The Truth About the EPA
It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week at the White House—and it isn’t looking like next week will be any better. You probably know about Obama’s trifecta of troubles: the Benghazi story about the attack that killed four Americans and the aftermath that falsely blamed a YouTube video that “continues to smolder [...]
It uses tons of fossil fuels every day, emits a greenhouse gas that’s like CO2 on steroids, can’t do the job it’s made for, costs taxpayers exorbitant fees, and makes the federal government look mentally ill for giving it outrageous subsidies. It also chops up birds, bats and scenery with roads and monstrous 400-foot-tall machines. [...]
Recently, scientists at the CO2 monitoring station at Mona Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced that CO2 levels in the earth’s atmosphere have reached 400 parts per million. Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that CO2 levels haven’t been this high in 2 million years. On the surface, it seems we should [...]
Coal-fired power plant in China. Photo by D. Dears Many promises have been made concerning biofuels, but can those promises be kept? Periodically some type of biofuel is splashed across the headlines. Algae was the darling of the media a few months ago. Earlier it was all about cellulosic ethanol. Then there was ethanol from [...]
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority, yet policy gets in the way and prevents practical solutions. I’ve previously participated in and reported on various public meetings and hearings where the local citizens rally to draw media [...]
Middle school students in one school outside of Denver, Colo. were recently confronted by a couple of in-your-face environmental extremists known as the Earth Guardians. The duo presented a rap song called “What the Frack,” which claims that hydraulic fracturing “poisoned the water, poisoned the air, [and] poisoned the people.” Evidence backing up the activists’ claims is [...]
In the article Do We Have Enough Natural Gas?, published April 12, an estimate was made of how much natural gas would be required to convert 25% or 50% of coal-fired power plants to natural gas. In the 25% scenario, coal would account for 40% of electricity generated in the United States. This compares with a [...]
Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was “The Face of Climate Change.” Other than a change in the Post Office cancellation mark on your letters from the usual wavy lines to the four stick-like wind turbines and a sun symbol, there was little note of what was once [...]
In his New York Times op-ed, Thomas Friedman calls for the imposition of a carbon tax1. Not only is this a terrible idea, but it’s totally unnecessary. At $25 per ton, it could, according to Friedman, raise around $1 trillion over 10 years. He recognizes this will hurt people, so he suggests the government return [...]
We can’t have an energy strategy that traps us in the past,” President Obama proclaimed in March 2012. “We need an energy strategy for the future – an all-of-the-above strategy for the Twenty-First Century that develops every source of American-made energy.” At first blush, this sounds like common sense. The US economy and lifestyle “depend on [...]
