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Posted in Energy, Environment on Aug 5th, 2009
A group of trial lawyers have declared that they are “waging a legal war” on Global Warming. In reality they are waging a war on energy production in America. When I say such things, it is not out of my imagination. I read their own writings and I notice that these are not cranks. They [...]
Posted in Bluewater Wind, Delaware Democrats, Energy, Environment, Jack Markell on Jul 30th, 2009
Markell and Longhurst thing the way to grow our economy is to shrink it. I wonder how do they think that this is a good idea? The governor signed two bills yesterday which will impact everyone who lives or works in Delaware. I am all for encouraging conservation, but we should not be setting into [...]
Posted in Energy on Jul 22nd, 2009
California may finally bow to common sense. The prohibition of coastal oil drilling may finally be over. Credit the budget. Just take apart the old rig and then you can build a new one which is better and can reach more fields from one point. The nation needs the oil and California needs the revenue. [...]
Posted in Energy, Revolutionary Reform on Jul 18th, 2009
How is it that a government that could lead a project to take man free of his planet for the first time can not get so many other projects right. How is it that Bluewater Wind’s start date has been pushed back a year and a half mostly because the government can’t even decide to [...]
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Stuff on Jul 15th, 2009
John Holdren Obanma’s Science Czar wrote a textbook published in 1977 that advocated extreme measures to avert the Population time bomb calamity that was about to consume the earth in the 20th century. In the 900 page tome “Ecoscience , Population, Resources, Environment, Holdren and fellow population control nut Paul Ehrlich, argue that the population [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Employment, Energy, Environment, Wind Power on Jul 15th, 2009
Check this out, Britain is going to build more wind farms, they’re just not going to do it with turbines made there: One of Britain’s biggest employers in the green energy industry is to cease production within hours of a government announcement today pledging as many as 400,000 green jobs by 2015. Ed Miliband, the [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Sarah Palin on Jul 14th, 2009
Governor Sarah Palin wrote on the dangers of the Cap and Trade proposal in the Washington Post today. I am deeply concerned about President Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage. American prosperity [...]
Posted in Biden, Change, Energy, National Dems, Obama, Open Government, Transparency on Jul 10th, 2009
Remember back when presidential candidate Barack Obama said this: When there are meetings between lobbyists and a government agency, we won’t be going to the Supreme Court to keep it secret like Dick Cheney and his energy task force, we’ll be putting them up on the Internet for every American to watch. Well, apparently that’s [...]
Posted in Energy on Jul 2nd, 2009
Does the federal government have a right to pressure you were to live (location efficient mortgages) or force energy audits of homes that you sell? A comment on a post said the President’s new light bulb regulations would require an energy audit before a home sale. The good news is that I can not find [...]
Posted in Energy on Jun 29th, 2009
The President is now the lamp czar. The White House is announcing new regulations which set standards for lighting. He claims that they will save the equivilent of 14 coal powered power plants. It raises legitimate concerns about the nanny state. Is this a proper role of government? “Conservation is only half the equation. Even [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, Election 2010, Energy, Environment, Liberalism on Jun 26th, 2009
Speaker Pelosi put it all on the line. She made it. 219 to 212. It is a vote reminiscent of the Clinton tax hike of 1993. The Democrats own this with 211 votes to 44 in favor. The speaker and the President owe a big thank you to eight Republicans Mary Bono, Michael Castle, Mark [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Energy, Environment on Jun 26th, 2009
Dear Congressman Castle, I would like to express my total and vehement opposition to H.R. 2454, the boondoggle of a bill oddly titled the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009”. The fact that it is now over 1,000 pages and is being suspiciously fast-tracked by the House leadership is enough to give one [...]
This is a defining moment in whether or not we will be a prosperous nation. Green goons are trying to undermine our energy independence and redirect the American economy. Contact your Congressman today. From the linked Wall Street Journal column: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, [...]
Posted in Employment, Energy, Environment on May 27th, 2009
No matter what Jack tells you, the green job movement in Spain is a lot of hot air according to a major study. Spain’s touted program cost 9 jobs for every 4 it created. I will await Tommy’s response to the study. Yes, we need to encourage green energy. No, we can’t shut down traditional [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Budget, Change, Deficit, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Military, National Dems, Obama, Oil, Open Government, Spending, unemployment on Apr 28th, 2009
$328,835 is the pricetag for the White House’s tragically stupid New York City photo-op according to the Air Force. Check it out: The flight by the VC-25, a modified Boeing Co. 747, and two F-16 fighter jets cost $328,835, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said. $328,835 for a picture at a time when many Americans [...]
Posted in Change, DNREC, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Jack Markell, Minner Failures, NRG, Stuff, economy on Mar 17th, 2009
Governor Jack Markell has announced that a Californian named Collin O’Mara is his pick to head up the train wreck known as DNREC. O’Mara is described by the Markell Administration as a “climate prosperity leader” and a “climate prosperity expert.” Well, I had no idea what the heck either of those things were, so I [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Energy on Mar 12th, 2009
kavips, a Delaware (I assume…he/she is so darned secretive) blogger, who has some very well thought out posts (see his/her economic recovery post for an example), put one up the other day that is absolutely worth some deeper thought and investigation. It is about the Delaware City Valero Refinery and their apparent shut-down in response [...]
Posted in Election 2008-President, Energy, McCain, Obama, Oil on Aug 5th, 2008
It’s Monday and time for the weekly Presidential update. Energy is the big issue in America. The bad news for Senator Obama is that more Americans now trust Senator McCain on the issue. The Obama people have gotten the message and the Senator has made a major address today on the issue. The race is a dead heat. [...]
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