“The United States as a nation is 222 years old, yet over one-third [...]]]>

Obama insists the taxes he wants to raise won’t take effect until after the recession [...]]]>

In the category of, “Are You Freaking Kidding Me?” Mitt Romney says the economy is not worse under Obama.

Now, Romney has been running since 2008′s campaign was over. Am I to believe [...]]]>

From his own economists. The ones he selected. The economists he hand-picked. The fellas with the visors on, did the numbers [...]]]>

The argument of whether or not the country should have spent almost a trillion dollars on a stimulus is over.

Big Government [...]]]>

We have a situation here that a lot of us, that have listened to talk radio, have known can happen with the policies of Obama. This is the second warning in a day!

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Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Picking up where we left off last week, the [...]]]>

Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Picking up where we left off last week, the final story on the round-up was about how China has been subsidizing wind and solar and coal, virtually their entire energy production roster, and how they are out-subsidizing us. This week NRO’s Greg Pollowitz goes further and shows that despite China’s energy subsidies, you cannot get past the fact that wind and solar do next to nothing in actual megawatts of energy production:

But despite this rapid progress, wind energy still only generates a tiny fraction of China’s electricity. Indeed, even with aggressive government backing and green energy mandates, such “new energy” — including wind, solar, nuclear power plants, and biomass — accounts for less than 3 percent of China’s electricity production, compared to more than 70 percent provided by coal..

This is evidence of why coal power cannot easily be replaced with wind and solar, but also by nuclear:

Just to supply one-quarter of its current energy mix from a resource that emits far fewer greenhouse gases — nuclear power — the U.S. would need to build 1,000 one-gigawatt nuclear reactors by 2050. Yet construction has begun on only two nuclear reactors in the U.S. since 1974. And just to power an electric car and truck fleet to replace the U.S.’s current gas and ethanol-fueled one would require 500 new nuclear power plants. There are currently 442 reactors in the entire world, of which the U.S. has 104 — the most of any nation.

The Green Movement is loud and whiny, but they are not working fast enough to beat what they see as the thing that will kill the planet. Because it cannot be beat, and it will not kill the planet. Coal is part of the planet.

One of the funnier posts on Anthony Watts’ blog, “Watts Up With That?” is the graph in “Alarming Trends” he posted from Bishop Hill’s blog. He added more words to the query to make a funnier and more pertinent example in his final graph. Just how the books that pertain to bullshit and global warming rise at the same time is interesting, no?

Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Yes, You Could Say I’m A Global Warming [...]]]>

Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Yes, You Could Say I’m A Global Warming Denier, but only if you communicate in negatives. There is not a pink elephant in my kitchen, but that doesn’t mean I’m denying it, it means there is not one there.
Watt’s Up With That? is a blog devoted to the Global Warming Myth, and is where I stole this graph, but also the latest argument killer of the “climate change movement.” Dr. Kevin Trenberth says that since the IPCC says global warming is “unequivocal,” that now we must prove that man has absolutely no effect on climate change. Willis Eschenbach explains.
WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?

What an absolute mess the British Police have made.
They sent a police officer, well actually, many police officers undercover to live amongst the hippies, I mean eco-terrorists. While he was undercover, Mark Kennedy slept with more than a few of the hippy women, even though he is married. The whole undercover police thing fell apart when the eco-marxists planned an attack on a coal plant. Kennedy came clean, (I actually don’t know if he showered or not,) told everything, and now, the police are in trouble for sending him undercover in the first place. Get this, the attorney for the eco-nutso’s is actually suggesting that Kennedy be held up for rape because the women did not know they were compromising themselves with a non-hippy. How does law and order become all jumbled up? Think this is all far-fetched? You are looking at America in 20 years if we don’t stop these environmental whackjobs.

If I told you that if we don’t do something about the climate and how it changes, in a thousand years, things may be different, what would your reaction be?

If we stopped emitting carbon dioxide now, which would bring us close to the 2010 scenario, it’s unlikely the ice sheet would collapse, Gillett said.

STOP EXHALING!

I found it comical to read these two articles back to back. One from Grand Rapids, and one from Ludington.
Pros, cons of wind energy get a closer look at local forum
Residents share wind turbine concerns
Nevertheless, those who don’t necessarily read these types of articles may not see the comedy. The pros and cons of wind energy are being juxtaposed against the cons of coal plants. And, the cons of the coal plants are given only by the wind pros, and they are wrong.
For instance, the wind pros say that their product causes observable “fatal collisions birds and bats have with turbines, counting carcasses and observing feathers flying,” and the other story confirms that by saying, “noise, blade throw, ice throw — if ice formed on the blades loosens and then is thrown from the blade — bats and birds.” All of that is quite unnerving. But, in order to prove that wind turbines are good, the wind pro said, “Acidification of soil and water changes habitats, and mercury is killing animals, she said….Climate change due to coal-driven power could eliminate entire ecosystems that took thousands of years to develop.” That is first of all, not true, and second of all, not a reason to get a wind turbine. Of course, by looking at the video on the Ludington site, you will see just how fun it would be to live by a wind turbine.

Evergreen Solar closing Massachusetts plant because of competition from ‘heavily subsidized solar manufacturers in China’
And lastly, this story is sad, and shows the inevitable end to all the wonderful green energy subsidization in America. Sometimes, we just have to realize that China will always out-subsidize us.

Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Down on Upton: Michigan Energy News Undercuts Rep’s [...]]]>

Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.

Down on Upton: Michigan Energy News Undercuts Rep’s Rap
Henderson is in charge of the Midwest Division of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and is upset that Upton has changed his tune on energy. Henderson believes his efforts with the NRDC are helping improve the planet. In my view, Henderson has a God complex, and nothing he is doing is helping our nation improve it’s economy, even though he says his way of fighting “climate change” is creating jobs. If Henderson was so interested in nature, he would have learned long ago that the earth heals on it’s own, and the world’s climate changes and there is nothing we can do about it. I see little reason for Fred Upton to hear him out on this, but I found it interesting that he tries to convince the reader that his point of view has merit after he says, “Whether you agree with the climate science or not, everyone can agree that eliminating the massive toll taken by air and water pollution that comes along with coal plants—as well as eliminating waste from our energy system—is unambiguously good.” With that sentence, he switches the focus from “climate change” to pollution. The new coal plants are very clean, and brand new technology fights pollutants. The fact is, the renewable energy he is talking about cannot produce the amount of energy that coal can, nor the amount of jobs. Henderson is a coal-industry hater, even though coal is part of nature.

U.S. does not have infrastructure to consume more ethanol
A study done by Purdue University says that unless something is done, ethanol production in America is an exercise in futility. There aren’t enough flex-fuel vehicles on the road, and the owners of many of these types of cars don’t know they can use that type of fuel, or won’t, or can’t find a pump. Wally Tyner used information from the EPA to come to the conclusion that the saturation point has been reached when it comes to ethanol. “Even if you could produce a whole bunch of E85, there is no way to distribute it,” Tyner said. “We would need to install about 2,000 pumps per year through 2022 to do it. You’re not going to go from 100 per year to 2,000 per year overnight. It’s just not going to happen.” Tyner goes on to say that ethanol would have to be cheaper than gasoline in order to be energy efficient.

Scientists: BP’s oil lingers, but bacteria ate natural gas
The title of the article is misleading. The story says they can’t find the oil, but the natural gas was eaten up by bacteria. All that really means is they can’t find the oil (but maybe it was eaten up too, but we can’t prove it.) Fair enough, but this story is something Henderson-with-the-God-complex should read. Isn’t nature wonderful? Or, as a friend of mine said, “”gee, bacteria eats cow farts. someone should inform the EPA.” If you don’t get the reference, read this, Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas Oh, the jokes are just careening through me brain.

To Complain About Limited Resources is Like a Trillionaire’s Child Complaining About Allowance; The Case for Optimism from the Ocean Floor
Mark Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the University of Michigan-Flint. You should read it, but Henderson-with-the-God-complex should read it too.

Mother Earth is abundant, she has natural cycles, she heals herself, and adapts to adversity. All of nature does this.