The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Welsh discusses whether the electric vehicle can make it through the winter weather. Government subsidies and government purchases have failed to prop up Chevy Volt sales. Electric cars are essentially coal powered since 46% of electricity is generated by coal.
Archive for Category: "Global Warming & Environment"
January 20, 2011 05:55
The Assault on Drilling Is Onshore, Too
The Obama Administration is doing much more harm than good. Gas prices are nearly 40 cents per gallon higher than what they were last year and show no sign of falling any time soon.
January 19, 2011 06:59
Obama’s War On Coal – and your electricity
Guess those electric cars will have to get their energy elsewhere. Keeping a campaign vow to bankrupt the industry, the administration revokes the permit for an approved, working coal mine in West Virginia.
January 18, 2011 09:27
Revolution in the Rust Belt
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan on repealing ObamaCare, confronting the EPA, and regulating the Internet and ending the light bulb ban.
January 18, 2011 07:49
The No Subsidies Energy Policy
If Obama wants to set us on a path to a sustainable-energy future – and a green one, too – he should propose a very simple solution to the current mess: eliminate all energy subsidies. Yes, all of them – oil, coal, gas, nuclear, ethanol, and wind and solar.
January 18, 2011 04:30
Clint Didier: EPA May Force Me to Shut Down Farm
“Eat the dang money’ Didier says to Obama regarding farm subsidies. Farmers are concerned about a new EPA plan to create 500 foot ‘buffer’ zones along all creeks and water ways without cause and without congressional action.
January 17, 2011 08:19
The Great ‘Climate Change’ Taxpayer Rip-Off of 2011
This is just the tip of the ‘climate change’ rip-off in terms of billions wasted or soon to be wasted on “research” that can only be deemed an obscene diversion of taxpayer money that will not benefit a single taxpayer, generate any new jobs except for those in government agencies, and further bankrupt a bankrupted nation about to have its credit rating reduced.
January 17, 2011 06:18
Is Obama lying about his focus on jobs and the economy?
David Asman compares the administration’s words with the reality of government actions that are destroying jobs and driving up energy prices which will cripple the economy.
January 17, 2011 05:49
E.P.A. Revokes Coal Mining Permit It Had Granted in 2007
The agency’s action on Thursday preempted a court decision and provoked an immediate outcry from West Virginia politicians, the coal industry and other businesses that have raised objections to what they consider economically damaging regulatory overreach by the E.P.A.
January 14, 2011 15:09
Global warming … er Climate change explained
A liberal tries to explain why she thinks the world will end, and what should be done about it. So simple a leftist can understand it.
