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Posted in Energy, Environment on Jan 27th, 2012
The Obama stimulus backed electric car company is going into chapter 11 (reorganization not liquidation). I guess 118 million dollars wasn’t enough to put it on its feet. 3 high profile difficulties in 6 months is not good for the PR of new energy.
Posted in Action File, Energy, Environment, Stuff on Nov 13th, 2011
I was pleased to be a part of the National League of Cities (NLC) delegation for Dover. It was better than advertised. I was able to get some valuable information which went along with some projects that I had been working on. It may have accelerated my progress by months by giving me real time [...]
Posted in Environment, laughs on Oct 27th, 2011
Don’t let it be said that I do not support environmental sanity. I was one of the first in my city to participate in the voluntary recycling. I changed my bulbs years ago. I winterized and upgraded. I support alternative energy –just not at any price. I drive a fuel efficient car. Laugh at it [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, bailouts on Oct 13th, 2011
1.2 Billion to Congressman George Miller’s son’s client. The company is building its new factory in Mexico.
Posted in Energy, Environment, Jobs on Oct 12th, 2011
The Obama administration’s jobs council gave tepid approval the vital Keystone pipeline which would create 20,000 jobs and give America a plentiful, safe, and stable North American oil supply. America would be the main market for the Canadian Oil Sands output. It sounds like just the type of success NAFTA was intended to achieve. Set aside that [...]
Posted in Environment, Liberalism, Stuff, economy on Sep 8th, 2011
Jim Lacey of National Review has written a “must read” piece for conservatives entitled “The Moral High Ground: The Left’s “morally superior” policies kill millions and impoverish billions” I was going to summarize the piece and add a few thoughts of my own, but came to the conclusion his important piece should stand on its [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment on Jul 25th, 2011
DATE: 7/1/11 A plan to offer a guaranteed price for Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SREC) to purchasers of solar panels is way off course. A homeowner or small business who buys a solar panel can sell one SREC for each megawatt-hour of power produced by the panel. A typical home unit might generate 7 to [...]
Posted in Action File, Environment, economy on Jul 13th, 2011
Please listen to this Rich Collins WGMD Podcast. It contains vital information.
Posted in Environment, Global Warming on Jun 23rd, 2011
Al Gore attacked President Obama from the left saying that he is not doing enough to make the case for Global Climate change. With the economy the way it is, VP Gore must have an insane obession with this myth. If he feels that strongly, file.
Posted in Energy, Environment, Tom Carper on May 2nd, 2011
Sen. Carper Joins Sen. Feinstein and 16 Colleagues in Call for Stronger Fuel-Economy Standards Will reduce pollution, increase consumer information and save money for American families WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 16 other Senate colleagues, called for the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency to establish [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Opinion, Guest Posts on Apr 1st, 2011
March 28, 2011 by David Stevenson used with permission see the CRI blog for this and more great information. The nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan shows, beyond a doubt, the time has come to open existing, secure nuclear storage facilities in the United States to avert a similar tragedy. Stored fuel is the biggest [...]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming on Mar 24th, 2011
Most likely American voters surveyed understand that “global warming” is not primarily caused by people. They understand it is a liberal thing to blame us for living.
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Opinion, Jobs on Mar 21st, 2011
RE: Where are the Green Jobs? repost from CRI DATE: 3/16/11 Green jobs will make the economy grow, or so the often repeated mantra goes. Actually there are fewer green jobs in Delaware now than in 2003 (750 in 2003, 650 in 20111) and significant job growth appears to be unlikely. Furthermore, [...]
Posted in Environment on Jan 4th, 2011
The out of state eco team seems to have slipped on over on us. The General Assembly needs to stop this regulation this year. By 2014, DENREC has taken upon itself to require autos exceed federal standards and needlessly adopt the controversial California emissions standards. That would add $3000 to the average auto. Ironically, after [...]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Growth, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberalism, Looney Left, economy on Dec 2nd, 2010
The real agenda of the global warming crowd is not in your interest. At the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, one of the advocates called for a no growth rationing scheme for the developed world. He called for electric rationing and making it too expensive to drive the family car. It sounds a lot like [...]
Posted in Environment on Aug 6th, 2010
Remember when the radicals were saying that the oil spill was the worst environmental disaster ever and would be second only to nuclear war? Here we maintained support for drilling and offered a realistic assessment. We condemned BP and the damage they did to the environment, but we cautioned against overreacting. Remember oil leaks are [...]
Posted in Carney, Environment on Aug 1st, 2010
Delaware’s former Lt. Governor, John Carney is CEO of a green energy concern that as of now seems not to have produced green energy. Off of his great success of the last two years, he wants to be launched into Congress. Astute observers do not need me to review all of the environmental failures of [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Environment, Glen Urquhart, Press Releases, Taxes on Jul 14th, 2010
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 13, 2010 Contact: James Valvo (703) 224-3200 Americans for Prosperity Applauds U.S. House Candidate Glen Urquhart -Signs No Climate Tax Pledge- Washington, DC—The free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded Delaware U.S. House candidate Glen Urquhart (At Large) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Environment, Ethics, National GOP on Jun 21st, 2010
I was out of the loop last week and had access to very little news. I heard that the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee apologized to BP for their being shaken down to pay for the mess they created. Never mind that the criminal corporation, that killed around a dozen hard working [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Environment, Global Warming, Taxes on Jun 17th, 2010
Take the No Climate Tax Pledge. Let’s find out which candidates are serious about protecting the American consumer and which are not. No Climate Tax Pledge: I, ______________________, pledge to the taxpayers of the state of _______________ and to the American people that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a [...]
Posted in Environment on Jun 10th, 2010
Neurotoxin Corexit is being used to disperse the oil in the gulf at crazy levels– 1,000,000 gallons so far. The chemical uses up huge amounts of oxygen and could create dead zones in the gulf. The EPA says the long term health effects are unknown with humans. What we do know is that workers in Exxon Valdez [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment on Jun 6th, 2010
While I do not like the language used by the administration that we are going to have a boot on the throat of BP, I sympathize with the anger. This foreign company is harming American energy independence because of its carelessness. There were a number of warning signs, but they were ignored. The workers argued [...]
Posted in Environment on May 10th, 2010
We still have oil under the surface of beaches 20 years later from the Exxon Valdez 11 million barrel dump. The current spill will also be felt for decades and the best efforts should be made to stop and contain it. The question is will certain cleanup efforts do more harm than good? Remember oil [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Stuff on May 1st, 2010
The Gulf oil incident is rare due to the technology, but it shows that we can not get complacent. Oddly enough the best solution is to get newer technology in place. That can only be achieved by expanding the leases and allowing the new multi-well platforms to give us fewer platforms and more sites. The [...]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Stuff on Mar 27th, 2010
Proud of its historical status as the first of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution, Delaware has certainly earned the right to proudly display our first-state motto anywhere and everywhere we can fit it. Recently Delaware signed another historic pact with many of those same states – this one, aimed at implementing a [...]
Posted in Environment on Mar 6th, 2010
Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV) Has the Right Idea on the EPA Written by ALG News Friday, 05 March 2010 16:31 Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today praised Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) for introducing legislation that would place a two-year moratorium on any decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cap by regulation carbon [...]
Posted in Environment on Feb 24th, 2010
Innovation is the key to a better environment not government control. The air car is an amazing innovation. The car can travel locally (around 50 to 60 miles), but with a modification it can use a lawnmower type engine to compress air and travel 1000 miles with less than 2 gallons of gas. Here is [...]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Guest Opinion, Guest Posts, Regulation on Feb 18th, 2010
by Shaun Fink As this year unfolds, we will hear a lot of talk about creating new “green” jobs to contribute to our state economy. In advance of the cacophony, let’s examine exactly what we are talking about when we use the term “green” before the word “jobs”. As neat and packaged as the [...]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, International on Dec 18th, 2009
Where is Hillary Clinton going to get the 100 billion dollar bribe of foreign aid that she promised to developing countries? I guess they had better write more books. I personally think that investing money in saving the rainforest is a far better policy than the EPA anti-carbon insanity or cap and tax. My question [...]
Posted in Environment on Dec 11th, 2009
EPA POINTS GUN AT CONGRESS & AMERICAN ECONOMY December 10, 2009 – Wilmington, DE: “In an unprecedented power grab, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will act to regulate CO2 emissions and issue standards on how much carbon U.S. factories, buildings and autos can emit without authorizing legislation from Congress.” said Congressional candidate Fred [...]
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