July 13, 2012 – 5:18 pm
Someone really confused their talking points (Washington Examiner) David Frantz, who runs the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, contradicted President Obama today by telling Congress that the program is not designed to create jobs. “The predominance of our portfolio — and the objective, really, of the act — is to be creating large infrastructure, utility-scale […]
July 5, 2012 – 8:03 am
Back on June 26th, Obama cheerleading The Politico was rating “green” companies that received DOE loans, and determined that Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) as a “mixed bag” Nevada Geothermal: The company’s Blue Mountain project in northern Nevada received a partial loan guarantee for $98.5 million in 2010. The project is already generating power, but production […]
July 3, 2012 – 9:21 pm
Hmm, kinda wish I had seen this unhinged article by the AP’s Seth Borenstein earlier this morning when I posted “People Pretty Upset Over Unintentional Earth Hours” regarding the outages from the crazy storms last Friday. This is what Borenstein is pushing If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, […]
July 3, 2012 – 6:46 pm
The Lonely Conservative goes with “LOL!” I have to go with “bwahahahahahahahahah-snort-hahahahahaha!” (WRAL) State House lawmakers have apparently accidentally legalized fracking in North Carolina, due to a deciding vote one Democrat says was a mistake. Rep. Becky Carney, D-Mecklenburg, says she did not intend to cast the key vote that overrode the governor’s veto of […]
July 3, 2012 – 7:37 am
Last November, a United Nations report told us just how evil air conditioning and refrigerators are. And a couple weeks ago the NY Times had a hissy fit over A/C, but, of course, wants those in developing nations to bear the burden of having their A/C restricted. Warmist policies would lead to rolling brownouts and […]
June 28, 2012 – 4:32 pm
Well, the Stimulus is creating jobs for lawyers and people who handle companies closing down (Businessweek) Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S. loan guarantee, is closing its doors and filing for bankruptcy, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Abound, based in Loveland, Colorado, borrowed $70 million against […]
June 26, 2012 – 9:24 am
So says the headline On green jobs and DOE loans, the jury is still out Yet, the information they provide right at the beginning blows that lie right out of the water The Energy Department’s clean-energy loan program hasn’t yet yielded the kind of moonshot-style success that President Barack Obama envisions would transform the U.S. […]
June 21, 2012 – 11:59 am
Andy’s Rant exposes the true cost of energy (via The Climate Nonconformist) Whilst the Carbon Tax is as welcome as a turd in a swimming pool, there is no doubt whatsoever that the bipartisan support for the 20% Renewable Energy Target (RET) is the real culprit in allowing the price of power to skyrocket. The […]
June 17, 2012 – 8:04 am
Why? Because they are unsightly, make lots of noise, cannot be depended on to produce power when it is not windy or too windy, what power they produce cannot be stored, and really, they only people who benefit are those that own and work for the companies that run them. The average citizen isn’t seeing […]
June 16, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Fortunately, The Lonely Conservative didn’t forget Did you know that today is Global Wind Day? It’s a day for environmental activists to push for more funding for wind farms and indoctrinate young children. It appears that the corrupt Sierra Club (a group that took funding from natural gas companies before knifing those companies in the […]
