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• Blowing Smoke on Wind Energy

  Posted March 19th, 2010 at 1:32pm in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  President Obama has been quite adamant about his push to transition to a clean energy economy, most notably by subsidizing wind and solar energy sources. He argues we need the government to invest in renewable energy to strengthen our economy and reduce the earth’s fever before it’s too late. Despite the Congress’s attempt to address [...] More

• Government Picks Wind as Winner, Oil and Natural Gas as Losers

  Posted March 10th, 2010 at 2:05pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  Chris Horner from the Competitive Enterprise Institute is at it again, doing his best Sherlock Holmes imitation. After a Spanish study warned that renewable energy policies destroy more jobs than they aim to create, the Department of Energy released a strong rebuttal, claiming the report lacked rigor. A CEI-submitted Freedom of Information Act [...] More

• Running Out of Oil?

  Posted February 25th, 2010 at 2:17pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  As recent as last summer an article in The Independent, citing assessment from the lead economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that “The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production.” [...] More

• $58,000 Solar Investment for a $21 Carbon Credit a Bright Idea?

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 4:24pm in Energy and Environment with 14 comments

  We can see the t-shirt slogan already: I paid $58,000 for solar panels and all I got was a $21 carbon credit that bought me this t-shirt. It’s not very catchy, but that’s the story of a Harrisburg couple, Tami and Randy Wilson, who installed solar panels in their home to reduce their electricity bill: The [...] More

• New Year, Same Story: Global Warming Dead Last on America’s Priority List

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 11:55am in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  The wheels have been falling off the global warming bandwagon well before Climategate and the recent hole-poking of the much trumpeted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report. In a national survey last January by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, global warming ranked 20th out of 20 as far as [...] More

• Obama’s Green Jobs Plan Will Do More Harm Than Good

  Posted January 8th, 2010 at 4:14pm in Energy and Environment with 13 comments

  On the campaign trail Barack Obama promised if he were elected president, he would create 5 million “green collar” jobs. Today President Obama announced $2.3 billion in tax credits for a clean energy economy will ostensibly create 17,000 jobs. “Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future,” [...] More

• Solar Shutdown: Feinstein to Block Energy Projects

  Posted December 22nd, 2009 at 11:32am in Energy and Environment with 30 comments

  We need to transform to a new, clean energy economy but we can’t build solar panels in the Mojave Desert if California Senator Diane Feinstein has anything to say about it: Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big [...] More

• Live At Copenhagen: Wind Energy Doesn’t Cut It

  Posted December 14th, 2009 at 4:47pm in Energy and Environment with 11 comments

  The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Groves and Ben Lieberman are live at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference reporting from a conservative perspective. Follow their reports on The Foundry and at the Copenhagen Consequences Web site. Below is Lieberman’s first video interview with Martin Aagerup, President of the Danish think tank CEPOS, a group that has done important [...] More

• Green Jobs? What Green Jobs?

  Posted November 9th, 2009 at 2:14pm in Energy and Environment with 6 comments

  Proponents of the $787 billion economic stimulus package said it would be quick and effective. It’s turning out to be neither. And the transformation to a new green revolution is off to a shaky start. One of the largest chunks of money from the federal spending is the $25 billion allocated for energy-efficiency. The Washington Post’s [...] More

• Al Gore Going Green to Make Green

  Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:10pm in Energy and Environment with 18 comments

  John Broder of The New York Times has an interesting piece on Al Gore’s financial profit tied to his global warming alarmism and push for renewable energy. Gore’s venture capital firm invested in Silver Spring Networks, a company that makes hardware and software to improve efficiency in the nation’s electricity grid. When President Obama told a [...] More