Category: Energy

Obama Thinks You’re Stupid: Pushes Algae For Fuel

Posted on by William Teach

He does, he really does (Via The Lonely Conservative) (Washington Examiner) President Obama admitted today that he does not have a “silver bullet” solution for skyrocketing gas prices, but he proposed alternative energy sources such as “a plant-like substance, algae” as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent. “We’re making new investments […]

 

“progressives” Don’t Care if Americans Suffer at the Pump

Posted on by Michael Fell

There’s widespread consensus in the United States that America needs to become less dependent on foreign oil. America’s growing, ongoing dependence on foreign sources puts her at ever-greater risk in an unstable world. This instability drives the costs higher. “progressives” who feel an overwhelming compulsion to immediately replace America’s existing carbon economy with a green […]

 

GOP Slaps Obama Around On Gas Prices

Posted on by William Teach

And The Politico is not particularly happy about it, but has a rather difficult time defending Obama Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Republicans are licking their chops. It’s a familiar refrain: Once again, GOP lawmakers and conservative commentators are on the attack, blaming President Barack Obama for higher prices at the pump. And […]

 

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From the LA Examiner. Excerpt: U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. : With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs. As part of the Obama green energy program, the […]

 

Rick Santorum’s Sweep Changes the Race

Posted on by Michael Fell

As the final Colorado vote counts were coming in late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, confirming that Rick Santorum scored a hat trick against his Republican competitors, it was becoming clear that a sea change is occurring within the GOP race. More than before, it’s now arguable that the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s candidacy is a […]

 

Car company that got $500 million green energy loan announces layoffs

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From: Politico. Excerpt: In another setback for President Obama’s clean energy loan programs, the recipient of more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans is laying off workers at their Delaware and California operations. Delaware’s News Journal: reports that Fisker Automotive, a California-based electric car start-up company, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff to try […]

 

Obama Set to Cost Each of Us Hundreds a Year in Higher Electric Costs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s avalanche of needless regulations on coal-fueled power plants are going into effect and the net result will be the closing of hundreds of power plants all across the country just when our need for power is increasing. This will absolutely necessitate the cost of our power to skyrocket. But, this is exactly what […]

 

Green Failures

Posted on by Michael Fell

Here are a few of the latest companies to join the growing list of “green” “sustainable energy” failures that have been supported by the current Administration’s deficit “stimulus” spending. All this financing has been done using your tax dollars…well, actually tax dollars to be paid in the future by your grandchildren and great grandchildren to […]

 

How Barack Obama used taxpayer dollars to outsource green energy jobs

Posted on by Wintery Knight

This is from Hans Bader at: GlobalWarming.org. He links to this: ABC News: story. Excerpt: Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. Nearly […]

 

Bummer: NY Times Green Learns The “Pleasures And Pitfalls” Of Solar

Posted on by William Teach

Mostly, the Times writer, Craig Leisher, learns the pitfalls For our year living in the woods of Maine, I wanted a place where I could see and hear wildlife. Someplace both quiet and remote. In our part of Maine, quiet and remote means off the electrical grid. Our summer rental cabin had no electricity except […]

 

Liberal Washington Post Thinks Keystone XL Decision A Bad One

Posted on by William Teach

Rather a surprising editorial from the Washington Post. After discussing the background of Keystone XL and Obama’s decision, we get We almost hope this was a political call because, on the substance, there should be no question. Without the pipeline, Canada would still export its bitumen – with long-term trends in the global market, it’s […]

 

Know What Obama’s Jobs Council Recommended? Drilling For Oil

Posted on by William Teach

Google “oil job creation” and you will find tons of stories how some states, such as North Dakota, are seeing such an influx of new employees that the housing market cannot keep up. That these new employees have money to spend. Oh, and that there are tons of new employees. And then we get (Global […]

 

Good News! $6.5 Billion In Taxpayers Funds At Risk In “Green” Ventures

Posted on by William Teach

We just saw a Friday document dump from the White House, where they were fretting about the planned layoffs at Solyndra. This should bump the fretting up to Category 5 (and probably earn CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson another profanity laced tirade from White House personnel) (CBS News) Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy […]

 

Good News! Electric Car Subsidies Help The 1%!

Posted on by William Teach

Who profits from the electric car subsidies? This should make the Occupiers unhappy, but, since they support Obama and the Democrats overwhelmingly, they will barely make a peep (Fox News) Once again, going green has taxpayers seeing red. This time however, billions in federal subsidies for electric vehicles are going those who need them the […]

 

Spending Bill Includes Block On Light Bulb Standards

Posted on by William Teach

Small victories are victories, if this makes it through all the votes and Obama (who keeps the White House at 78) doesn’t veto it (The Politico) The shutdown-averting budget bill will block federal light bulb efficiency standards, giving a win to House Republicans fighting the so-called ban on incandescent light bulbs. GOP and Democratic sources […]

 

Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive up-to-date and eye-opening book on the most critical issues facing the U.S. Written so anyone will understand, but not so basic as to bore the experienced politico, he analyzes eight issues thoroughly and recommends insightful common sense solutions. At one point the […]

 

‘Historian’ Gets Mouthy At Congressional Hearing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I meant to get to this last week, but “historian” Douglas Brinkley is so forgettable as a writer that it all slipped my mind. But, it’s a slow news day, so let’s take a look at the temper tantrum this hack threw when he visited the House Natural Resources Committee on Nov. 22, shall we? […]

 

Climate Clown James Hansen: on the Government Dole While Accepting $1.6 Million in Additional Income… and Counting

Posted on by Doug Ross

Like the rest of the climate crooks, Hansen appears to be on the warmal colding bandwagon for one reason and one reason alone: the Benjamins: It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is […]

 

Most Transparent Administration Eveh! Pushed To Change Jobs Loss Numbers From Mining Rule

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, remember when the media and liberals excoriated the Bush administration for pressing the EPA to soften its climate change (hoax) reports? The resulting freakout? What happens when the guy who proclaimed that he would change the way business was done in Washington does something similar? Well, pretty much only Fox News bothers to cover […]

 

The “Super Committee” Shows What’s Wrong With America’s Government

Posted on by Michael Fell

Per The Hill online: Friday, November 18, 2011 “In a closed-door briefing Tuesday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the Republican co-chairman of the panel, said divisions among Democrats are standing in the way of an agreement. He told his colleagues the GOP had put multiple offers on the table that Democrats had yet to accept. Boehner […]

 

Actor Ruffalo Wants Obama to Turn Army Corps of Engineers Political

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Ruffalo — you know, the millionaire actor that claims to be part of the 99% — may not be a scientist. But he plays one on mass emailings from left-wing advocacy groups. And with that activism Ruffalo is urging President Obama to turn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from a science-based service to […]

 

Why Is Steubenville, Ohio, A Model Of Economic Success?

Posted on by William Teach

I know the supporters of Obama’s failed and destructive policies would love to say “Obamanomics!” Alas, no (ABC News) Steubenville, Ohio, may not look like a city sitting on a multi-billion dollar industry. Unemployment here reached 15 percent in 2010, and a now-shuttered steel mill — which was once the lifeline of the Steubenville economy […]

 

PG&E’s Catastrophic Failure of Public Trust By Company and Government Both

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long line of explosions and other catastrophic safety failures occurred at the end of September when a natural gas pipeline built and owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ruptured in Roseville, California. This is just of a piece of the failure of PG&E to ensure public safety, a failure that the […]

 

Do Solyndra Emails Show Potential Illegality?

Posted on by William Teach

Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about the push for Solyndra loan coming from the top at the White House. That story came out around 4pm Friday. I, like many others covered it. That story has been heavily re-written by the authors late Friday night (at least the link goes to the story, and […]

 

Even The Washington Post Thinks Dumping Taxpayer Money Into Green Enterprises Is A Bad Idea

Posted on by William Teach

The actual take-away from the Washington Post editorial is that Obama should appear to be more upset, because it looks bad politically for him to be so blase’ about blowing half a billion dollars on a company that was bound to fail (Washington Post) ONCE THE OBAMA administration’s paragon of a clean-energy future, Solyndra has […]

 

Yet Another Taxpayer Subsidized “Green” Energy Company In Trouble

Posted on by William Teach

But, they just wanted to heal the planet, save it from evil mankind, which is killing the planet with trace amounts of a gas necessary for life! And, shockingly, the NY Times covers it: A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run […]

 

Obama Admin Approves $1 Billion In New Solar Loans

Posted on by William Teach

Why? Well, why not? They have all this Monopoly money from the Stimulus to spend, and had to spend it by September 30th, so, what the hell. Here ya go. Enjoy. (Washington Post) The Energy Department on Wednesday approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1 billion for solar energy projects in Nevada and Arizona, […]

 

Joe Romm Admits That Climate Realists Are Winning

Posted on by William Teach

And all because of DICs When it comes to messaging, the right wing media machine has perfected the ability to turn molehills into mountain. Progressives, on the other hand, have perfected the art of turning mountains into molehills. So Joe’s admitting he’s a hardcore progressive with an agenda? Nowhere is that clearer than in the […]

 

The ‘Solar Decathalon’ That Needed a Gas Generator for Cloudy Days

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What happens when the sun refuses to shine on a PR event for solar power… Yeah, look to the right under the sign. Yep, that’s a gas generator powering the “solar” sign. Brett Jacobson was alerted to this hilarious example of the unviable nature of solar power as a reliable source of energy. It was […]