jindal gives a speech at the Rally For Economic Survival in Lafayette, Louisiana. Over 11,000 people gathered at the Cajun Dome to protest what they say is an assault on Louisiana’s economy by President Barack Obama. “The fact that the federal government can’t do its job shouldn’t cost thousands of Louisianans OUR jobs.”

 

New Democrat “Energy” Plan Looks To Raise Your Energy Costs

Posted on by William Teach

Why does it seem that every s0-called energy bill actually is about restrictions and taxes, but barely about increase energy production and means? Witness U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will unveil as early as Monday a slimmed-down energy bill seeking to make offshore drilling safer and convert trucks to run on domestic natural gas. […]

 

Obama Wants to Talk Energy… Well, Except for BP Spill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On one hand the administration and its cohorts in the Democrat majority want to use the BP oil spill as an excuse to wildly raise taxes on energy, to instill cap and trade, and to excuse more regulations in order to take control of as much of our national economy as possible, yet on the […]

 

Kerry-Lieberman Energy And “Jobs” Bill Is A Jobs Killer

Posted on by William Teach

Remember this little nugget from John Kerry back on June 6th on ABC’s “This Week”? “Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group … shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon.” Uh huh. PolitiFact […]

 

Obama Fail: Hundreds of Oil Skimmers NOT Being Used in Gulf

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ken Marrero alerted me to this video of Florida Senator George LeMieux alerting the world that there are hundreds of oil skimmers across the country and the federal government has refused to allow them to be transferred to the Gulf to help in the cleanup because — get this — there may be an oil […]

 

Judge Who Struck Down PeBO Drilling Ban Owns Oil Stock – Liberal Freakout Ensues

Posted on by William Teach

As usual, Democrats and their media peeps focus on the personal, rather than the facts The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He’s also a new member […]

 

Wind Farms Paid to Shut Down When the Wind Blows

Posted on by Dave Blount

One of the reasons windmills cannot generate energy efficiently is that the wind doesn’t always blow — and when it does blow, bureaucrats pay wind farms to shut down: Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines because the National Grid cannot use the power they […]

 

PeBO Apparently Bored With The Whole Gulf Oil Spill Thing

Posted on by William Teach

He’s made his speech, visited the Gulf a few times, blamed a whole bunch of people, so, it is time for Obama to move on to other things that have importance to Himself. He had nothing scheduled this weekend, except some golf (we haven’t heard what he did Sunday, but, being Father’s Day, I’d give […]

 

Barton’s Short Lived Gift to the DNC

Posted on by Heather Bachman

Yesterday, Representative Joe Barton issued an apology, first on behalf of the nation and then of himself and called the recent acceptance of the Obama Administration’s orders for BP to pay $20 billion dollars in order to compensate for damage from the spill a “shakedown”.:  This apology was a horrid utterance by a man who […]

 

America Deserves the Apology…Not BP

Posted on by Heather Bachman

BP is deserving of no apology; the real apology, should be to the American people. What is the real “shakedown” are the actions taken by the Obama Administration in order to milk whatever they can get from the BP spill aftermath. While they are happily having speeches cloaked in actions toward BP when in reality […]

 

Robert Reich Calls for Seizing Control of BP

Posted on by Dave Blount

By seizing control of the oil industry, Hugo Chavez has managed to send Venezuela into a tailspin toward economic ruin despite its massive oil reserves. As we have been warned by our own rulers, a similar fate awaits energy companies in the USSA. Don’t believe me? Here’s Rep. Maxine Waters calling for nationalization: The insatiably […]

 

HuffPo: BP Oil Spill Proves We Should All Live In Huts, Ride Horses, And Burn Our Own Feces For Warmth

Posted on by John Hawkins

Peter Daou, who used to come across as semi-moderate — for a liberal anyway — is in full “Apocalypse Now” mode over the BP Oil spill. There’s a lot here to cover, so let’s take it one wild eyed excerpt at a time: A calamity is unfolding before our eyes – the greatest oil spill […]

 

Are You Stupid? Of Course, We Should Keep Drilling Offshore

Posted on by John Hawkins

What’s the alternative? Living in the Stone Age? Every country in the world:  is : highly reliant on oil and while that will eventually change, when a better, cheaper alternative is available, that day could very easily be decades away. The American people understand this and that’s why these poll results are much more realistic than […]