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Beating The Same Crummy Drum On Every Alternative Energy Source
19 Mar 2012 1:17 am John Hawkins

But that’s a long road to travel. About 9 percent of the energy used by Americans comes from “renewables.” The rest comes from burning stuff or splitting atoms. But of that 9 percent, the vast majority comes from hydroelectric power and ethanol. Hydroelectric power has little room for growth since there aren’t any new dams going in, and ethanol doesn’t qualify as a green energy source since it requires so much energy to make itself.
Of the currently viable sources acceptable to environmentalists, many billions of dollars of subsidies have produced …

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Newt Responds to President: Let Obama Be the Saudi Oil and Algae Guy, I’ll be the American Jobs Guy
15 Mar 2012 11:05 pm Warner Todd Huston

Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich appeared at Otto Engineering in Carpentersville, Illinois this afternoon and had a few choice words for Barack Obama. Newt told the president than he can be the fantasy algae guy and he, Newt, will be the science candidate.
Newt Slams the President as a member of the “Flat Earth, Sierra Club Society.”
Earlier today Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland, President Obama claimed that anyone attacking his absurd reliance on wind power and algae to solve our massive energy problems are members of the “Flat Earth …

Media Works Hard To Protect Obama On Gas Prices
13 Mar 2012 7:39 am William Teach

The 90% liberal/Democrat media is sure to do all in its power to protect (NMP) Obama regarding the rising gas prices, which have been high for the majority of Obama’s time in office, and that protection is starting at the Washington Post, which forgets that its cost of doing business is going up and profits are going down: fossil fueled vehicles are used to deliver their dead tree edition
Voters blame president for gas prices, experts say not so fast
How much does the president have to do with the price of …

Obama Weekly Address: “Soon You’ll Be Able To Only Afford To Fill Up Every Two Weeks!”
10 Mar 2012 7:35 am William Teach

He’s still beating the “alternative energy will help save you money sometime in the future” drum, though he’s not particularly concerned with rising gas prices now
Hi, everybody. I’m speaking to you this week from a factory in Petersburg, Virginia, where they’re bringing on more than 100 new workers to build parts for the next generation of jet engines.
Isn’t taking unnecessary fossil fueled flights bad for globull warming?
If we accelerate that trend, we can help drivers save a significant amount of money. That’s why, after 30 years of …

How well has green energy worked in Ontario, Canada?
9 Mar 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

A story from CANOE about the socialist premier of Ontario, Canada – Dalton McGuinty.
Excerpt:
Dalton McGuinty constantly extols the virtues of so-called green energy.
One North Bay company, however, is sounding the alarm that the costs of this expensive program are forcing companies to lay off staff — and will eventually force many of them to leave the province.
John Spencer is an executive with Fabrene Inc., a company that makes industrial fabrics.
The Liberal government’s green energy plan has added $1 million a year to his hydro bill — an amount he says will …

Obama Pushing Dems To Vote Against Keystone XL Amendment
8 Mar 2012 7:30 am William Teach

So reports the Politico
President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
The White House lobbying effort, including phone calls from the president to Democrats, signals that the vote could be close when it heads to the floor Thursday. The president is trying to defeat an amendment that would give election-year fodder to his Republican critics who have accused him of blocking a job-creating energy …

CPUC: When a Consumer Advocate Isn’t
7 Mar 2012 4:17 pm Warner Todd Huston

The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) is suppose to be a consumer advocate, it’s supposed to be a watchdog agency that keeps California’s public utilities in line so that they don’t rip off rate payers. Unfortunately, as the SF Chronicle’s Katy Grimes says, the regulator is instead responsible for a culture of corruption with the state’s utilities.
It almost seems as if the CPUC is an arm of the rate-hiking utilities instead of their minder!
“The California Public Utility Commission,” Grimes says, “has a history of allowing utility companies to increase utility …

ABC News That’s Not So New
6 Mar 2012 7:44 pm Michael Fell

One of the breaking headline news stories online from ABC News just today, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 reads: Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Exec Bonuses, Fail.
http://news.yahoo.com/green-firms-fed-cash-execs-bonuses-fail-200314806–abc-news.html
Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk, for ABC News, aggressively reporting news with an edge, convey how companies like Solyndra, Ener1and Beacon Power took money from the Department of Energy, paid bonuses to executives, then proceeded to file for bankruptcy. How unfortunate for Greene, Mosk and ABC News, that that edge of theirs is so desperately in need of major sharpening. Conservative journalists have been …

USA Today Picks Up The Mantle That Obama’s Not At Fault For Gas Prices
3 Mar 2012 9:44 am William Teach

Ah, how times change

Anyhow
What can U.S. do to halt rising gas prices? Not much
Rising gas prices are always a bad thing for an incumbent president, especially one heading into a tough re-election battle.
But President Obama admitted in a speech in Miami recently that there’s not all that much he can do to blunt the impact of prices, which some analysts think could be heading toward $5 per gallon nationwide this summer.
“The amount of oil that we drill at home doesn’t set the price of gas by itself,” Obama said. “The …

Bummer: GM To Halt Production Of Chevy Firestarter “Temporarily”
3 Mar 2012 9:09 am William Teach

Actually, it is kind of a bummer, because 1300 are being laid off, and I’d be surprised if they were all rehired once they restart the lines
(The Hill) General Motors has temporarily suspended production of its Volt electric car, the company announced Friday.
GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees.
A GM spokesman told The Hill on Friday that production of the Volt …

Obama: “Lower Gas Prices? Who Cares? I Don’t”
2 Mar 2012 7:47 am William Teach

At least Jimmy Carter attempted to sorta say he cared about high gas prices. Obama can’t even work up a bit of empathy
(NY Times) With his re-election fate increasingly tied to the price Americans are paying at the gas pump, President Obama asked Congress on Thursday to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies and vowed to tackle the country’s long-term energy issues while shunning “phony election-year promises about lower gas prices.”
In other words, you’re on your own, chumps. King Obama has spoken, and has no intention …

Uh Oh: Politico Discusses The Carter/Obama Comparison
1 Mar 2012 8:34 am William Teach

It’s never a good thing when a Democrat leaning news source compares Obama to Carter, even if the two writers, Bob King and Darren Goode, work hard to say ” hey, no, he’s really not the same as Carter. No No No!” Just the very fact that the comparison is brought up seals the comparison. They even have a handy dandy cartoon with the two presidents
(The Politico) Not since the era of roller disco, Ford Pintos and “Welcome Back, Kotter” has a Democratic president faced the political fallout …

Chop Licking: How Obama Uses Falsehoods to Advance His Policies
27 Feb 2012 1:22 pm Warner Todd Huston

Last week we all got a great lesson in how the left promotes a lie to make Republicans the enemy and this time President Obama was a chief participant.
This is how the game is played: the left-leaning media establishment makes a claim about how rotten Republicans are and Obama then echoes the claim and presents it as the true state of Republican opposition to his policies. The result is that we have a partisan opinion foisted on the public as truth about how mean the GOP is to this …

Who’s Up For Another Round Of Obama Talks Regarding Energy Prices?
27 Feb 2012 8:30 am William Teach

Jazz Shaw terms this “Obama prepares to fight gas prices with new bumper sticker“. I’m not so sure, because our feckless president doesn’t seem to be taking even that much action
(Daily Herald)President Barack Obama will try to head off the political impact of rising gasoline prices as Republicans vow to make the price at the pump an issue in the 2012 election campaign.
Obama this week plans events focusing on his administration’s efforts to expand domestic exploration and development of alternative energy sources to combat cyclical spikes …

Obama Uses Weekly Address To Blame Self For Rising Gas Prices
25 Feb 2012 6:56 am William Teach

Just kidding. He whines about Republicans and blames oil companies
Hello, everybody.
Is it just me, or does that address, which he uses every week, seem rather unpresidential? Then again, look who we’re talking about.
These days, we’re getting another painful reminder why developing new energy is so important to our future. Just like they did last year, gas prices are starting to climb. Only this time, it’s happening earlier. And that hurts everyone – everyone who owns a car; everyone who owns a business. …

Obama Thinks You’re Stupid: Pushes Algae For Fuel
23 Feb 2012 7:24 pm William Teach

He does, he really does (Via The Lonely Conservative)
(Washington Examiner) President Obama admitted today that he does not have a “silver bullet” solution for skyrocketing gas prices, but he proposed alternative energy sources such as “a plant-like substance, algae” as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent.
“We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae — you’ve got a bunch of algae out here,” Obama said at the University of Miami today. “If we can …

“progressives” Don’t Care if Americans Suffer at the Pump
20 Feb 2012 4:50 pm Michael Fell

There’s widespread consensus in the United States that America needs to become less dependent on foreign oil. America’s growing, ongoing dependence on foreign sources puts her at ever-greater risk in an unstable world. This instability drives the costs higher.

“progressives” who feel an overwhelming compulsion to immediately replace America’s existing carbon economy with a green one couldn’t be happier with the higher costs. The current administration and fellow “progressives” continue to push America towards the green end, come what may. Stiffer regulations on auto makers, stifling EPA regulations on energy producers, …

GOP Slaps Obama Around On Gas Prices
17 Feb 2012 8:56 am William Teach

And The Politico is not particularly happy about it, but has a rather difficult time defending Obama
Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Republicans are licking their chops.
It’s a familiar refrain: Once again, GOP lawmakers and conservative commentators are on the attack, blaming President Barack Obama for higher prices at the pump. And they’re promoting a “drill, baby drill” agenda as the answer.
It’s a familiar refrain because Obama seems hell bent on seeing gasoline prices skyrocket, as he stated during the 2008 election cycle. What has he done to even …

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?
14 Feb 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

From the LA Examiner.
Excerpt:
U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs.
As part of the Obama green energy program, the goal was to train 124,893 people, and place 79,854 (64%) in new green jobs. After 17 months, the results of the green jobs program indicate that only 52,762 were trained, and only 8,035 got green jobs – each …

Rick Santorum’s Sweep Changes the Race
8 Feb 2012 3:16 pm Michael Fell

As the final Colorado vote counts were coming in late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, confirming that Rick Santorum scored a hat trick against his Republican competitors, it was becoming clear that a sea change is occurring within the GOP race.
More than before, it’s now arguable that the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s candidacy is a fallacy. This opinion has been long espoused by Republican grassroots activists across the country. Now there are numbers to back it up.
Santorum has now won four out of the eight contests. He has victories in four …

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