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President Obama Sure Does Love the Job Killing EPA

January 11, 2012
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President Obama sure does love the job killing EPA. So what if the agency’s regulations will cause job losses and brownouts! I guess he agrees with Lisa Jackson that the EPA is there to level the playing field on energy production. What else is one to think after he appeared at the agency to...

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Ethanol Plant Sold, Taxpayers Out $65 Million

January 5, 2012
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Here we have the EPA doing everything they can to put coal plants out of business while “green energy” companies are going belly up all on their own, even after bureaucrats and politicians have given them billions in taxpayer subsidies. An ethanol plant in Georgia was just sold with a taxpayer loss of $65...

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EPA’s War On Coal Continues

January 5, 2012
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The only energy Obama and the folks at the EPA like is the kind that’s expensive, unreliable and subsidized by taxpayers. The only kinds of jobs they like are union jobs financed by the taxpayers. So it’s no wonder that the EPA’s war on the coal industry continues. The latest battle will be coming...

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Should We Prepare for $5 Per Gallon Gas?

January 3, 2012
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Should we prepare ourselves for $5 per gallon gas prices? According to some analysts we should. Five dollars a gallon for gas? Analysts say it could happen this year. … Just this weekend, the president signed new sanctions against the country of Iran. Now, Iran is firing back with a threat that could send...

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EPA’s Utility MACT Rule Will Cost Jobs, Increase Energy Costs, and Impact Reliability

December 22, 2011
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Yesterday EPA administrator Lisa Jackson released the Utility MACT rule that’s quite likely to put coal plants out of business. According to The Wall Street Journal, Jackson’s “historic” rule could very well be the most expensive regulation in the agency’s history. No wonder she released it a few days before Christmas when people are...

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Light Bulb Ban Suspended?

December 15, 2011
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Watts Up with That posted a short update on the light bulb ban indicating it was suspended in the budget deal reached tonight. I did a search, and sure enough, The Hill confirms it. Omnibus spending legislation greenlighted by House and Senate negotiators Thursday night blocks Energy Department light bulb efficiency standards that have come under...

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My Light Bulb Interview

December 14, 2011
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My mini-obsession with the ban of the incandescent light bulb caught the attention of The Wall Street Journal, and I was interviewed by Anne Kadet for the January issue of Smart Money Magazine. Karen Beseth is all about energy conservation. She shuts off the lights when leaving the room and sets the thermostat at...

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UN Orders 10 Minute Snap Decision to Ensnare Nations in Greenhouse Gas Swindle

December 11, 2011
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The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall. **** UN Orders 10 Minute Snap Decision to Ensnare Nations in Greenhouse Gas Swindle The UN has announced their latest resolution in an obvious attempt to fleece industrial nations of money to be redistributed to third world countries for greenhouse education and to improve environmental...

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Obama Claims Payroll Tax Cut and Unemployment Benefits Better for Economy than Keystone XL Project

December 8, 2011
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a project that requires no taxpayer funding and would create at least 20,000 jobs. There’s no telling how many indirect jobs the project would create, but if President Obama and his environmental fundamentalist friends have their way we’ll never know. His administration has put approval for the shovel-ready project...

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Good Bye to the Light Bulb (Unless You Stock Up Now!)

December 3, 2011
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Here’s the video tribute to the incandescent light bulb by Reason TV‘s Remy. We’ll be singing this to our 100 watt bulbs in just a few weeks, and all of them by 2014. But, it’s not to late to stock up! (Re-post) Republicans in the House half-heartedly tried to get the ban on incandescent...

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The Reliability of the Power Grid is at Stake Thanks to Obama’s EPA

November 29, 2011
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When the rolling blackouts begin, don’t say you weren’t warned, and don’t let the Democrats get away with the “unintended consequences” BS they fall back on when their disastrous policies come to fruition. According to Energy Biz, the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. (MISO) is sounding the alarm on what the new EPA regulations...

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Video: EPA Head Lisa Jackson on Leveling the Energy Playing Field

November 28, 2011
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In a follow up to my post last week on EPA administrator Lisa Jackson leveling the energy playing field, here’s the video. The Chamber Post also weighed in: EPA’s attack on coal-fired power plants threaten regional power grids like the one in the Midwest: The operator of the Midwest power grid estimates that coal-fired power plants...

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Don’t Forget to Stock Up on Light Bulbs!

November 28, 2011
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Republicans in the House half-heartedly tried to get the ban on incandescent light bulbs repealed, or at least delayed, but Democrats controlling the Senate would have none of it. They want you using the expensive fluorescent bulbs that require a hazmat suit if you break one. The Washington Times reminds us that we only have a...

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Where the Jobs Are

November 26, 2011
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Guess who’s creating jobs in this lousy economy? Here’s a hint, it isn’t the “green” companies President Obama has been funneling our money into. No, it’s the oil and gas industry, if only the government would get out of their way, imagine how many more jobs they would create? While Washington has tried to...

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