Category Archives: Energy

Most Back Keystone XL Over “Climate Change”

And the Warmists lose yet again (Yahoo News) A new poll released this week by Nik Nanos, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, revealed that the majority of Americans and Canadians feel that the energy security that could be provided by the Keystone XL pipeline is more important than […]

Obama Officials Knews Fisker Was Failing. Also, Another Stimulus Backed Solar Company Going Down The Tubes

The CBS article is entitled WH knew electric car maker Fisker was faltering: AP. Not sure that they can say that the White House knew, the provide no information on that, but the DOE certainly knew Newly obtained documents show the Obama administration was warned as early as 2010 that electric car maker Fisker Automotive […]

Solar Industry Is Pretty Much Workfare

As Steven Milloy points out Grist reports that solar workers now outnumber coal miners. Coal provided 42% of U.S. electricty needs in 2011. Solar provided 0.2% of global electricity needs in 2011. You do the math. The math says that coal provides 210 times more power with fewer employees. The math also says that the […]

Stimulus Recipient Flabeg Solar Shuts Down

Anyone surprised? No? (CNS News) A Pittsburgh, Pa. solar energy company has shut its doors four years after receiving nearly $10.2 million in tax credits from the Obama Administration as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp., a $30 million solar plant located near the Pittsburgh International Airport, opened its doors […]

Oh Oh: There’s A War On Women In Obama’s “Green” Economy

While they do get paid a bit more in the “green” economy, a much lower percentage are working in the “green” economy. Supposedly, there are 3.4 million “green” jobs (school bus drivers, scrap metal workers, employee at a bike shop, and, yes, even an oil industry lobbyist) out there, but…. (Climate Progress) ….the green sector […]

Surprise: Stimulus Recipient Fisker Auto Lays Of 75% Of Their Workforce

Another “green” company to add to the list of Obama green failures (h/t Dana) (The Hill) Fisker Automotive, a federally backed maker of plug-in hybrid cars, laid off 75 percent of its workers Friday as it struggles to stay afloat and find new capital, according to press accounts. Fisker drew $193 million of a $529 […]

Obama To Take Fossil Fueled Flight To Propose Program To Eliminate Fossil Fuels

Once again he’s on the campaign trail for his “green energy” meme (Washington Post) The pitch President Obama will make as he visits the Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago Friday involves a bit of policy jujutsu: let’s take the money we make by producing oil to stop using it altogether. Sequester? What Sequester? […]

Bummer: Green Cars Not So Green

I, and others, have posted material showing that electric cars and hybrids are not exactly environmentally nor hotcoldwetdry friendly. Here’s  another in the Wall Street Journal (h/t Dana) Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret Electric cars are promoted as the chic harbinger of an environmentally benign future. Ads assure us of “zero […]

Say, Why Doesn’t America Have Any Off-shore Wind Farms?

Surprising, Mother Jones’ Tim McDonnell never mentions how Democrats, especially the late Ted Kennedy and current Secretary of Climate Change, er, State, John Kerry worked hard to block the Cape Wind project (Mother Jones) Despite massive growth of the offshore wind industry in Europe, a blossoming array of land-based wind turbines stateside, and plenty of […]

Thousands Of Climastrologers Freeze Their Buns Off Protesting Keystone Pipeline

They’re really, really upset about the potential use of Canadian tar sands by fellow Americans (Politico) Tens of thousands of people converged on the National Mall on Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, a project they say will cause irreparable damage to the climate. The rally, which was organized […]

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