Category: Green Energy

Obama’s “Green Jobs” – The Biggest Crony Payoff EVER !

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May 9, 2013

OBAMA SPENT $11.45 MILLION PER ‘GREEN JOB’ CREATED

” In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to create 5 million “green jobs” if elected president. However, an analysis by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) finds that since 2009, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) $26 billion loan program created just 2,298 permanent jobs, at a cost of $11.45 million per job created.

In his New York Times bestselling book Throw Them All Out, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer revealed that 80% of Department of Energy loans went to companies owned by or connected to President Barack Obama’s top campaign fundraisers.”

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Tags: $ 11 Million Per Job, Barack Obama, Bundlers, Campaign Contributors, Corruption, Cronyism, DOE, Green Energy, Institute for Energy Research, Scam, Stimulus, Sustainable energy, United States Department of Energy

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Charity Begets Resentment Not Gratitude – Solar Grantee Files Suit For Bigger Slice Of Pie

Filed under: Arrogance, Business, Corruption, Cronyism, Culture, Dependence, Entitlements, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Law, Monetary Policy, Politics, Scams, Science & Technology, Shame, Spending, Waste — Leave a comment

May 7, 2013

It’s Come To This: Solar Installer Now Suing The Government For More Money

” Last December, the Inspector General of the Treasury launched a probe of the three largest providers of solar panel installation companies that received funds from the much-vaunted 1603 Program — “Payments-In-Lieu-Of-Tax-Credits,” part of President Obama’s stimulus law meant to help the residential market make a switch to more renewable-energy use — as part of an ongoing investigation into whether the companies received excessive government grants via inflating their reported work costs.

One of the companies in question, SolarCity (several of whose executives and venture capital firm backers, you might remember, were generous Obama donors), is now countering with their own lawsuit against the federal government, demanding that they haven’t been paid enough money because their payouts were actually smaller than promised. From the WSJ:

The suit, filed quietly in February in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, comes as SolarCity and other industry players are defending solar-friendly government policies, and it could undermine the industry’s message that solar power will soon be viable without government help. …”

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Tags: Barack Obama, Cronyism, Greed, Lawsuit, Obama Bundlers, Solar power, SolarCity, Stimulus Grants, Tax credit, United States Court of Federal Claims, Venture capital

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Cronyism Been Bery Bery Good To Me – Says The Father Of The Internet

Filed under: Politics, Corruption, Green Energy, Arrogance, Shame, Hypocrisy, Cronyism, Conspiracy, Fraud, Environmentalism, Elitism — Leave a comment

May 6, 2013

Gore Is Romney-Rich With $200 Million After Bush Defeat

California

Tennessee

” In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows.

The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets that included pasture rents from a family farm and royalties from a zinc mine, remnants of his rural roots in Carthage, Tennessee. Funds from the cattle sale went to three of his kids, according to federal disclosure forms filed as part of his presidential run.

Fourteen years later, he made an estimated $100 million in a single month. In January, the Current TV network, which he helped to start in 2004, was sold to Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Satellite Network for about $500 million. After debt, he grossed an estimated $70 million for his 20 percent stake, according to people familiar with the transaction. “

His yacht: Bio Solar One

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Tags: Al Gore, Hypocrite, Apple, AGW, Senator, Currents, Al Jazeera, South Park, Algore, Romney Rich, ManBearPig, Carthage Tennessee

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Solar Impulse Lands Safely After Completing 1st Leg Of Trans-Continental Flight

Filed under: Art, Beauty, Engineering Marvels, Fun Stuff, Green Energy, Inspiration, Preparedness, Science & Technology — 2 Comments

May 5, 2013

Solar Plane Lands In Ariz., 1st Leg Of Major Trip

” Alone in the single-seat cockpit and high above the American Southwest, pilot Bertrand Piccard could hear only his plane’s gear box and the quiet whine of four electric motors. No noisy jet engines.

He’s flying Solar Impulse, considered the world’s most advanced sun-powered plane.

Piccard piloted the craft for 20 hours, first cruising along the California coast after taking off from Moffett Field in Mountain View near San Francisco just after dawn Friday. He passed over Edwards Air Force Base, where other aviation milestones have been made, and then touched down early Saturday morning at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

The plane’s creators, Piccard and fellow pilot Andre Borschberg, said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.”

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Tags: André Borschberg, Bertrand Piccard, Electric aircraft, Moffett Federal Airfield, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Solar Impulse, Sun Powered Plane

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Green Jet Fuel Still Being Purchased By DoD Despite Sequestration Cuts

Filed under: Corruption, Debt, Economy, Environmentalism, Foreign Policy, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Military, Monetary Policy, National Security, Politics, Shame, Spending, Taxation — 2 Comments

May 3, 2013

Despite Sequester, DOD Signs Contract For $59/Gallon Green Jet Fuel

” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon

Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.”

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Tags: $59 A Gallon, Biofuel, Chuck Hagel, Defense Dept, Defense Logistics Agency, DoD, Jet fuel, Obama, Pentagon, Renewable fuels, Sequestration, Waste

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Another Record For Obama – Guns Selling At 32 Per Minute , Every Minute Since February 1st , 2009

Filed under: Armed Citizenry, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Founding Fathers, Green Energy, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Hope and Change, Liberty, Politics, Preparedness, Self-Defense, Statism — 1 Comment

April 10, 2013

FBI Conducting 32 Gun Purchase Background Checks Per Minute Under Obama
5 Years Running
” Since February of 2009, the first full month of Obama’s presidency, there have been 70,291,049 background checks for gun purchases, according to data released by the FBI.

Divide the 70,291,049 background checks by 2,188,800 minutes and you get approximately 32 checks for gun purchases every minute! “

70,291,049 Background Checks for Gun Purchases Under Obama (givemeliberty01.com)
CNN Poll: Popular background checks also cause worry (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
Could new background check laws change how you buy a gun? Chris Cuomo tests out the current system (startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com)
Gabby Giffords falsely implies that her shooter evaded a background check (twitchy.com)
Leading Senate talks falling short of universal background checks (cnn.com)

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Tags: 32 Background Checks Per Minute, Background check, FBI, Gun Control, Gun Salesman Of The Year, Obama, Obama administration

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A Climate Change Bill Of Goods

Filed under: Arrogance, Budget Cuts, Corruption, Environmentalism, Fraud, Green Energy, History, Hypocrisy, Lies, Nanny State, Nature, Politics, Regulation, Scams, Science & Technology, Shame, Weather — Leave a comment

April 7, 2013

Climategate Leaker: Civilization Is Being Destroyed By Lying ‘Science’ Elitists

” “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably.”

This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker who calls himself “Mr. FOIA” leaked his second set of emails from Britain’s disgraced Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Now, Mr. FOIA has emerged for a third time, sharing with the world not only his entire batch of 220,000 encrypted emails and documents but also, for the first time, his thoughts.

Mr. FOIA had previously released two batches of 5,000 files each in 2009 and 2011. This enormous third batch went to a network of friends for decoding, sorting and publication.”

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Tags: AGW, Climate change, Climatic Research Unit, Climatic Research Unit email controversy, CRU, Emails, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Funding, Hockey Stick, IPCC, Leaker, Lies, Michael Mann, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, University of East Anglia, Whistleblower

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Another Obama Green Investment Fleeces The Taxpayers

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April 6, 2013

U.S. Taxpayers Could Wind Up With Fisker Automotive Assets

” Stymied by unsuccessful efforts to craft a deal with Chinese investors to save the company, struggling carmaker Fisker Automotive laid off most of its workers Friday.

Analysts said the move, combined with retaining a bankruptcy law firm last month, likely signals the death of the Anaheim company, which was founded by auto designer Henrik Fisker in 2007 with high hopes of selling highly styled hybrid sports cars and sedans.

That could leave the federal government essentially owning the automaker.

Fisker ran into a cash crunch after the federal government froze an Energy Department Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program loan in 2011. Fisker is supposed to make the first payment on some of $192 million it borrowed from the government later this month. Fisker’s tooling and other property make up the collateral on the loan.

Fisker has sold just 2,000 of its Karma hybrid sports cars and hasn’t assembled a vehicle in about nine months.

“Expect the assets to be sold for pennies on the dollar,” he said.

About 160, employees, or 80% of the staff, lost their jobs Friday. They were paid remaining vacation days but did not receive any severance payments.”

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Sarah Palin: Americans ‘need to get outraged’ over green energy losers like Fisker (twitchy.com)
Hybrid-auto maker Fisker furloughs 200 (ocregister.com)
Fisker Became the Electric Car for Idiots (247wallst.com)
Fisker lays off 75% of workforce (money.cnn.com)
Fisker Reportedly Hires Bankruptcy Lawyers Because Everything Is Going Great (jalopnik.com)
Fisker fires 75% of workforce; bankruptcy next? – NBCNews.com (nbcnews.com)
The Entire Fisker PR Team And Other Fisker Employees Will Be Laid Off In 15 Minutes (jalopnik.com)
Fisker Automotive Co-Founder Resigns as Chairman (bloomberg.com)

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Tags: Anaheim California, DOE Loans, Fisker Automotive, Fisker Karma, Government Subsidies, Green Energy Scandals, Henrik Fisker, Obama, United States Department of Energy

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In The Market For Some Class III Firearms ?

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April 5, 2013

Cowan Auctions Presents The Collection Of Richard “Dick” Wray *

” Cowan’s is pleased to announce the sale of the collection of firearms and militaria from the estate of Richard Wray. Wray, a Cincinnati, Ohio native and former president of The Wray Electric Company, had been a collector of firearms for over 50 years.

Included in this collection are close to 200 firearms, featuring over 90 rare, fresh-to-the-market, Class III weapons. There are no dealer samples and everything is fully transferable in accordance with NFA laws.”

On April 30th one of the finest collections of Class III firearms in private hands will go up for auction . Bidding will be accepted in person or online . The collection is available for preview online now , just click on the page below .

Click on the headline at the top of the page for a fantastic online photo catalog of the entire collection .

Contact our Firearms & Militaria department for additional information – firearms@cowans.com or 513-871-1670 ext. 27

NFA rules apply on all purchases of Class III weapons.

Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio is a recognized dealer in Class III items and is recognized as a (63) NRA Firearms Dealer and will comply with all regulations.

Buyers are expected to know their states laws and regulations on machine guns prior to bidding. The following states do not allow individuals to own machine guns: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. For more details please visit the website for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at www.atf.gov.

The three forms necessary to fill out upon purchase of these machine guns will be supplied by Cowan’s Auctions. These forms are: 1) ATF Form #4 (and possibly ATF Form #5) 2) Fingerprint Card, and 3) ATF form 5330.20 Certificate of Compliance.

    1 Cowan’s Auction policy is that the buyer will assume all transfer fees relating to the purchase of Class III weapons.
    2 All buyers are expected to promptly fill out paperwork and comply with all related laws and regulations.
    3 Please allow up to three months, if necessary, for paperwork to be completed to transfer a machine gun.

Check out this gallery of the worlds largest personal collection of class III machine guns (40 Photos) (guns.com)

Cowan’s to sell over 90 Class III Weapons in April 2013 Auction!

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Tags: "Assault Rifles", Anti-Tank Rifles, Cincinnati, Class III Firearms Collection, Cowan's auctions, Curios & Relics, Guns, History, Machine Guns, Private Collection, Richard Wray, SBR, Suppressors

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The “Green” Car Myth

Filed under: Arrogance, Education, Energy Independence, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Lies, Media Bias, Nanny State, Politics, Science & Technology — 2 Comments

March 17, 2013

Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret

Electric cars are promoted as the chic harbinger of an environmentally benign future. Ads assure us of “zero emissions,” and President Obama has promised a million on the road by 2015. With sales for 2012 coming in at about 50,000, that million-car figure is a pipe dream. Consumers remain wary of the cars’ limited range, higher price and the logistics of battery-charging. But for those who do own an electric car, at least there is the consolation that it’s truly green, right? Not really.

For proponents such as the actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio, the main argument is that their electric cars—whether it’s a $100,000 Fisker Karma (Mr. DiCaprio’s ride) or a $28,000 Nissan Leaf—don’t contribute to global warming. And, sure, electric cars don’t emit carbon-dioxide on the road. But the energy used for their manufacture and continual battery charges certainly does—far more than most people realize.

A 2012 comprehensive life-cycle analysis in Journal of Industrial Ecology shows that almost half the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car come from the energy used to produce the car, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is a less than green activity. By contrast, the manufacture of a gas-powered car accounts for 17% of its lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it has already been responsible for 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: 14,000 pounds.

While electric-car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, they still recharge using electricity overwhelmingly produced with fossil fuels. Thus, the life-cycle analysis shows that for every mile driven, the average electric car indirectly emits about six ounces of carbon-dioxide. This is still a lot better than a similar-size conventional car, which emits about 12 ounces per mile. But remember, the production of the electric car has already resulted in sizeable emissions—the equivalent of 80,000 miles of travel in the vehicle.

So unless the electric car is driven a lot, it will never get ahead environmentally. And that turns out to be a challenge. Consider the Nissan Leaf. It has only a 73-mile range per charge. Drivers attempting long road trips, as in one BBC test drive, have reported that recharging takes so long that the average speed is close to six miles per hour—a bit faster than your average jogger.”

Let’s Be Honest about Electric Cars, Can We? (libertynews.com)
The dirty little secret of electric cars – they’re really not green (aei-ideas.org)
When Green Isn’t Green (rightwinggranny.com)
Re: Electric Car Manufacturing’s Massive Carbon Footprint (forum.prisonplanet.com)
Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret (realclearpolitics.com)
Electric vehicles not much better than gas on overall emissions (polizeros.com)
The Zero Emissions Vehicle Remains a Myth (reason.com)

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Tags: "Zero" Emissions, Battery Life, Bjorn Lomborg, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Footprint, Climate change, CO Emissions, Electric car, Fisker Karma, Industrial ecology, Nissan Leaf, Pollution

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Ron Paul On The Second Amendment Circa 1989

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March 9, 2013

Ron Paul 2nd Amendment 1989 [Rare]

Tags: 1989, 2ND Amendment, Guns, Liberty . Inalienable Rights, Rare, Ron Paul, Video

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“The Push To Legalize Domestic Hemp Production Is Gaining Steam”

Filed under: Budget Cuts, Choice, Civil Liberties, Debt, Economy, Environmentalism, Green Energy, History, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Monetary Policy, Nanny State, Politics, Regulation, Taxation — 2 Comments

March 5, 2013

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul Join Forces to Legalize Hemp

” Though manufacturing hemp is currently just as illegal as growing smokable pot, 10 states already have frameworks in place for industrial hemp production. The problem is that the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies all forms of hemp as a controlled substance, despite the fact that industrial hemp generally contains less than 0.3 percent THC, or anywhere between 1/6 to 1/66 the amount you’ll find in marijuana. If you tried smoking hemp, you’d exhaust yourself before you got high.

Federal regulations do not differentiate between marijuana and its non-psychoactive cousin, which is used in the production of many useful items, including clothing, rope, biofuel, construction materials, and pulp for paper products. According to David West of the North American Industrial Hemp Council, more hemp products are exported to the United States from places like China and Canada than any other nation on earth.”

The Industrial Hemp Revolution Is Coming (americanlivewire.com)
Hemp legalization bills introduced to California legislature (rawstory.com)
Hemp Bill Clears House, Heads to Senate (hawaiireporter.com)
New Hemp Bills Introduced in California (eastbayexpress.com)
The Federal War on Hemp (fff.org)
Hemp fever? Senate approves hemp farming, Beshear unconvinced (whas11.com)
Kentucky Lawmakers Push to Legalize Industrial Hemp (theepochtimes.com)
Matthew Hurtt on Legalizing Domestic Hemp (reason.com)

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Tags: Attire, Biofuels, Canada, Cash Crop, David West, Drug Enforcement Administration, Farming, Hemp, Industrial Uses, Legalize Hemp, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Rope, Tetrahydrocannabinol, United States

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Americans Admit They Live In Fear Of The Federal Government

February 25, 2013

Reblogged from FROM SOVEREIGN TO SERF – Serfs UP! – Roger Sayles:

Majority Says the Federal Government Threatens Their Personal Rights

As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high. And for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms.

Envirotopia – A Future Distopia ?

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February 24, 2013

Envirotopia

A VISION OF MAN’S FUTURE

Watch for the coming release of this powerful new e-novel coming soon on all major E-readers.

” Fiction novel Envirotopia. Author’s introduction narrated by J.D. Bryden. Available at all major e-reader retailers March 2013. Get chapter previews, audiobook files, and scenic imagery at Envirotopia.net.”

Tags: AGW, Distopian Fantasy, E-Book, Envirotopia, Fiction, Greenies, Hypocrites, Introduction By J D Bryden, Kyle Becker, Luddites

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John Kerry ‘D’ Student Scientist Or Something

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Economy, Education, Energy Independence, Environmentalism, Fraud, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Idiocy, Nanny State, Politics — 1 Comment

February 22, 2013

The Wonderful World of John Kerry

” I can’t say I was surprised when I read, via a Drudge link, that John Kerry made his first foreign policy speech as secretary of State on the heavyweight scientific subject of climate change (the perils thereof, of course).

But I did have a chuckle, remembering that sometime during or after the 2004 presidential campaign it was revealed that Kerry did even more poorly at Yale than the supposedly dopey George W. Bush. In fact, the former Massachusetts senator received four “Ds” in his freshman year, including one in geology.

We can assume that our new Sec’y of State is not a science whiz. Nevertheless, Mr. Kerry is apparently certain that anthropogenic global warming is a great danger to the human race and should be the object of a major international effort.

Why does he think so? Because he assumes the vast majority of scientists say so, I would imagine. And also because that’s what thebien pensant think and there is no one more orthodox in his views than John Kerry.

A recent survey of 1077 professional engineers and geoscientists reported by Investor’s Business Daily gives quite a different picture, however: “… it turns out that only 36% believe that human activities are causing Earth’s climate to warm.” Indeed, if you read this study you find that there has been a shift among scientists and engineers away from AGW. And this is leaving out whether warming is ultimately good or bad, that the polar ice cap has been growing by leaps and bounds and that polar bear population is exploding, etc., etc.”

Here is a bit of seer Kerry’s nonsense from a few years back … a scientist he’s not …

John Kerry’s Grand Tour: Priorities For Europe – OpEd (eurasiareview.com)
So Apparently Gigolo John Kerry is a Scientist Now (pjmedia.com)
Kerry: The un-Hillary (politico.com)
John Kerry’s “Soft Power” – OpEd (eurasiareview.com)
John Kerry Scores Big Win In Buffett-Heinz Deal (huffingtonpost.com)
John Kerry to embark on ‘listening tour’ of Europe and Middle East (telegraph.co.uk)

Tags: AGW, Foreign Policy Speech, Global Warming, Idiot, John Kerry, Massachusetts, Secretary of State

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One Thing Obama Didn’t Lie About – “Under My Plan Energy Prices Will Necessarily Skyrocket”*

Filed under: Arrogance, Choice, Civil Discord, Corruption, Cronyism, Economy, Energy Independence, Environmentalism, Foreign Policy, Fraud, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Idiocy, Monetary Policy, Politics, Self-Reliance, Spending — 2 Comments

February 21, 2013

ENERGY PRODUCTION BANNED IN HALF OF PETROLEUM RESERVE

” The Obama administration on Thursday finalized plans to lock up from energy production half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska – a tract of land the size of Indiana set aside by Congress 90 years ago to assure a domestic supply of oil.

Of the 23 million acres in reserve on Alaska’s north slope, energy production will be allowed on an nearly 12 million acres believed to hold 549 million barrels of oil – a small percentage of what the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the entire reserve holds — nearly three billion barrels of recoverable oil.

The decision to significantly curtail energy development in the reserve was signed today by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and comes as gasoline prices continue to increase for the 34th day in a row.”

* Editor’s Note : While we admit that Obama spoke specifically about “electrical” prices due to coal burning generation plants , many electrical generators burn oil and/or natural gas , all of which have “skyrocketed” under his administration so spare us the nit-picking and admit that this is all a part of his plan .

Tags: Alaska, ANWR, Cronyism, Energy Prices, Green Energy Fraud, Greenies, Ken Salazar, National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, Obama, Obama administration, United States Secretary of the Interior

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What Do You Know , More “Richard Windsors” At EPA

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February 20, 2013

Another Top EPA Official Caught Using Private Email Account

” Emails released by the Environmental Protection Agency show that acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe used a private email account to conduct official business, which violates EPA policy and has raised questions about whether he was trying to shield communications from public disclosure.

The emails show that Perciasepe was using a non-official “perciasepe.org” email account to conduct official business — the second high-ranking to be caught doing so this year.

Last month, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that EPA Region 8 Administrator James Martin had used his private “me.com” email account to correspond with environmental activists. Following this report, Republicans Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana and Rep. Darrell Issa of California opened up an investigation into Martin’s email activity, arguing that the official may be trying to skirt federal transparency laws.”

BREAKING: ‘Richard Windsor’ EPA scandal spreads, EPA Administrator James Martin resigns over hidden email accounts (wattsupwiththat.com)
EPA Official Resigns (freebeacon.com)
EPA official scrutinized over emails to resign (foxnews.com)
Coal Industry Regulations Were A Laughing Matter to the EPA (cnsnews.com)
ANOTHER EPA OFFICIAL RESIGNS over use of improper “secret” email accounts. “EPA Region 8 administra… (pjmedia.com)
Acting EPA Head, Regional Official Ensnared In Windsorgate Email Scandal (joemiller.us)
Of course: Former EPA chief “Richard Windsor” had some buddies (junkscience.com)
Of course: Former EPA chief “Richard Windsor” had some buddies (hotair.com)

Tags: Bob Perciasepe, California, Darrell Issa, David Vitter, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Directors, James Martin, Law-Breaking, Lisa Jackson, Louisiana, Richard Windsors, Transparency

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Yet Another ” Green ” Fail – LG Chem – $150 Million Down The Rathole

Filed under: Arrogance, Constitution, Corruption, Crime, Cronyism, Debt, Economy, Fraud, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Law, Media Double Standards, Politics, Shame, Spending, Taxation — Leave a comment

February 14, 2013

LG Chem Michigan Has Little To Show After Spending Most Of $150M Federal Grant

” LG Chem Michigan, which received a $150-million federal grant in 2009 and more than $175 million in state and local tax relief, has not sold any battery cells to automakers, but has paid more than $1.6 million to workers who volunteered for animal shelters and charitable groups and watched movies and played video games or cards, according to a report an inspector general for the U.S. Department of Energy released today.

“We found that work performed under the grant to LG Chem Michigan had not been managed effectively,” wrote Gregory Friedman, the DOE inspector general. “Our review revealed that LG Chem Michigan inappropriately claimed and was reimbursed for labor charges incurred by a variety of supervisory and staff employees for activities that did not benefit the project.”

The department reimbursed the company for questionable labor costs incurred in the third quarter of 2012, but Friedman was unable to calculate the exact loss to the government because LG Chem Michigan did not track labor activities in detail.”

When it comes to scams , the most pertinent question to ask is ” Who Benefited ? “

Over a hundred million taxpayer dollars and no batteries yet ?

” Other findings included that:

• The plant has not yet made battery cells that could be used in electric vehicles sold to the public.

• Only about 60% of the capacity agreed to when the grant was received was constructed, even though nearly $142 million of $151 million of the Energy Department’s share of the project’s funding had been spent.

• LG Chem Michigan officials estimated that the government would need to spend $22 million more to complete the five production lines called for in the agreement, an amount that would significantly exceed the remaining funds available.

• LG Chem Michigan had significantly underestimated labor costs.

• Documentation to support the grant indicated that production of battery cells would transition from LG Chem’s South Korean facility to the Michigan plant beginning in 2012, but that didn’t happen.

• Fewer than half of the 440 expected jobs had been created to support the project.”

Tags: Electric vehicle, Grant (money), Green Energy, Inspector General, LG Chem, Michigan, South Korea, Subsidies, United States Department of Energy

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Mega Deaths For Kilowatts

Filed under: Politics, Hope and Change, Corruption, Energy Independence, Regulation, Economy, Green Energy, Scams, Arrogance, New Media, Hypocrisy, Foreign Policy, Cronyism, Fraud, Environmentalism — 4 Comments

February 5, 2013

Progressive Agenda Favors Green Energy Over Wildlife

” This must be a textbook example of cognitive dissonance, that is when diametrically-opposed ideas coexist in the same mind. To wit, self-described Progressives cherish birds and green energy, yet wind turbines kill nearly a half-million avian souls each year.”

Courtesy Of Drawn & Quartered

USA’s energy use down, renewable energy production up (nuclear-news.net)
U.S. Solar Will Eclipse Wind in 2013, Says Duke Energy – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
State ponders future Toledo turbines (toledoblade.com)
Japan plans to increase wind power three times (tokyotimes.com)
Port saves on utility bills from Milwaukee wind turbine (jsonline.com)
CNFL to invest $30 million in new wind farm (insidecostarica.com)

Tags: Hypocrites, Fraud, Cronyism, Green Energy, Environmentalists, Wind turbine, Renewable energy, Sustainable energy, Watt, Green Money

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Government Business As Usual

Filed under: Corruption, Crime, Cronyism, Debt, Economy, Education, Entitlements, Green Energy, Health/Medicine, Monetary Policy, Nanny State, Politics, Regulation, Taxation — 3 Comments

January 30, 2013

14 Big Government Programs That Failed to Achieve Their Goals

prohibition

” Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the “…manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States…”

Congress passed the “Volstead Act” on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities simply ignored the law and bootlegged alcohol to meet demand, creating a huge black market rife with crime and corruption. Prohibition was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933, essentially acknowledging the exercise had been pointless and counter-productive.”

Tags: Amnesty, Amtrak, DDT, Drug War, Ethanol, Farm Subsidies, Government Failures, Green Jobs, Medicaid, Medicare, Prohibition, Stimulus, TARP, Unintended Consequences

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Remember The Green Scandals ?

Filed under: Hope and Change, Science & Technology, Corruption, Regulation, Economy, Green Energy, Scams, Arrogance, Monetary Policy, Shame, Hypocrisy, Debt, Cronyism, Media Bias, Crime — Leave a comment

January 18, 2013

100 Percent FED Up

Tags: A123, Beacon Power, BrightSource, Cronyism, Evergreen Solar, First Solar, Fisker, Obama, Scams, Solyndra, SpectraWatt, Sun Power

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Swamp Gas

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January 10, 2013

Scientists Discover How To Make Fuel From Sunlight

” Scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered how to make fuel from sunlight and engineered cyanobacteria — commonly known as blue-green algae.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered how to create chemical precursors for fuel and plastic using sunlight and cyanobacteria, otherwise known as blue-green algae.

“Most chemical feedstocks come from petroleum and natural gas, and we need other sources,” said Shota Atsumi, assistant professor of chemistry at UC Davis.

By 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy hopes to obtain a quarter of industrial chemicals using biological processes.

The premise behind this discovery is photosynthesis — the forming of carbon-carbon bonds through carbon dioxide and the power of sunlight. “

Engineered Bacteria Make Fuel from Sunlight (consciouslifenews.com)
Engineered algae seen as fuel source (upi.com)
Blue-Green Algae Holds Promise for Commercially-Made Fuels, Plastics (dailytech.com)
Engineered Algae Seen As Fuel Source (personalliberty.com)
Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight (universityofcalifornia.edu)
Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight (esciencenews.com)
Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight (rdmag.com)
Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight (sciencedaily.com)

Tags: Blue-Green Algae, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon–carbon bond, Chemical industry, Cyanobacteria, Photosynthesis, Sunlight, United States Department of Energy, University of California, University of California Davis

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Desperately Needed Jobs For Upstate … But Will They Be Allowed To Be Created ?

Filed under: Arrogance, Celebrity Asshats, Choice, Corruption, Economy, Education, Election, Energy Independence, Green Energy, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Media Bias, Nanny State, Politics, Regulation, Science & Technology — 7 Comments

January 5, 2013

Fracking Found Safe In New York; Let Revolution Begin

” Gov. Andrew Cuomo reportedly has been long aware of the February 2012 research compiled by state officials, who concluded that hydraulic fracturing could be performed safely in New York. Yet amid political pressure from the environmentalist lobby, he buried the findings. The report became public in recent days when a copy was leaked to a newspaper.

When Cuomo campaigned, he indicated he was open to approving the process, which has been shut down in New York since a 2008 moratorium. But he’s apparently nervous about crossing those opposed to it.

We suggest Cuomo stiffen his spine. The benefits of fracking are phenomenal.

Fracking uses fluids injected under pressure to shatter rock and release oil and natural gas. It is not a new process. But it has been modernized and is taking energy output to new heights. “

Report Debunks Damon Fracking Movie (freebeacon.com)
Fracking supported in two new surveys (timesleader.com)
Cuomo Puts First Things First: Re-election (commentarymagazine.com)
Fracking can be done safely in New York state: dept report (reuters.com)
Pluralities in N.Y., Pa. back drilling for natural gas in Marcellus shale, surveys find (triblive.com)
Is Cuomo stalling on declaring fracking safe for New York? (hotair.com)
Andrew Cuomo Would Rather Not Have Jobs For New York (nalert.blogspot.com)
Fracking is Safe Says New York State Health Department (reason.com)

Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Buried Report, Depressed, Economy, Energy Independence, Evironmentalists, February 2012, Fracking Safe, Greens, Hydraulic fracturing, Jobs, New York, Pennsylvania, Upstate New York

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Misinformation or Disinformation ?

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December 17, 2012

Dereliction: A Constant Stream of Media Misinformation in Conn. Shooting

” The Old Media establishment has done a disservice to an American public heartbroken over the murders at a Connecticut grade school by reporting untrue “facts” over and over again and by using emotionally tinged phrases that do not relay fact but instead push an agenda.

Here are just a few of the badly garbled “facts” in this story that the media rushed to “report” before any truth was put to them.

Of course, the very first major mix up was the shooter’s name.

Also from the beginning, the murderer was reported as having strode through the school with a .223-caliber rifle, often referred to by the media here as an “assault weapon.”

Lanza is also being said to have been wearing “combat gear.” What does this even mean?

Some reporters are calling the killer’s mother an “avid gun collector.” There is no basis for this label.

There’s Lot’s More At The Link . Read It All .

What happened in Connecticut Elementary School Shooting (americanlivewire.com)
Enemies of Second Amendment Will Exploit Connecticut Shooting (pakalertpress.com)
Nancy Lanza Was Prepping for Collapse (drudge.com)
This is not that Ryan Lanza (al.com)
Is This Ryan Lanza, the Connecticut School Shooter? (gawker.com)
Apparently, This Is NOT Connecticut School Shooter Ryan Lanza’s Facebook (mediaite.com)
Connecticut school shooting: This is probably the wrong Ryan Lanza (deathandtaxesmag.com)

Tags: Bias, Connecticut, Elementary school, Facebook, Facts, Ignorance, Lanza, Media, Misinformation, Murder, Newtown Connecticut, Rush To Judgement, School shooting

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