Category: Energy

Court Blocks EPA Biofuels Mandate

Posted on by William Teach

The big news on court decisions was about the Obama violating the Constitution when he made 3 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (which made Lawyers, Guns, and Money’s Scott Lemieux go barking moonbat with his headline). Yet, another was just as important but slid under the rada (Daily Caller) A federal court […]

 

Fuel Transport in the Age of Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

When economic activity is guided by the pursuit of profit, everything is forced to make sense; resources are allocated in the most efficient way possible, like water finding its natural level. When economic activity is guided by government coercion, everything is forced not to make sense; resources are wasted on lunacy like this: A cargo […]

 

Government Green Energy Leech Calls for Death of Critics

Posted on by Dave Blount

Be careful when relaying information relating to the massive sums of money our rulers are flushing down green energy boondoggles — unless you want sociopathic moonbats like Kerrilee Ann Crosby calling for your death: A woman angered by a Watchdog investigation into the government lab where she works retaliated by threatening mass murder against this […]

 

Green Energy Equals American Decline

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Chinese auto company having just won the auction for bankrupt A123 Systems, one of Barack Obama’s car battery darlings that received a $249 million grant from the Obama government further illustrates why the White House playing capital investor with taxpayer funds investor is a very bad idea. When Obama took office in January 2009, […]

 

Election Means More Cronyism, Attacks on Coal

Posted on by Brian Garst

Following President Obama’s reelection, coal stocks took a hit in anticipation of an acceleration in his war on coal. Lining up against coal as well is the natural gas industry, which has cozied up to both the administration and environmental groups in an effort to knee-cap its energy competition: Public outrage at cronyism and corporate […]

 

Another Obama Energy Dud

Posted on by Michael Fell

A123 Systems, a Massachusetts-based battery manufacturer, received $249 million from Barack Obama’s failed stimulus program. : At the time they received the money, A123 pledged that the nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus money would lead to the creation of thousands of new jobs. Said company President David Vieau when the company opened a factory in Livonia, Mich., in […]

 

Surprise! Another Obama Admin. Backed Solar Company Goes Bankrupt

Posted on by William Teach

I’m sure this is somehow George Bush’s fault (Heritage) A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week. Satcon Technology Corp. announced the […]

 

Chevy Volt Battery Plant Floundering Despite $151 Million from Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long list of Obama-touted and tax-supported “green energy” companies is on the verge of going out of business, this time in Michigan. Two years ago, President Obama visited the LG Chem battery plant in Holland, Michigan. Obama then hailed the plant saying, “You are leading the way in showing how manufacturing jobs […]

 

Surprise! Consumers Less Willing To Pay For “Green” Products

Posted on by William Teach

The main problem with “green” is that it’s no longer about being environmentally friendly: it’s about globull warming, the climate change hoax, hotcoldwetdry. Every issue has been linked, no matter how commonsense, and consumers are constantly barraged with preachy advertisements and news reports. Oh, and they realize that there are a ton of scams, and […]

 

Washington Post: Hey, Obama’s Chevy Volt Is A Real Stinker

Posted on by William Teach

It’s never a good thing when a Democrat loses the editorial board of a major liberal leaning paper GM’s vaunted Volt is on the road to nowhere fast The Energy Department study assumed that General Motors would produce 120,000 plug-in hybrid Volts in 2012. GM never came close to that and recently suspended Volt production […]

 

Sierra Club: Hey, North Jersey, You Really Don’t Need Power

Posted on by William Teach

It’s interesting to note that every time there is a big storm that knocks out power, people immediately assault power companies for failing to spend oodles of money upgrading their infrastructure. Like just last year in New Jersey. This past July saw people and government freaking out on PepCo, a Maryland power company, along with […]

 

Good News: Wind Turbines Supposedly Making People Sick

Posted on by William Teach

Proponents of wind turbines say that this is all incidental and coincidental. Enough so that there is actually a medical condition name for it (UK Daily Mail) It was Uplawmoor’s tranquility and wild beauty that drew civil servant Aileen Jackson to settle there 28 years ago. She’d had enough of life in the big city. […]

 

Spain’s Present is Obama America’s Future

Posted on by Michael Fell

Although Spain is not as bad off as Greece, a look at Spain’s current economic reality reveals the future of America under four more years of Barrack Obama. Despite European commitments to inject up to 100 billion euros into Spain’s faltering banking system, bank withdrawals have accelerated.:  During July, doubts about Spain’s financial system caused […]

 

White House to Blame for High Gas Prices

Posted on by Michael Fell

With Hurricane Isaac’s slamming the American gulf coast putting a temporary halt to oil production and refinery output, consumers can expect to see higher prices at the pump. Just in time for the Labor Day holiday. Before Hurricane Isaac came along, gasoline costs were at an almost four month high.:  The nationwide average rose to […]

 

Politico Offers 4 Roadblocks To Romney’s Energy Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Romney just released his detailed energy plan Thursday morning, a 21 page plan that outlines how America can strive for energy independence. Fortunately, Politico is there to attempt to shoot it down just a few hours after it was released, offering four roadblocks Energy experts say Mitt Romney’s goal to achieve North American energy independence […]

 

America Needs a New Sheriff

Posted on by Michael Fell

The American labor market showed few signs of new life in the latest jobs report.:  : First time filings for unemployment benefits rose again last week to a one-month high.:  Claims rose for a second week, by 4,000 for the period ended Aug. 18.:  After economists had predicted 365,000 new claims, the number climbed to 372,000. […]

 

Mitt Romney To Offer Energy Independence Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Sorry, Obama peeps, it does not include energy from unicorns and fairies (Washington Post) Mitt Romney on Thursday will outline a plan that he projects would achieve North American energy independence by 2020 by opening new areas for offshore oil drilling, starting in Virginia and the Carolinas, and by empowering the states to lease federal […]

 

OK, So Now Geothermal Energy Is Verbotan By Climate Weenies

Posted on by William Teach

Remember how they wanted every alternative type of energy? Well, they block transmission lines for the “clean energy” projects, block solar and wind projects, don’t like hydrothermal because of a raft of reasons, and now, geothermal is evil (Global Warming Policy Foundation) The most promising renewable energy of all is making pro-renewable Greens frightened and […]

 

Obama Administration Has Your Drilling, But Wants Your Oceans, Too.

Posted on by Unicorn Jones

Remember when that oil rig exploded off of the Gulf of Mexico, giving the Obama Administration the perfect excuse to exercise complete control over our offshore drilling? Yeah, it might not be the top priority going into the campaign, but American drilling has been severely impacted – and continues to be severely impacted by Obama […]

 

Surprise! GASLAND Loaded With Half-Truths

Posted on by Matt Vespa

With GasLand 2 on the horizonand just in time to influence the 2012 election, more and more discrepancies are coming out about the film. : The documentary, directed by Josh Fox, details the horrors of fracking and the environmental damage it leaves in the process. : One of the most famous scenes in the film deals with […]

 

Crazy Juan Cole: Coal Should Be Criminalized

Posted on by William Teach

I’m sure all Warmists (cough JoeB cough) will now refuse to use any power that comes from coal, right? (via Tom Nelson) (Informed Consent) Muller’s study analyzed all the weather data available since 1750 and found that the average temperature of the earth increase by 1 percent from 1750 to 1850, and has increased another […]

 

American Energy Means American Recovery

Posted on by Michael Fell

There is widespread consensus that America needs to become energy independent. America’s ever growing dependence on foreign energy puts her at ever-greater risk in a world that is increasingly unstable. Given the current political upheavals in the Middle East, this reality is slapping America in the face with increasing costs at the pump, which are […]

 

Obama Chasing Spain’s Failure

Posted on by Michael Fell

Just last year Obama was telling America how “green” energy technology was the guaranteed pathway to energy security and independence: “The future is here. We are poised to transform the ways we power our homes and our cars and our businesses”. He said America risked falling behind the rest of the world in the design, […]

 

Bernie Goldberg: Media Will Ignore Obama’s Five Major Broken Promises

Posted on by Matt Vespa

The liberal media will make sure to go through the motions and occasionally hit President Obama with some critical points, but they will hold their fire when it comes to addressing five major unfulfilled campaign promises, former CBS reporter and media critic Bernie Goldberg told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly last night. Given that the latest […]

 

Simulus Funded Nevada Geothermal Close To Going Bust

Posted on by William Teach

Back on June 26th, Obama cheerleading The Politico was rating “green” companies that received DOE loans, and determined that Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) as a “mixed bag” Nevada Geothermal: The company’s Blue Mountain project in northern Nevada received a partial loan guarantee for $98.5 million in 2010. The project is already generating power, but production […]

 

People Pretty Upset Over Unintentional Earth Hours

Posted on by William Teach

Last November, a United Nations report told us just how evil air conditioning and refrigerators are. And a couple weeks ago the NY Times had a hissy fit over A/C, but, of course, wants those in developing nations to bear the burden of having their A/C restricted. Warmist policies would lead to rolling brownouts and […]

 

Side Splitter: Politico Says Jury Still Out On “Green” Jobs And DOE Loans

Posted on by William Teach

So says the headline On green jobs and DOE loans, the jury is still out Yet, the information they provide right at the beginning blows that lie right out of the water The Energy Department’s clean-energy loan program hasn’t yet yielded the kind of moonshot-style success that President Barack Obama envisions would transform the U.S. […]

 

UK To Give Up On On-shore Wind Power Subsidies By 2020

Posted on by William Teach

Why? Because they are unsightly, make lots of noise, cannot be depended on to produce power when it is not windy or too windy, what power they produce cannot be stored, and really, they only people who benefit are those that own and work for the companies that run them. The average citizen isn’t seeing […]

 

Good Grief: Dallas Reboot Incorporates “Green”

Posted on by William Teach

For those who watched the new Dallas reboot (I didn’t. Wasn’t interested in the first, not interested in this one), did you catch the underlying theme? No? Well, let Time Magazines Ecocentric explain it In case you thought that the battle between big oil and alternative fuel had cooled down, Hollywood has proven that the […]