$90-billion investment to subsidize renewable energy sources in the natural world does surprisingly little. This amount, allocated in 2009’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to subsidize green energy initiatives, has thus far yielded today’s bustling “renewable-energy sector” that employs roughly 140,000 Americans. And even that dismal figure is wildly inflated. – American Thinker
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April 16, 2012 04:32
The Decline of Greenism
The loss of political support for the environmentalism reflects the disgust of conservatives today, and this is based upon three distinct failures: (1) the Green rejection of common sense and market operations, (2) worship of dirt replacing stewardship of Creation, and (3) the willingness of Greenies to win arguments through unsavory means. – American Thinker
April 15, 2012 15:43
Four more years of this insanity?
Yates Walker has assessed Obama’s term succinctly in 231 words. – The Daily Caller
April 15, 2012 14:42
“Greenbacks” energy boondoggles versus real energy
Wind, solar, algae and switchgrass companies take billions in Other People’s Money. They pay virtually no taxes, and provide virtually no usable energy, except in the minds and press releases of their promoters.
April 15, 2012 14:31
Power Grab for Natural Gas – New Executive Order
The new Executive Order issued [Friday the 13th], “Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources” must give you pause.
April 10, 2012 05:22
Is Obama ‘Dangerously Close To Totalitarianism’?
Given the president’s end-runs around Congress, his shredding of the Constitution and his assault on the authority of the courts, a second term free of electoral restraints may be a frightening prospect. – IBD Editorials
April 9, 2012 05:43
Subsidized and Expensive Solar Energy Bites the Dust Again
The reality is that there is no cheaper substitute right now for fossil fuels as a source of energy, no matter how the administration and its proponents spin it.
April 9, 2012 05:01
The Environmental Terrorizing of Children
The great lie of communism is that it will create a collectivist utopia. In reality it has always depended on terror to maintain itself and it has failed wherever it has been tried. Environmentalism is its latest permutation.
April 6, 2012 04:44
Obama Gives Coal Miners the Shaft
It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be dismissed or ignored so that wealthy environmental groups can be accommodated.
April 5, 2012 04:20
Canadians Protest Wind Power Subsidies That Raise Rates
“unbridled and unnecessary development” of wind power projects throughout Ontario, “which is altering rural communities, causing power bills to rise dramatically, and even causing some people to become ill from exposure to the environmental noise.”
