The AMS is going to be judged in future years as having foolishly sacrificed its sterling scientific reputation for political and financial expediency. – Bill Gray Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University
Archive for Category: "Global Warming & Environment"
June 20, 2011 04:07
The Washington Cornhuskers
Believers in free markets and less government need to join the effort to shuck corn as an energy source. Corn belongs in our breakfast cereal and on our dinner plates, not in our gas tanks.
June 17, 2011 04:41
Ethanol blended gas costs $1.40 more a gallon with government subsidies
Dr. Coburn explains some of the reasons to eliminate ethanol subsides. We have markedly increased the cost of food due to ethanol production. Government subsidies hide an additional $172 per gallon in ethanol blended gasoline.
June 10, 2011 07:56
Obama’s EPA forces coal plants to close – kills jobs – Senator says “out of control”
(CNSNews.com) – Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, the former governor of coal-producing West Virginia, is blasting the Obama administration for using the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate coal-fueled power plants out of business.
June 10, 2011 06:16
Government decides what light bulbs you can buy
The bulb ban makes sense only one of two ways: either as an expression of cultural sanctimony, with a little technophile thrown in for added glamour, or as a roundabout way to transfer wealth from the general public to the few businesses with the know-how to produce the light bulbs consumers don’t really want to buy.
June 2, 2011 20:02
An anti-commerce commerce secretary? Only Obama could do this
If personnel is policy, there can be no better choice to help implement President Obama’s anti-growth energy policy and redistribution of wealth plans than his choice to be the next secretary of commerce, John Bryson.
June 2, 2011 06:55
Oil, Democracy and ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
[W]e provide support to authoritarian states and inhibit the growth of democracy in those countries. This is one more reason to drill, drill, drill domestically, in places like the Eagle Ford Field in Texas.
June 1, 2011 05:07
Commerce suicide? Obama Commerce Nominee Bryson on Support for “Hidden Carbon Tax”
President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, John Bryson, speaks at a UC Berkley Energy Symposium in 2010 on support for cap-and-trade in which he calls it a “hidden tax.” Bryson is for “regulatory steps” to act “right now” to increase energy costs. Bryson advocates the type of crippling punitive carbon plan recently passed in California. Bryson should fit well with team Obama which includes an energy secretary that wants have high gasoline prices “like Europe”.
June 1, 2011 04:05
Sustainable Nonsense
Nowhere is the corruption of language more apparent than within the environmental movement. A movement that is intent on controlling every aspect of life disguises its thirst for power with words that appear to be scientific and reasonable. But when the language of the environmental left is examined, it turns out to be a fraud.
May 31, 2011 06:22
Green Policies a Substitute For Anti-Capitalist, Anti-American Ideas
Anti-capitalism is the real thrust behind the green movement and this “new economy” movement is just the latest vehicle for those creaking, failed communist-based ideas.
