Senator Roger Wicker, R-MS introduced legislation, S 344, with Sen. David Vitter, R-La to reverse an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that would lead to an increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline. The legislation would prohibit the EPA…
Tag: Energy
Obama Nominates Another Tree Hugger To Head EPA
President Barack Obama told reporters that he is choosing EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, the architect of unprecedented restrictions on energy use and power generation, to become the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. McCarthy is a longtime advocate…
Taxes To Control The Weather?
Contrary to the lessons of history, President Obama seems to believe that there is nothing that cannot be improved through the magic of higher taxes. But taxes to control the weather? Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes…
Speak Up For The Keystone Pipeline
As is typical with the Obama administration, anything they wish to sneak by the public is usually released late on Friday. This last Friday proved to be no different. The U.S. State Department released its draft report on the proposed…
Godfather of Hypocrisy
It should come as no surprise that for Al Gore, the Godfather of Hypocrisy, the perfect future he envisions, at least for the rest of us, is one in which democracy and capitalism as we know them have ceased to…
Scientists Say There Is No Consensus On Climate Change
Environmental groups gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Sunday in 30 some degree weather to pressure Obama to reject the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. Speakers portrayed the battle over the pipeline as a struggle between grassroots green groups and deep-pocketed…
Another Obama Green Fraud
This is just the latest in a long list of Obama’s wasteful spending on his “green” agenda that have cost taxpayers. In 2010, Mr. Obama attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Holland, Mich., for a battery factory owned by LG Chem Ltd.,…
Biggest Driver Of Oil Prices Is The Fed
Right now, the biggest driver of oil prices, or the biggest supporter of ‘high oil prices,’ is not OPEC but it’s really the Federal Reserve, with their policy of really keeping the value or the cost of money artificially low;…
ELECTRICAL POLLUTION KILLS
Even if you could overlook the fact that CFL’s contain mercury which could require the use of a hazmat suit if broken, or that they are expensive, it is hard to overlook the fact that they are adding to the…
Governor McDonnell Proposes Eliminating Virginia’s Gas Tax
Virginia is transferring $364 million a year from our construction account to our maintenance account. Money meant for building new roads is being used just to patch up old ones up. That crossover amount is anticipated to grow to $500 million…
It’s The Washington Way
If you pay close attention, you’ll see that nearly every substantive bill the Senate passes harms you and your family through more spending, higher taxes, and more regulations. It’s the Washington way. And I wish this was limited to when…
Incandescents or Hazmat: There’s No Longer Much Choice
Update on the dangers of CFL’s: According to a recent study, compact fluorescent light bulbs emit high levels of ultra violet radiation. Research at Long Island’s Stony Brook found that the bulbs emit rays so strong that they can actually…
For “Green Energy” Tomorrow Never Comes
Businesses that need government “investment” are usually so marginal that they can not attract private investors. Businesses that are needed, that produce something worthwhile don’t need our tax money to survive, to make a profit, to attract investors. Which brings…
Agenda 21: The Trojan Horse
We’ve know for years that the federal government was hell-bent on removing any local control and input from average American citizens concerning what you can do with your own land, private property, local schools, and local infrastructures from bridges to meeting…
The Chickens Have It!
There is more than one way to kill the fossil fuel industry. In payback to his environmental activist voters, the Obama administration has initiated a plan to declare the lesser prairie chicken a threatened species, citing its imperiled habitat—which just happens…