September 14, 2013 – 12:37 pm
Guest Post by William Teach of Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach. There have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, which doesn’t count all the attempted murders and other violence in the Windy City, and kids are scared to go to school as they pass through gang wars in safe passage areas, […]
September 12, 2013 – 11:16 am
What does he care if this causes you, the peasant, to suffer? (Bloomberg) Representatives of coal-intensive utilities and coal-producing regions said that President Barack Obama would effectively outlaw construction of new power plants using the fuel with pending environmental rules. The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition […]
August 20, 2013 – 11:36 am
Biofuels, including ethanol, might be workable in the future. Heck, using sugar as fuel seems to be working well in Brazil. But, what’s being done in America, and much of the developed world, where it is mostly food being used to develop fuels, is an unmitigated disaster (article is behind the paywall. You can see […]
August 13, 2013 – 6:05 pm
Obamanomics (The Hill) ECOtality Inc., an Energy Department-backed maker of electric car charging systems, is facing a major cash crunch and could file for bankruptcy. The company, which has been awarded nearly $100 million in grant funding under the 2009 stimulus law, disclosed Monday that it’s weighing a restructuring or sale as it seeks more […]
August 11, 2013 – 8:13 am
Let’s not forget, the man in question has a “carbon footprint” estimated at 41,000 metric tons, making him mostly to be the Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In The World. The average American’s footprint is a bit over 19 metric tons. Worldwide it is 2 tons. Heck, Obama is putting out way more than two […]
August 9, 2013 – 8:37 am
So far, every environmental and global warming study has found Keystone XL to be not an issue. Here’s another one (The Hill) The Keystone XL oil sands pipeline “will not have any impact†on greenhouse gas emissions, a report released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA said Thursday. The report said that’s because […]
July 28, 2013 – 8:25 am
In a long, boring interview with the NY Times, in which (NMP) Obama dishes forth the same old failed policies, engages in lots and lots of Blamestorming as if this wasn’t his second term in office, patronizes, and offers little in the way of new policies, we find this bit on page 5 (via Tom […]
July 21, 2013 – 8:59 am
I was wondering when they would get around to this blamestorming talking point, and I blame you, dear reader, for all the power issues for refusing to give up your fossil fueled vehicle, using hair spray, and having a fridge with an ice maker. Oh, and per Warmist doctrine, no, I’m not giving up mine. […]
July 19, 2013 – 4:07 pm
Despite all the yammering of Liberals, Democrats, and Warmists, virtually every talking point regarding hydraulic fracturing goes down in flames (CBS) A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the […]
July 18, 2013 – 10:58 am
As Jo Nova points out “What the Nanny-State Goddess Giveth…” (Bloomberg) India’s move to stabilize its power grid by asking wind farms to accurately predict their output a day in advance or face fines will deepen the slowdown in Asia’s second-biggest wind market, Tata Power Co. (TPWR) said. A directive took effect this week ordering […]
