Category: Energy

Would You Be Shocked That “Climate Funds” Have Been Abused?

Posted on by William Teach

Would you be further shocked that the Huffington Post exposes the abuse? If the World Bank and an Indian power utility have their way, the Rampur hydropower project in Northern India will increase global CO2 emissions by 15 million tons, at a cost of $164 million to unsuspecting energy consumers in Sweden. The project is […]

 

Good News! Cost Of CFLs To Skyrocket

Posted on by William Teach

This one’s a few days old, but, puts a bit of knowledge into the legislating people into CFLs unintended consequences In the name of fighting pollution, China has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs soaring in the United States. By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals – which […]

 

EPA to Give Itself Powers to Preemptively Deny Natural Resource Development?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again an Obama regulatory agency tries to give itself wild new powers, powers that would crush American energy and natural resource development, powers meant to quash the business sector. A press release from Resourceful Earth News imparts a warning about the Environmental Protection Agency’s newest powergrab. A lfet-wing Democrat Senator is asking the EPA […]

 

Solyndra: Green Jobbery, Green Robbery

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We have come to learn something about our president. He really loves green. But what we can’t quite decipher is if that green is green jobs and energies or just the good old fashioned green of tax money. Whatever the case, it sure is true that the green of U.S. tax dollars is far more […]

 

Why, Yes, The White House Did Push Hard For The Solyndra Loan

Posted on by William Teach

Some are wondering whether the Solyndra scandal will bring the White House down. I have to say, unless some emails are found that specifically show that Obama knew that there was no possible way that Solyndra would ever be able to compete, and still pushed the loan, the best that will happen will be a […]

 

Post Solyndra, Obama Stands By Throwing Money Down The Green Drain

Posted on by William Teach

Yesterday, we learned that solar panel maker Solyndra, recipient of $535 million in Department of Energy loans via the Stimulus act, was closing shop, laying off 1,100 workers, and filing for Chapter 11 (there are also rumors that they are going to send part of their business to China, but, I can’t find confirmation on […]

 

No Spark: The Unanswered Questions of the Chevy Volt

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every time we turn around these days President Obama is touting the idea that the “future” of America lies in green energy and one of those greenie ideas is an Obama favorite: electric cars. Not to let him down, Government Motors has obliged by pushing the Chevy Volt as the car of the future. But […]

 

Bureaucrats Use Environmentalism to Choke Off Colorado Resources

Posted on by Dave Blount

In Atlas Shrugged, Colorado undergoes a terrific boom that could lift the whole country — until statists crush it into poverty with their demented regulations. Once again the book is proving prophetic, as the federal government tightens a garrote around the state’s throat by listing three weeds as endangered or threatened: The U.S. Fish and […]

 

NY Times: You Aren’t Buying CFLs Because You’re Stupid And Don’t Know Better

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s one from a few days ago (via Tom Nelson). Let’s go through the preamble before we get to the meat YOU may have heard that the federal government wants to limit your choice of light bulbs, starting in January. If only. Thanks to regulations taking effect that month under the Energy Independence and Security […]

 

Before Pipeline Explosion Calif. Utility Spent Millions on Political Campaigning

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in September of 2010, a gas pipeline running underneath the city of San Bruno, California ruptured. The resulting explosion killed eight people. A recently finished investigation has revealed safety and engineering failures at many levels but, sadly, even the state agency charged with investigating seems to be hoping that the failures are hushed up. […]

 

Nanny State Wins: Light Bulb Ban Repeal Fails in House

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If the House Republicans can’t even get rid of one of the most odious examples of nanny statism in the age of Obama, what exactly are they worth? On Tuesday, Rep. Joe Barton (R, Texas) failed in his effort to repeal the incandescent light bulb ban idiotically signed into law by Nanny G.W. Bush. Barton […]

 

Rep Mike Doyle (D-Pa): Hey, Even Edison Would Have Wanted To Ban His Light Bulbs

Posted on by William Teach

Except, Doyle argues that they aren’t really “banned”- they’re better OPINION: BULB Act is dim-witted Great way to start, Mike: insult people who don’t agree with you. In 1879, Thomas Edison invented a way to create light by heating up a thin strip of material (called a filament) until it was hot enough to glow. […]

 

Light Bulb Ban Legislation May Hit House Floor Next Week, Shows Why Gov’t Barely Works

Posted on by William Teach

Looks like the GOP is going to attempt to make it so that those evil incandescent light bulbs won’t be banned starting in 2012 House Republicans plan to bring to the floor next week legislation that would water down a provision in a 2007 energy law that requires light bulbs to be more energy efficient. […]

 

EPA Pushes New E15 Label, Law Of Consequences To Rear Ugly Head

Posted on by William Teach

Don’t we have a Department of Transportation for these kinds of things? The government has settled on a label for gas stations selling a blend of gasoline and ethanol called E15, which contains more ethanol — grain alcohol — than the E10 blend that’s replaced pure gasoline at most stations. The Environmental Protection Agency previously […]

 

Oh great, Green Power will screw up the electrical grid and make our clocks run fast

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Starting next month the clock on your oven will probably be wrong. No, it won’t be broken, but the electric current it relies on to count the minutes will start deviating from the tried and true standard of 60 cycles per second. Since 1930, electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the […]

 

Obama’s Plan To Make Your Electric Bills Jump 60 Percent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only a few days ago I wrote about how Obama’s new EPA rules would force Americans to pay up to 60% more on their electric bills. This weekend, the Chicago Tribune said the same thing. Leading off saying, “Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few […]

 

Obama’s New EPA Rules Would Destroy Our Energy Sector

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Half of America’s energy comes from coal-fired power plants but Obama’s new EPA rules would about destroy the coal industry driving our energy costs through the roof. That’s not all they would do, either. Even Paul Bedard of USNews says that Obama’s new EPA rules will “slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of […]

 

Announcing the Running on Empty Tour

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Americans have sent Obama a bill for: $560,699.03 The number above is how much more gas will cost Americans over the next 12 months compared to the price when President Obama took office. Americans for Prosperity Foundation is kicking off the Running On Empty Tour, a national grassroots tour to highlight President Obama on his […]

 

Don’t Like High Gas Prices? Democrat Report Says “Drive Less”

Posted on by William Teach

This one’s a few days old, hadn’t popped in to Grist for awhile, but, it’s a hoot, and exactly what one would expect from Delusional Democrats. Said Grist story, which boils it all down, comes via DC Streets Blog, which opens thusly Members of Congress of all stripes are trying to show that they’re concerned […]

 

Germany Announces Plans To Lead The Way Back To Third World Squalor

Posted on by William Teach

And they seem extremely excited about wanting to heavily reduce their available power and have nothing to replace it with Germany’s coalition government agreed early Monday to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialized nation in the last quarter century to announce […]

 

Romney Supports Ethanol Subsidies

Posted on by William Teach

Should we start or end with a face palm?From Real Clear Politics On his first trip back to the nation’s first voting state as a soon-to-be declared presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reaffirmed his support for federal ethanol subsidies — an always important campaign issue in Iowa that figures to take on an […]

 

Oil-Rich Venezuela Suffers From Energy Crisis

Posted on by Dave Blount

As the great countermoonbat Milton Friedman observed, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” What would happen if you put a socialist of similar stripe in charge of Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC that is floating on oil? Naturally, the […]

 

57% Of Americans Think Electric Cars Suck

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, Big Oil and Big Coal and Big Industry and other Big’s got to Americans with their “disinformation campaigns,” poisoning their minds with anti-Gaia propaganda or something Nearly six of 10 Americans – 57% – say they won’t buy an all-electric car no matter the price of gas, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. That’s […]

 

What Say To $50 Light Bulbs?

Posted on by William Teach

I’d dearly like to blame this mess mostly or solely on Democrats, alas, President Bush signed the legislation which was sponsored by Fred Upton (R-Mi), who now sits as chairman of House Energy and Commerce committee. But, it is supposedly for Gaia’s sake, or, more aptly, because the Federal congress has dearly lost their way, […]

 

Another Example of How Ron Paul is Hypocritical on Supposed Fiscal Responsibility

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul’s acolytes like to claim that “Doctor” Paul is the only candidate that is serious on fiscal matters, the only candidate that is fiscally conservative, the only one that talks the talk and walks the walk. Too bad this is all BS… and here is yet another example of this fact. T. Boone Pickens […]

 

Obama Talks About New Drilling. Operative Word, “Talks”

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone else think he is looking at all sorts of polling data, reading editorials and articles that say the 2012 election will be all about the economy (and Obama’s complete incompetence), and saying “gee, I have to make a token effort which will do little to nothing, but can thump my own chest over on […]