Green Energy on Townhall
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The Environmentalist Error Tue Apr 30Robert KnightNow that an unusually cold spring is giving way to warmer weather and Earth Day is behind us, it’s a good time to revisit the campaign to turn us all into progressive environmentalists. ... more
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John RansomFisker actually did build some cars, but most of them flooded before some spontaneously caught fire, just like the Chevy Volt. ... more
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Smart Money Abandoning Renewable Energy Sun Apr 7Marita NoonWithout subsidies, renewables cannot compete, so BP is bailing. Amy Grace, a New York-based analyst at New Energy Finance, said: “There’s limited visibility beyond 2014 about what the assets will be worth as a tax credit supporting turbines is set to expire at the end of this year.” ... more
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Green Tyranny Wed Apr 3John StosselEnvironmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations -- or hate trees and animals. ... more
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Who Would Follow Our Example on Keystone? Fri Mar 15Jonah GoldbergWhile many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose -- or whatever their Uncle Sam equivalent is -- always wears his blue blazer and school tie and does his chores without being asked. Canada is a global citizen, a good neighbor, a northern Puerto Rico with an EU sensibility that earns its gold stars from the United Nations every day. ... more
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Guy Benson
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EPA, Court Decisions and Simple Facts Tue Feb 5Jack RafuseRecently, a federal court sided with the American Petroleum Institute (API) and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower its biofuel volume target. ... more
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AmericaU.S. taxpayers have forked over nearly $4 billion to foreign-owned companies as part of a stimulus program that pays cash grants to green-energy firms, according to a newly released congressional report. ... more
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Obama's Giveaway to the Communists Tue Jan 15Phyllis SchlaflyThe China problem is not just that China is raking in trillions of dollars because of Obama's spending and borrowing binges, and it's not just that government policies encourage well-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs to move overseas. An even bigger problem is that the Obama administration is about to give Communist China some of our most precious and up-to-date military technology. ... more
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Donald LambroHave you seen the latest development in President Obama's waste-ridden, clean energy program that's now under federal investigation at the U.S. Treasury Department? ... more
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David RothbardThe eighteenth Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-18) has ended. It was the latest chapter in the interminable negotiations over wealth redistribution and control of energy use and economic growth – in the name of preventing “dangerous manmade global warming.” ... more
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Obama’s Walt Disney Energy Policies Sat Dec 8Paul DriessenIn Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film “Pinocchio,” woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy. ... more
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Mr. Top-Down Himself, Barack Obama Tue Nov 6Bill MurchisonBefore he touted "revenge" as a motive for supporting his reapplication for the presidential job, Barack H. Obama wished voters to appreciate how icky-yucky he finds "top-down economics." He renewed the theme in his closing electoral appeal. "The folks at the very top" (with Obama, it's always folks, never "people" or "citizens," but let that go), we learn, "don't need another champion in Washington. ... more
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Guy Benson
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John Hawkins20) I can tell you that if you were to elect President Obama, you know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a repeat of the last four years. We just can’t afford four more years like the last four years. -- Mitt Romney ... more
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Winners and Losers Energy Policies Thu Oct 18Paul DriessenGovernor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern and Russian oil. ... more
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Katie Pavlich
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Energy Poverty: The Price of 'Going Green' Sun Oct 14AmericaAEI: "The higher costs of green fuels end up in household utility bills. That hurts lower-income families who are forced to pay a higher share of their wages on energy" ... more
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Leah Barkoukis
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Tragedy of Rising Energy Prices Fri Sep 21Tim PhillipsThere is pain associated with $4.00 a gallon gasoline. It’s not the kind you see on the news every night but it is just as tragic. ... more
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"Weirding" Our Sanity and Democracy Sat Sep 15Paul DriessenPick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the “consensus” view. Climatology is no exception. ... more
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Katie Pavlich
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Paul DriessenEPA rules impair our energy, economy, jobs, health, welfare, justice and civil rights progress. ... more
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Erika Johnsen
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Keeping Nature Exactly as Is ... Forever Wed May 2John StosselThe human brain is torn between simple intuition and the more complex hard work of figuring out the unintended consequences of any policy. Who doesn't like thinking about trees and greenery and happy animals? ... more
