President Obama’s anti-coal policies are about to hit millions of Americans in the wallet. Get ready for the great, big Obama-bump in your electric bill. Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012. Coal-fired power plants are now generating just...
President Obama is gearing up for yet another debt ceiling debacle; and his solution is to raise taxes on the rich, even though he knows there aren’t enough wealthy people in America to cover the budget deficit, let alone pay off the debt we already have. If he really wanted to do something about...
Alert the envrionmentalists! The Obama administration is going to allow the mass killing of bald eagles so that renewable energy can be expanded. The Foundry reported the news last week, but I haven’t read anything about this in my local newspaper. Gee, I wonder why. A draft regulation first filed in April would allow...
Last week GAO auditor Anu Mittal appeared before Congress and testified that a shale formation out west contains trillions of gallons of recoverable oil. Much of it is underneath federal lands. According to her testimony, the recoverable oil is equivalent to the the oils reserves of the entire world. You would think this would...
People in the Obama administration must have noticed that the president isn’t too popular in coal states lately. So now they’re trying to make it look like they aren’t trying their best to put the industry out of business and the people it employs out of work. They just changed their website to include...
One doesn’t even have to go looking for examples of the government wasting taxpayer money, there are so many. Like this one – a Canadian-owned solar plant in Nevada is set to receive up to $50 million in stimulus and it will employe 2 – yes 2 – full time employees. To make matters...
States that impose renewable fuel mandates on electric utilities cause consumers in those states to pay upwards of thirty percent more for electricity than consumers in states without the mandates. Worse yet, we’re all subsidizing renewable fuels like wind and solar with our tax dollars. A 2012 study by the Manhattan Institute compares states...
Wind energy is supposed to be one of the magic bullets that will protect us all from global warming. That’s why the federal government has “invested” so much of our money on windmills. Well, oops! A new study shows that temperatures increase in the areas around wind farms. New research finds that wind farms...
President Obama was all fired up this week about green energy. Let’s hope he wasn’t talking to the people of Minnesota who were fleeced out of millions of dollars due to green energy mandates. Taxpayers in Minnesota ended up paying $70 million more than they needed to for electricity in 2011 because of “green” energy mandates,...
The only time President Obama doesn’t seem like a dour old stick in the mud is when he’s talking about spending more of our money. He’s especially animated when it comes to green energy. At a recent campaign stop he was all fired up. “That’s what we’re fighting for. We need to be supporting...
A vote is scheduled in the House today on a bill that will fund transportation programs through September. House Republicans again included language mandating federal approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Of course, President Obama said he will veto the bill if it includes the Keystone provision. It would take permitting of the proposed...
Every time I see another story of President Obama’s green energy investment failures I think to myself “Didn’t I already cover that one?” There are so many, it’s really difficult to keep up. It’s late, and I’m tired, but just in case I missed the latest failure, be sure to check it out. Oh,...
American Crossroads put out the following radio ad featuring United Mine Workers of America union boss Cecil Roberts slamming the Obama administration for their war on coal, and what it will do to the jobs and retirements of so many coal industry workers. I hope they knew before they ran the ad that Roberts...
President Obama’s campaign is all about class warfare. He wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, even though it will do nothing to help the economy. He tells us he’s the one looking out for the poor and middle class, yet his policies are keeping people unemployed while driving up the cost of living....
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