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 […]
May 18, 2011 – 8:20 am
There’s politics, then there are fishing expeditions accusing private citizens and companies of wrong-doing with zero proof to score political points Senate Democrats are requesting an FTC investigation into “potential price fixing†of gasoline by petroleum refiners. The Democrats — including Majority Leader Harry Reid — wrote in a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz […]
May 17, 2011 – 8:20 am
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, […]
May 14, 2011 – 7:56 am
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 […]
May 9, 2011 – 3:30 pm
Hey, climate alarmists, you always say we should listen to the experts Nuclear power will remain the cheapest way for the UK to grow its low-carbon energy supply for at least a decade, according to government advisers. They’re going to need it, since the cold winters (caused by ‘climate change’, due to someone not taking […]
