Category Archives: Energy

White House Stepping Up To Push Ethanol

There’s absolutely no wonder in this, considering how Obama was in the pocket of Big Ethanol during the campaign that he promised not to undertake till he finished his first term as a Senator The Obama administration on Tuesday will step up efforts to increase the availability of ethanol at filling stations and to speed up […]

Hillary Says US Ready To Lead On Ruining Economies For Fake Issue

And she is not worried about letting those pesky human rights issues get in the way, either, as we already know After eight years largely on the sidelines of the international policy debate on climate change, the United States is prepared to lead negotiations toward a new global warming treaty, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham […]

Senate: Cap And Tax? Yeah, Not So Much

You remember what Obama stated about cap and trade, right? You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m […]

AGW Today: Guess Who’s Really Dirty?

Say, as President Neophyte Obambi and the AGW Believes in Congress rail against AGW, perhaps they should take a look outside the window Washington has seen its share of big protests over the years, and most of them center on the White House, the Mall or the Capitol. That will change tomorrow, when the first […]

Here Come The Tax Hikes

Soak the rich and trickle it down to the middle class and poor. Jake Tapper digs in to the Porkulus bill, and gives us these wonderful new taxes 1) On people making more than $250,000. $338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire $179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction $118 billion – capital gains tax hike […]

We Need More Energy, Says Barry. Let’s Ban Drilling, Says Interior Nominee

For those who watched Barry’s speech (I’ll admit, I only caught a little bit, couldn’t take the lies and BS, and his um’s and ah’s mess up my speech patterns, which I kinda need for my job, but, I did see this part), memba this? The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline […]

The Cost Of Global Warming? $515 Billion. Per Year

Time to pony up, True Believers. If you want it, you need to buy it Clean energy investments of $515 billion per year is needed between now and 2030 or carbon emissions will reach levels deemed unsustainable by scientists. That is at least the conclusion participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland make. […]

AGW Today: What’s The Punch Line?

From the world of AGW, Even left now laughing at global warming So-called “global warming” has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It’s hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won’t cooperate: Nearly four inches of snow blanketed the […]

Barack Obama – Neo-Conservative (?)

Who could have expected that Obama would be a big States Rights guy, like we on the Conservative side want the GOP to be? Reversing another Bush administration policy, President Obama announced this morning that he will order environmental regulators to immediately look at the request by Massachusetts and at least a dozen other states […]

Consensus: AGW Just Not A Concern For Americans

The anthropogenic global warming hysterics always talk about consensus. Well, how’s this? A new poll suggests that Americans, preoccupied with the economy, are less worried about rising global temperatures than they were a year ago but remain concerned with solving the nation’s energy problems. The findings are somewhat at odds with President Obama, who has […]

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