March 5, 2012 – 4:46 pm
Someone’s surely earned themselves a profanity laced tirade from the White House Obama Campaign (CNN) Despite winning a trophy case worth of awards — including Motor Trend Car of the Year and North American Car of the Year — the Chevrolet Volt plug-in car has failed to meet GM’s sales expectations. The problem is simple: […]
February 24, 2012 – 1:32 pm
We already know about the fiscal and political disaster, who’s up for killing the environment? (Washington Times) Federal officials hailed Solyndra LLC’s plan to create clean energy when they awarded the company more than a half-billion dollars in loans, but the solar-panel maker’s abrupt closure now threatens to leave behind an environmental mess. The company […]
February 21, 2012 – 3:48 pm
I’m sure they’ve all rushed out move in (Grist) If you’re like me, you watch this video and think “my house is 10 times as big as this apartment and only slightly more functional,” and then curse the day you moved to the suburbs. If you’re like me, you wonder why the hell someone would […]
February 6, 2012 – 1:26 pm
It’s the Liberal Law Of Unintended Consequences (LA Times) Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the “power tower” emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket. Clustered nearby are hangar-sized assembly buildings, looming berms of sand and a chain mail of fencing that will enclose […]
January 30, 2012 – 7:29 am
Sustainability was one of the ideas the United Nations and the extreme environmentals and Warmists ran up the flag pole about a year and a half ago as a way of replacing what they had been attempting to do with “climate change,” namely, put massive amounts of control over people and private businesses, economies, along […]
January 28, 2012 – 2:40 pm
It’s actually good to see Obama embrace natural gas (Marketwatch) President Barack Obama spoke yesterday at the UPS Depot in Las Vegas, Nevada promoting natural gas-fueled trucking as part of his “Blueprint for an economy that’s built to last,” unveiled at his January 24 “State of the Union” address to Congress, according to Clean Energy […]
January 24, 2012 – 5:03 pm
I’m kinda shocked: doesn’t every sales organization want to allocate space on their “shelves” for craptacular products? (via Tom Nelson) (Automotive News) Some Chevrolet dealers are turning down Volts that General Motors wants to ship to them, a potential stumbling block as GM looks to accelerate sales of the plug-in hybrid. For example, consider the […]
January 13, 2012 – 5:58 pm
Yes, you read that right. Even the NY Times thinks this is silly When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. […]
January 10, 2012 – 9:32 am
Who profits from the electric car subsidies? This should make the Occupiers unhappy, but, since they support Obama and the Democrats overwhelmingly, they will barely make a peep (Fox News) Once again, going green has taxpayers seeing red. This time however, billions in federal subsidies for electric vehicles are going those who need them the […]
January 6, 2012 – 2:58 pm
Bet you didn’t see that one coming (Climate Realists) Southwestern Ontario’s flourishing wind energy industry came under fire Wednesday from the co-founder of Greenpeace. Dr. Patrick Moore told more than 1,000 area farmers the industry destroys more jobs than it creates, and causes energy prices to climb for all users. “The industry is a destroyer […]
