July 11, 2011 – 8:17 am
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. […]
July 7, 2011 – 7:42 am
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. […]
June 30, 2011 – 9:12 am
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 […]
June 16, 2011 – 5:13 pm
Outstanding news from The Hill The Senate voted 73-27 Thursday to kill a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry, handing a political win to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that call the incentive needless and expensive. The vote also could have ramifications on future votes to reduce the deficit. Much of the GOP […]
June 11, 2011 – 4:38 pm
Just remember, “under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” (full quote at Newsbusters) Utility giant American Electric Power said Thursday that it will shut down five coal-fired power plants and spend billions of dollars to comply with a series of pending Environmental Protection Agency regulations. The company’s dramatic […]
June 6, 2011 – 6:48 am
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 […]
May 30, 2011 – 9:06 am
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 […]
May 28, 2011 – 9:00 am
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 […]
May 25, 2011 – 11:45 am
No, really, “unprecedented.” I think they are a bit too in love with words like that. Alas, if you thought those steps would bring down gas prices, afraid not. But, they have new window stickers, according to Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood This Administration has taken unprecedented steps to protect consumers at the gas pump. In […]
May 25, 2011 – 8:51 am
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 […]
