Unemployment will get worse!
Health care bill, if passed, will slow hiring.
Cap & trade, if passed, will send more jobs
      to countries with low energy rates.
Proposed value added tax will eliminate more US jobs.
No new oil or nuclear jobs in sight.
Government income (taxes) is lagging.
Government hiring balooning.

Sept 28, 2009
Boxer, Kerry Set to Introduce Climate Bill in Senate
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN of ClimateWire
Ending some nine months of closed-door deliberations, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader Senate negotiations and an eventual conference with the House.   more

September 25, 2009
The American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act:
A Bipartisan Pro-Energy Bill
By Ben Lieberman
It is rare these days to see a congressional bill that is both bipartisan and worthwhile. This is even more true for a controversial and polarizing topic like energy. But the American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act (H.R. 2227) is one such bill. Its measures to increase America's offshore oil and natural gas production more than make up for the bill's shortcomings.   report      HR-2227 - bill

September 25, 2009
Venezuela acknowledges that Iran is helping it find uranium reserves
Basic Industries and Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz confirmed that Iran is providing Venezuela with help in detecting uranium reserves in the western and southwestern parts of the country, which "are significant", according to initial estimates. Sanz, who is on Margarita Island attending the Second Africa and South America Summit, explained that initial evaluations "have allowed for the detection of anamolies which indicate the presence of uranium. Our geological makeup indicate that we might have significant uranium reserves. If uranium is found the decision to certify that mineral would be President Hugo Chavez's. Chavez supports developing nuclear energy for peaceful ends."   more

September 22, 2009
Carbon Offsets Do Not Offset the Economic Pain of Cap and Trade
Waxman-Markey proposes a new national tax of historic proportions
Chris Williams explains how the climate bill making its way through Congress is more focused on preserving corporate profits than the environment.
Heritage's Research on the Cap and Trade Global Warming Bill
There’s a point at which you’ve got to ask yourself, what are we doing here?   more

September 22, 2009 Americas Power
26th Annual International Coal Conference
What they’re saying at the International Coal Conference..
Pittsburgh is hosting the 26th Annual International Coal Conference, an event that focuses on environmental issues and technologies surrounding the continued use of coal, along with the development of future coal-based plants to achieve near zero emissions. Here’s a sampling of what scientists, academics and energy industry leaders have been saying at the conference:   more

September 21, 2009
Concentrating emissions
Research and Development Magazine
Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions at coal-burning power plants.
Their system, called pressurized oxy-fuel combustion, provides a way of separating all of the carbon-dioxide emissions produced by the burning of coal, in the form of a concentrated, pressurized liquid stream. This allows for carbon dioxide sequestration: the liquid CO2 stream can be injected into geological formations deep enough to prevent their escape into the atmosphere.   more

September 21, 2009
U.N.: China Poised To Lead Climate Change Fight
Manufacturing.Net - John Heilprin, Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- As the United States lags on climate legislation, the U.N. climate chief says China is poised to join the European Union in claiming "front-runner" status among nations battling climate change.
The U.N. summit on climate change Tuesday and the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh at the end of this week are intended to add pressure the United States and other rich nations to commit to cuts and cough up billions of dollars to help developing nations install new technologies and take other actions to adapt to climate change.   more
China is already ahead of the US in carbon emissions and building more coal plants every month!

September 19, 2009 -- BY PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL
Don't Be Crude
Why Barack Obama's energy-dependence talk is just demagoguery.
"Energy independence" has become a byword on the American political scene, and invoking it is now as essential as baby-kissing. All the recent U.S. presidential candidates employed it, and to this day, the White House Web site lists as a guiding principle the need to "curb our dependence on fossil fuels and make America energy independent." Expect a whole new round of such rhetoric when the global economic recovery begins, and with it, higher oil prices return.   more

Buy the car you like while you are still allowed to: September 15, 2009 -- Manufacturing.Net
White House Unveils New Fuel Economy Rules By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With global talks on climate change looming, the Obama administration sought to gain momentum Tuesday by unveiling its plan to require better gas mileage for cars and trucks and tougher rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson released the proposed regulations at the White House, the follow-up to President Barack Obama's announcement in May that the government regulations would link emissions and fuel economy standards.   more

Sept. 9, 2009 -- Moskow Times
Russia is surpassing Saudi Arabia in oil exports for the first time since the Soviet Union’s collapse as the country exploits OPEC production cuts to gain market share.
Exports of crude and refined products from Russia rose to about 7.4 million barrels per day in the second quarter, according to Energy Ministry data. Saudi shipments fell to about 7 million bpd, International Energy Agency estimates of output and domestic demand showed.
Investors had expected Russian supplies to decline this year after Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in December that his government was ready to limit production to support prices. Instead, the country is providing tax breaks for new fields in Siberia. Rosneft, LUKoil and TNK-BP pumped more as prices rose 54 percent to nearly $69 a barrel.   more

Sept. 9, 2009 -- Alex Anishyuk and Nabi Abdullaev
Chavez to Talk Energy but Not Arms
The Kremlin says oil and gas deals are expected to be signed during this week's visit by the Venezuelan president, who is on an 11-day world tour that has included visits to other energy powerhouses such as Turkmenistan and Algeria.   more

Sept. 7, 2009 -- Allah Akbar! -- Associated Press.
Chavez To Export Gasoline To Iran
TEHRAN, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that his country is ready to provide Iran with gasoline, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday.
In a joint press conference with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad late Sunday, Chavez said that his country is ready to provide Tehran with 20,000 barrels of gasoline per day, the report said.
"Based on the agreement, Venezuela will import machinery and technology (from Iran) in exchange for export of gasoline ... (which is) a strategic move," he was quoted as saying.   more
Who will inspect the "machinery and technology"? Remember Castro and Cuba!

September 4, 2009 -- Frank Langfitt -- npr
August Unemployment At 26-Year High
The Labor Department said Friday the nation's unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since 1983. But the economy shed a net total of 216,000 jobs, the fewest monthly losses in a year.   more

September 4, 2009 -- by Elliott Abrams
Hillary v. Honduras
The Obama administration declares it won't recognize the results of a free and fair election. Honduras's ejected president Mel Zelaya saw the Secretary and apparently persuaded her that the outcome of Honduras's next elections must be rejected. On what basis? None was stated, and no logical basis exists. The next elections will be entirely constitutional and held on time; and the term of office of the ousted Zelaya would end naturally and constitutionally when a new president is sworn in, in January.   more
Why?   "we have to give in to Chaves's demands"

Sept 3, 2009 -- The Economist
Africa and climate change -- A green ransom
Make the rich world feel guilty about global warming
RICH countries should compensate Africa for all their belching chimneys and exhausts. In a rare fit of African unity, it was decided at a recent flurry of leaders’ meetings that the United States, the European Union, Japan and others should pay the continent the tidy sum of $67 billion a year, though it was unclear for how long. Ethiopia’s prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is likely to lead a delegation of 53 countries (all of Africa minus Morocco) to the climate-change summit in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, in December, where he will presumably lodge this demand.   more
That leaves Americans out. We're not rich anymore.

September 1, 2009 -- US Patent Office
System and method for the manufacture of fuel
Agent(s) Johnson & Associates
Patent Office: United States of America Patent and Trademark Office. Granted Patents (USPTO)   
A method and system is provided relating to the production of ethanol or other renewable bio-fuels on a mass, large scale basis while maintaining a positive energy balance. In one example, the present invention relates to a system and method for the mass manufacture of fuel, fuel stock, or fuel additives by using dry or drying up hydrocarbon wells as a heat source in the manufacturing process. In one example, the distillation column is constructed from dried up oil wells.   more

Sept. 1, 2009 -- Poder
Business is Business -- Venezuela maintained oil shipments to the U.S. during the first half of 2009
An Energy Department report shows that during the first half of 2009, Venezuela sent an average 1.1 million barrels of oil daily to the U.S. That figure is 0.68% higher than exports for the same period in 2008.   more
Meanwhile we have to give in to Chaves's demands in Honduras.
  more

Aug 31, 2009, Steve Gelsi, MarketWatch
Carbon looms for Joe Six Pack and corporate America
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- With climate change legislation rising as the biggest and most complex government program since health care reform, everyone from corporate America to Joe Six Pack will be touched by changes underway in Washington and elsewhere.
Average Americans may soon be sorting through products in the grocery aisle based on their individual carbon footprints, while fretting about the performance of their exchange-traded funds tied to carbon futures.
Executive types will have to cope quickly with carbon cost, rules and benefits tied to their products and services.   more

Aug 28, 2009 -- The Carbon Tax Center
The Obama Administration and the new Congress are being called upon to address 21st Century climate realities. In a carbon-constrained world, a permanent and increasing U.S. carbon tax is essential to reduce the emissions that are driving global warming.  A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas).
A carbon tax is the most economically efficient means to convey crucial price signals and spur carbon-reducing investment and low-carbon behavior. Our spreadsheet shows how fast emissions will fall.   more

August 19, 2009 Americas Power
Scientists Boost Production Of Biofuel That May Replace Gasoline
Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles.

August 18, 2009
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
Too bad it's not in U.S. waters.
You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.   more

Aug. 17, 2009 -- Casey's Extraordinary Tech.
What GM didn't tell you about their electric car
So, how about that 230 mpg claim? We'll stop short of calling it a fabrication and instead chalk it up to a classic apples-to-oranges comparison. After all, the Volt will be powered more by coal than by oil. You see, the mileage claim is based in part on the idea that the average driver puts less than 40 miles per day on their car, and that because the Volt is plugged in overnight, it has enough juice to make it back and forth to work having barely sipped a drop of gasoline. But hop on the highway for a 230-mile ride to visit a client or take a vacation, and you're likely to use quite a bit more gas than your window sticker would have you think.   more
A great idea. Unfortunately without more nuclear energy this car may create more pollution than your old clunker!

Aug. 14, 2009
Robert Kaper, Naval Air Systems Command Public Affairs
Fuels Team Plans Super Hornet Biofuels Flight Test
Patuxent River, Md. (NNS) -- The Naval Air Systems Command fuels team is gearing up for biofuels flight tests in an F/A-18 Super Hornet at Patuxent River, Md., by next spring or summer, according to NAVAIR's fuel expert.   more

Aug. 14, 2009 -- Pravda.Ru
China Poses Serious Threat to US Interests in Africa The USA is currently the world’s major consumer of the African oil, whereas Nigeria and Angola are large exporters of black oil on the world market. China is the second largest buyer of the African oil. The trade volume between China and the African states exceeded $100 billion in 2008.   more

Aug. 6, 2009 Tom Krisher, AP -- Manufacturing.Net
GM To Build Plug-In Hybrid SUV
General Motors Co.'s product development chief said Thursday the company will introduce a plug-in rechargeable midsize crossover sport utility vehicle in its Buick lineup in 2011.
Tom Stephens, vice chairman of global product development, said the new vehicle will be about the size of a Chevrolet Equinox SUV and get double the city gas mileage of a similar-sized conventional SUV.
The current Equinox with a four-cylinder engine and front-wheel-drive gets 22 miles per gallon in the city.   more
1. Some parts of the US do not hawe enough electricity. We need more power plants!
2. If cap & tax passes, elecricity will be too expensive to use as fuel!

Aug. 3, 2009 Stephen Ohlemacher, AP
AP ENTERPRISE: Federal tax revenues plummeting
Figures in an Associated Press analysis underscore the recession's impact: Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever.
The last time the government's revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the midst of the Depression.   more
Is this the change we were promised?
We are heading for a depression and our government has no intention of preventing it!

Aug. 2, 2009 - Cory de Vera, News-Leader
Bond vows to raise questions on cap-and-trade bill in Senate
Congressman Roy Blunt doubts that other representatives were fully informed of what they were voting on when the House passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, he told a group of farmers and ranchers who gathered at the Springfield Livestock Marketing Center Saturday.
"I think there were lots of specifics in the House bill, just no one knew what they were," he told the group. "This is a bill that wasn't available until 3 a.m. the day we voted on it. ... It wasn't available."
There were hearings on a cap-and-trade bill, but the one that was voted on had a 1,000-page substitution, which, for instance, had a provision that by 2020 would impose a tariff on about every product coming into the U.S., Blunt said.
"I don't think anybody knew that was in the bill until it had been voted on."   more

Aug. 2, 2009 -- Philip Elliott, AP
2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers both sidestepped questions on Obama's intentions about taxes. Geithner said the White House was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit; Summers said Obama's proposed health care overhaul needs funding from somewhere.
"Most private forecasters — and let's use their judgment — suggest you're going to see unemployment start to come down maybe beginning in the second half of next year," Geithner said, adding those same economists predict positive growth during the second half of this year.   more
Without energy there is no growth & there are no new jobs. Taxes must go up!

July 29, 2009 LA Times - Jim Puzzanghera and David Pierson
President Obama is pushing for an agreement by December, but China resists committing to limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Chinese officials also express deep concern over the U.S. budget deficit.
Relations between the United States and China are getting cozier as their battle against the global recession has drawn them closer together. But things aren't quite so warm when it comes to some hot-button topics, particularly climate change.
U.S. and Chinese officials ended two days of high-level talks in Washington on Tuesday still at loggerheads on the issue, a top priority for President Obama. Global warming got little attention during the Bush administration.   more

July 29, 2009
Taiwan -- The Newest WTO GPA Member
Committed to be Your Ideal GPA Partner
For decades, Taiwan has provided the world markets a vast number of superior quality, highly innovative, high technology products that have satisfied millions of users. Today, Taiwan-made products not only continue to be sought after but have become a trusted choice.
As Taiwan officially becomes WTO's 41st GPA member this 15th of July, Taiwan shall embark on a new course that will give way to more strategic partnerships and better collaboration.
  more
When do we embark on a new course?

July 29, 2009 -- David Rogers
Pelosi: "I'm trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet, I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy."
A little over a month after pushing a bill that could be a disaster for the environmentl Nancy pretends that she wants to save the planet.
The carbon trading market, valued at over $30 billionis, is set to skyrocket to over $1 trillion. Insiders will make millions of dollars trading carbon.

July 28, 2009 IPS - Daphne Wysham
Why Are We Letting Polluters Regulate Themselves Instead of Letting the EPA Do Its Job?
Now, Obama is getting what he asked for: In June, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey bill. This legislation pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 2 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 -- if all goes well. But there's a lot that could go wrong.
As a tradeoff to gain support from industry for this bill, lawmakers have agreed to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from all power plants, including coal burners, under the Clean Air Act. In place of regulatory oversight, the bill allows for a free market in pollution allowances between industries. Put simply, coal-fired power plants and other large burners of energy would have a "right to pollute," which they could buy and sell with other large consumers of energy. And because these pollution rights have a cash value and would be given away for free over the next several decades, polluters will make a handsome profit from their pollution.   more
Bad for the economy! Bad for the environment!
Great for the expanding bureaucracy!
Terrible changes we don't need or want.

July 22, 2009 -- Susan Page, USA TODAY
Poll: Less faith in Obama's economic abilities
A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows the public's confidence is waning in President Obama's ability to straighten out the troubled economy.   more
47% of Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling the economy.
Mr. Obama: Americans want energy and jobs. Pleass study our site.

July 15, 2009 -- MAPI
Industrial Decline Worse Than Economic Crisis
The Federal Reserve Board reported that total industrial production declined 0.4 percent and manufacturing production fell 0.6 percent in June,” said Daniel J. Meckstroth, Chief Economist for the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI. Manufacturing production fell at a 10.5 percent annual rate in the second quarter when compared to the first quarter of this year. Unfortunately, the industrial decline is many times worse than what the general economy experienced. Economists expect the government to report later this month that GDP declined at only a 2 percent annual rate in the second quarter.   more
We need change!   Reduce government by 10% per year.
Eliminate regulations! Lower taxes!

July 15, 2009 -- Page One Media
GM Revived in Brazil -- The bankrupt U.S. automaker announces millions in investment in Brazil
Despite still being immersed in the bankruptcy process, General Motors (GM) announced today that it will unfurl a gigantic investment plan in Brazil, which will extend to 2012. A $1 billion injection of resources will be directed toward plants the company operates in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo. Production at these plants can supply demand for all of the southern region of Latin America.   more

July 14, 2009 -- Darcy Crowe Wall -- Street Journal
Venezuela's Chavez Turns Up Heat Against Obama Over Honduras
CARACAS (Dow Jones)--The crisis in Honduras is opening a deep rift between U.S. President Barack Obama and his fiery Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, four months after they met with a handshake and warm smiles.
The Venezuelan leader is drawing on the ouster of his close ally, Manuel Zelaya, from the Honduran presidency to reawaken the region's painful memories of U.S. intervention and paint the Obama Administration as complicit in the crisis.
Chavez said Honduras is a true test for Obama . . .   more
I is a true test for all Americans!     Are we going to support Socialist dictators or drill for our own oil?.

July 13, 2009 -- Rick Pedraza -- Newsmax.com
Gore: Cap-and-Trade Will Bring Global Government.
Former Vice President Al Gore told a British conference on the environment that the energy tax under the so-called cap-and-trade legislation in Congress would bring about global governance.
Speaking at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford, England, Gore said the United States is responding to the threat of global warming with the cap-and-trade legislation, Times Online reported.   more
Note: Gore is wrong as usual. Greenpeace Says Waxman-Markey Climate Bill not Science Based; Benefits Polluters. This is not an environment bill. It is a tax & steal bill.
Also: Who wants global government!

July 9, 2009    Randolpk E. Schmid, AP
El Nino conditions return to affect weather
Government scientists said Thursday that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which can affect weather around the world, has returned.
The Pacific had been in what is called a neutral state, but forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the sea surface temperature climbed to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit above normal along a narrow band in the eastern equatorial Pacific in June.   more

July 9, 2009    Marketwatch
Power showdown looms over new utility lines
One of the nation's most ambitious infrastructure programs since the Eisenhower era appears headed for a showdown as state officials vow to fight a proposal that would give Washington more say over where to place high-voltage power lines.   more

July 7, 2009    ROME, -- Reuters
"Rich" nations sought to persuade China and India on Tuesday to agree to a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at a summit of major economies in Italy later this week.
Environment ministers or senior officials from the 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF) met in Rome, trying to end deadlock over a declaration that could be a step towards a new U.N. climate pact due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi also told a news conference that "China was resisting progress on the climate".   more

July 7, 2009    John Porretto AP
Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.
Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall - taller than most 30-story buildings.   more

July 4, 2009    US looses 467,000 jobs,
Unemployment at 9.5% and rising.
Stop the blame game.
End our anti-energy, anti-growth policy.
Kill the anti-American Cap and Trade bill.
Promote energy, growth and employment.
Americans need jobs. Not excuses, promises
and giveaway plans.

July 2, 2009 -- Socialist Worker -- Chris Williams
Worse than no bill at all
Chris Williams explains how the climate bill making its way through Congress is more focused on preserving corporate profits than the environment.   more

July 2, 2009 WSJ - Alan Reynolds
Fuel Standards Are Killing GM
A higher gas tax is a better way to get green cars on the road.
General Motors can survive bankruptcy far more easily than it can survive President Barack Obama's ambitious fuel economy standards, which mandate that all new vehicles average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.   more

Experts: Carbon Tax needed and NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)
Scientists, economists and writers variously argue strongly FOR a global Carbon Tax that will directly put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and enable urgently required rapid transformation to a non-carbon economy.
They argue AGAINST carbon pricing based on a Kyoto Protocol-based Cap-and Trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
Among the people who prefer carbon-based taxes over cap-and-trade are:
Al Gore - Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate
James Hansen - Professor; Head, NASA Goddard Institute
Jonathan Leake - editor of the UK Sunday Times.
William Nordhaus - Professor; Economics, Yale University.
Jacqueline McGlade - Professor; European Environment Agency,
Daniel M. Kammen, - Professor; University of California.
Barry Brook - Professor; University of Adelaide, Australia.
Dr Robert J. Shapiro - Chair, U.S. Climate Task Force
Joseph Stiglitz - Professor; 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate
Greenpeace - leading global environment protection organization
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Chris Williams -- Socialist Worker
Worse than no bill at all
"the climate bill making its way through Congress is more focused on preserving corporate profits than the environment."
While much has been made of the bill's promise to cut 17 percent of CO2 emissions by 2020, the baseline has been changed from 1990 (when the baseline for Kyoto began) to 2005. Therefore, in the best-case scenario--i.e., if the system actually works like it's supposed to--this represents just a 4 percent reduction of U.S. emissions from 1990.   more

Random thoughts
July 8, 2009
The G8 meeting:
Rich nations sought to persuade China and India to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Who are the rich nations?
The US (rich nation) owes more money than any nation ever did and is now spending and borrowing faster then ever.
China (poor nation) is keeping the US afloat.
The rich nations are in a recession while the developing nations are prospering.
We are reaching the tipping point. Rich nations that keep cutting energy will soon be the poor nations.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a news conference that "China was resisting progress on climate".
Al Gore said: "If the United States leads, China will follow"
Obviously the Chinese are smarter and more honest than Al Gore.
Pickens calls off wind farm:
Unfortunately the windy areas of the country are not where we need electricity and we cannot feed wind power into the existing grid.
Is Pickens asking taxpayers to pay for a new grid?

Real Clear Government.
Where is the transparency we were promised?
In March of 2009 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drafted a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
March 17, 2009. Al McGartland, an EPA official, sent an e-mail message to the authors stating "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."
April 17, 2009. The EPA issued an endangerment finding, saying that global warming poses a serious threat to public health and safety. Much of the findings were based on information gathered by other agencies as well as on the IPCC Plenary reports written in 2007.
June 26, 2009. The Competitive Enterprise Institute released the draft of the "internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency."
Write or call your representatives. Demand that they read the report before the cap and trade bill is adopted.
    draft copy of report     CEI transmittal Energy Tax Facts
The Markey-Waxman "Cap-and-trade" Energy Tax bill, in the current form being considered by the House Energy and Commerce committee, would have the following catastrophic effects by 2035:
1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion annually;
2. Destroy 1,105,000 American jobs per year on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs;
3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation;
4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent;
5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent;
6. Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500 annually; and
7. Increase inflation-adjusted federal debt by 26 percent, or $29,150 additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.
Source: Heritage Foundation
May 5, 2009
Please tax us!
According to the latest energy bill (H.R.2454) the government intends to set up a system to control carbon emission through "Cap and trade".
Each year the government would issue your company (you) a permit to emit a fixed amount of carbon. You will not be allowed to exceed your permitted amount. If you reduce the amount of carbon you emit you will be allowed to sell the excess allowance you have received. If exceed your allowance, you will be able to buy an additional allowance from the companies who have cut down their emission. You will also be able to buy allowances from companies that specialize in carbon reduction.
A government department will measure and track your carbon emission as well as control your allowances all trades.
An alternative to "cap and trade" is the carbon tax. You are taxed on the amount of carbon you emit. The government would still have to measure the pollution produced and tax accordingly.
Please make it simple and clear! Tax all fuels. If we use more fuel we emit more carbon and pay more. If we become more efficient we use less fuel and pay less, The system is already in place. You (The government) can start collecting the additional tax almost immediately and we (the taxpayers) will see where the money is spent.
April 27, 2009
GM (Government Motors) to cut 21,000 US factory jobs, shed Pontiac. The plan, which includes an offer to swap roughly $27 billion in bond debt for GM stock, would leave current shareholders holding just 1 percent of the century-old company, which is fighting for its life in the worst auto sales climate in 27 years. see Plan
Without energy there can be no industry.
Union leadership turned against energy and helped kill the automobile industry. We feel sorry for the thousands of great workers who are loosing their jobs and for the UAW which is loosing its industrial base.

The $2 trillion global warming tax
April 24, 2009 - Gore on climate: "take action to reduce greenhouse gases"
97% of the greenhouse gases is water vapor!! Al Gore is not planing to reducing water vapor!
Newt Gingrich: "This bill is an energy tax,"
Rep. John Dingell, Micigan: "is not convinced the bill will protect U.S. jobs especially if China is not forced to take similar actions.
Al Gore: "If the United States leads, China will follow," That is a lie! China said they would not reduce emissions.
Ralph Nader: "China will never agree to an emissions cap".     source
April 22, 2009
"The American people are ready to be part of a mission," Obama said in a speech in the Midwestern state of Iowa.
Really? Are they ready for a Carbon Tax plus a World Tax?
The British charity Oxfam said Wednesday that if the G8 failed to take the lead in the fight against global warming it would endanger hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
"We need governments to raise their game," said Oxfam International Executive Director Jeremy Hobbs, calling on wealthy countries to provide at least 50 billion dollars (38.5 billion euros) a year to help developing countries adapt to unavoidable climate change.     see: mission
April 23, 2007 to April 19, 2008
EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and the way you live under the Clean Air Act..
Opinion of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to the original decision (April 2007)
I believe the ANPR demonstrates the Clean Air Act, an outdated law originally enacted to control regional pollutants that cause direct health effects, is ill-suited for the task of regulating global greenhouse gases. Based on the analysis to date, pursuing this course of action would inevitably result in a very complicated, time-consuming and, likely, convoluted set of regulations. These rules would largely pre-empt or overlay existing programs that help control greenhouse gas emissions and would be relatively ineffective at reducing greenhouse gas concentrations given the potentially damaging effect on jobs and the U.S. economy.
EPA's analyses leading up to this ANPR have increasingly raised questions of such importance that the scope of the agency's task has continued to expand. For instance, it has become clear that if EPA were to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act, then regulation of smaller stationary sources that also emit GHGs - such as apartment buildings, large homes, schools, and hospitals - could also be triggered. One point is clear: the potential regulation of greenhouse gases under any portion of the Clean Air Act could result in an unprecedented expansion of EPA authority that would have a profound effect on virtually every sector of the economy and touch every household in the land. EPA document: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act
Massachusets vs EPA
Calling global warming .the most pressing environmental challenge of our time, the following groups of States, local governments, and private organizations, alleged that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) abdicated its responsibility to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases:
California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
District of Columbia, American Samoa, New York City, and Baltimore.
Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Advocates, Environmental Defense, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, International Center for Technology Assessment, National Environmental Trust, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, and U. S. Public Interest Research Group. Massachusets vs EPA
Opinions of the CO2 Litigation Group
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas: Socialist Party of America presidential candidate
March 2009
DOE: " will put American ingenuity and America's manufacturers to work producing next generation Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles and the advanced battery components that will make these vehicles run. "
But:     Where do we get the electricity from? Windmills will not drive our factories, offices, homes, trucks and cars!
February 2009
No Energy = No Jobs = No Recovery
•   Wind and solar are expensive sources of power. In addition, they require a costly new power grid and backup generators.
•   Production of bio-fuels consumes energy.
•   Coal power is cheap but clean coal plants are 50% less efficient. China is the largest consumer of coal in the world and are building, on average, one coal-fired power plant per week. It has one clean coal plant.
•   Nuclear power is clean and proven. China has seven nuclear power reactors under construction, and ten more about to start construction. All to be operational in 10 years. The US has 1 reactor under construction. If we want to compete with China and reduce our dependence on oil, we must have nuclear power.
•   Our climate has changed and will continue to change. Water vapor is a significant greenhouse gas. Carbon is not. A cap (tax) on carbon emission would be an impossible burden on industry and in turn on all consumers.
President Obama - February 2009
Track the recovery money.
A new government site promises: "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be carried out with full transparency and accountability -- and Recovery.gov is the centerpiece of that effort. In a short video, President Obama describes the site and talks about how you'll be able to track the Recovery Act's progress every step of the way.     recovery.gov
Al Gore - November 9, 2008
"Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." . . . . Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds - and many feel that global oil production is at or near its peak."
Al Gore served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985, the U. S. Senate from 1985 to 1993 and as Vice President from 1993 to 2001. He did nothing about energy for 24 years!
Promise them what they want and they will vote for you.
Student groups and environmentalists want a green economy. They are determined to "pull our nation out of its fossil fuel addiction, and declaring an end to coal and nuclear development"
Exactly what Obama promised,
Time to stop playing games.
With banks failing and billions spent on saving the economy we don't have time or money to test and subsidize windmills and other unproven forms of energy. The ethanol program proved to be an expensive failure. We can and should provide tax breaks as we did with other energy providers.
We must conserve like never before.
We have to drill for oil and gas here and as we do drastically reduce our imports. We cannot afford to continue sending 700 billion dollars and millions of jobs overseas.
We have to build safe and reliable nuclear power plants now. France can do it and so can we.
We must re-examine global warming. We have to be sure that reducing carbon will make a difference before we devote trillions of dollars and fail to halt climate change.
Creating 5 million green jobs sounds good and exporting green technology is a great idea but when you export the technology the jobs go with it.
For over thirty years Democrats have stopped every attempt to increase domestic energy production. It's time to get to work. Economics 101:   Public Companies
Well managed:   Tax them to death.
Mis-managed:   Bail them out.
Lobbyists:
"A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause"
(American Heritage® Dictionary)
What are the most expensive causes today and who are their lobbyists?
Gore  --  cause: Global Warming
Pickens  --  cause: Wind & Gas Power
Both addressed the Senate for their cause.
The Platform of the American People
Newt Gingrich
At American Solutions, we spent six months conducting nationwide workshops, telephone town halls, and six national surveys to understand the key concerns of the American People.
The Platform of the American People is a solutions-oriented agenda that has overwhelming support of a majority of Americans, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
The Blueprint for Change
Barack Obama’s Plan for America
Foreign Oil - America’s 20-million-barrel-a-day oil habit costs our economy $1.4 billion a day, and $500 billion in 2006 alone. Every single hour, we spend $41 million on foreign oil. *
Climate Change - As a result of climate change, glaciers are melting faster; the polar ice caps are shrinking; trees are blooming earlier; more people are dying in heat waves; species are migrating, and eventually many will become extinct. **
* Thanks to Democrats who killed all energy plans since 1977. more
** We did not cause climate change and we will not stop it. more
Invest in Global Warming
Global warming is a multi billion dollar "industry"(aka scam). Investors led by Gore and Pickens are getting ready to make billions. Print & sell "carbon certificates". Collect subsidies. Reduce your taxes. Get an early start. Politicians have aleady in the green "industry"
Two investment groups headed or working with Al Gore are bound to spearhead the "industry"
Generation Investment Management and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)
Disclosure: We have not invested in these companies
Oil and Security
During 2006 the United States consumed 20.7 million barrels (20.7 MMbd) of petroleum products per day.
At the same time the US produced about 5.1 million barrels per day (5.1 MMbd) and imported about 15.6 million barrels per day (15.6 MMbd) Petroleum products were imported from:
Canada - 17.2%
Mexico - 12.4%
Saudi Arabia - 10.7%
Venezuela - 10.4%
Nigeria - 8.1%
To secure our oil supply we have to reduce imports by about 50% or close to 8 million barrels per day.
There is no alternate fuel for airplanes, trucks and factories. We will be uing some oil for decades. We can and must use our own!
(data from: http://www.eia.doe.gov/)

Oil, Gas, Wind & T. Boone Pickens
Mr. T. Boone Pickens is the founder and Chairman of BP Capital. A stockholder in XTO Energy. A stockholder of Interoil. Owner of Mesa Power LP.
He is Big Oil, Big Gas and about to become Big Wind. But, he wants taxpayers to spend billions of dollars for a new electric grid for his part time electric power.         See details

to: Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
The United States has sufficient natural resources within its boundaries to supply all of the energy needs of the country.
75 to 81% of the people want to use all available resources.
For the sake of the people of the United States please put your personal and political agenda aside and consider their jobs and their security. Stop blocking the use of these resources.

End of Global Warming?
David Evans, July 18, 2008
1. The greenhouse signature is missing.
2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None.
3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980
4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.
Dr David Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005, building the carbon accounting model that Australia uses to track carbon in its biosphere for the purposes of the Kyoto Protocol. He is a mathematician and engineer, with six university degrees including a PhD from Stanford University.

Global Warming
and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
Jun 12, 2008. John Coleman,
founder of the Weather Channel
There is no significant man made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed. But mankind's activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces.





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