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Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy
Filed under Climate, Energy, Environmentalism, Science
Being a Leftist means …
… never having to trouble your little grey cells with facts.
Also, Leftists tried to suppress study results because they show that fracking is “a safe source of jobs, prosperity and low-cost energy.” They find this result “disappointing.” That says a lot about the Left, no?
“Geologists at the University of Cincinnati just wrapped up a three-year investigation of hydraulic fracturing and its impact on local water supplies.
“The result? There’s no evidence—zero, zilch, nada—that fracking contaminates drinking water. Researchers hoped to keep these findings secret.
“Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program deliberately hide its work? Because, as lead researcher Amy Townsend-Small explained, ‘our funders, the groups that had given us funding in the past, were a little disappointed in our results. They feel that fracking is scary and so they were hoping our data could point to a reason to ban it’.”
Surprisingly, this story made it into Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/researchers-put-fracking-politics-science-451400
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Filed under Energy, Environmentalism, Fracking
It’s not a question of IF.
It’s only a question of WHEN.
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Ted Cruz: Five for Freedom Plan
“The total federal debt currently stands at $18.6 trillion, larger than our entire economy. That is up 75 percent since President Obama took office, and by the end of his tenure, he is expected to have added almost as much to the national debt as all past presidents combined. The federal government spent $3.5 trillion in fiscal year 2014, and ran a deficit of $483 billion. Sadly, even under a Republican Congress, the recent budget deal will add another $80 billion in spending over two years. The current and projected rates of government growth are unsustainable, irresponsible, and constitutionally indefensible.” ~Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz says that, if he is elected, he will work to eliminate wasteful government agencies, bureaus and commission. In particular, he wants to get rid of these five cabinet agencies:
- Internal Revenue Service – to dramatically simplify the tax code and enable everyone to fill out their taxes on a postcard or smartphone app.
- Department of Education – to return education to those who know our students best: parents, teachers, local communities, and states. And to block-grant education funding to the states.
- Department of Energy – to cut off the Washington cartel, stop picking winners and losers, and unleash the energy renaissance.
- Department of Commerce – to close the “congressional cookie jar” and promote free enterprise and free trade for every business.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development – to offer real solutions that lift people out of hardship, rather than trapping families in a cycle of poverty, and to empower hurting Americans by reforming most of the remaining programs, such as Section 8 housing.
Cruz says he will NOT do this by executive action, like Obama’s been doing to force his will on us. He will do it legally, constitutionally, by working with Congress.
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Keystone and Obama’s priorities
Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) posted this on his Facebook:
A majority of Americans and a bipartisan majority of Congress agreed that the Keystone pipeline will create jobs and improve our energy security. It is disappointing yet predictable that President Obama has again put his extreme liberal agenda ahead of good policy.
The administration says that Congress rushed their decision passing legislation to approve the pipeline. It has been 2,340 days since the administration began their environmental review. In the meantime Apple has developed and released five new iPhones, Lebron James has gone from Cleveland to win two championships in Miami then returned to Cleveland, and the San Francisco Giants have won the World Series three times.
What we do know is that the Keystone pipeline would create more than 40,000 jobs and contribute to our energy security. After six years it is time to make a decision.
As always, actions speak louder than words, and despite rhetoric from President Obama on bipartisanship and compromise, his actions show that the liberal special interests of environmental extremists are his priority, not creating jobs or protecting our energy security.
Filed under Barack Obama, Energy, Environmentalism, Keystone Pipeline, U.S. Congress
The failure of Spain’s “green” energy experiment
Spain’s aggressive government support for renewable energy caused utility prices to skyrocket. While costs for energy and everything that uses energy rose sharply, jobs disappeared. With more people needing welfare and fewer producers paying taxes, the Spanish government was forced to admit in 2012 that it simply cannot afford to continue subsidizing “green” energy.
Obama told us to “look to Spain.” I couldn’t agree more.
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/28/spains-green-economy-skyrocketing-power-prices-and-higher-co2-emissions/
Report @ http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Renewables-in-Spain.pdf
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Filed under Energy, Environmentalism, Unemployment
Solar Thermal Energy: Not cheap and definitely not “green”
Solar thermal power plants like the one in California’s Mojave desert heat the air to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit … enough to fry birds flying past. Workers at the plants call the smoking birds ‘streamers’ for the smoke plume that comes from them after they ignite in midair.
Federal investigators visiting the Mojave facility witnessed bird burning roughly one every two minutes. The Obama administration doesn’t care any more about birds than it does about … well, a lot of stuff. They granted the facility a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee because, you know, solar energy doesn’t actually pay for itself.
And solar isn’t the only allegedly “green” technology killing fellow inhabitants of our beautiful planet. The Wildlife Society says wind farms are slicing and dicing 573,000 birds and 888,000 bats per year.
Meanwhile, the same Democrats who pimp for wind and solar shut off the water to the farms of central California because of some fish that allegedly needed saving. Yeah, that makes sense. NOT.
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Dead-Bird ‘Steamers’ at a California Solar Plant By Jillian Kay Melchior – Aug 19, 2014
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385723/dead-bird-steamers-california-solar-plant-jillian-kay-melchior
Solar Thermal Electric Generation Still Not Cheap, Not Green – July 15, 2014
http://www.freeelectricpower.net/solar-thermal-electric-generation-still-not-cheap-not-green/
Filed under Energy, Environmentalism, Government Waste
MUST WATCH VIDEO for anyone interested in the fracking debate
“Expose: Hollywood’s War on US Energy”
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas expose the truth about the dark funding behind Hollywood’s anti-fracking messaging machine.
An undercover journalist from Project Veritas posed as a member of a Middle Eastern oil dynasty and offered $9 million to American filmmakers to fund an anti-fracking movie for the express purpose of protecting Middle East billionaires from competition from American energy producers.
Ed Begley Jr., Mariel Hemingway and Josh and Rebecca Tickell all agree to take the money and hide the source of funds.
Sample Dialogue:
“Muhammad”: “My client’s interest is to end American energy independence; your interest is to end fracking. And you guys understand that?”
Josh Tickell: “Correct. Yes, super clear. We would never tell about where the funding is coming from. That would be really awkward for us. We’re confident that we can keep this zip locked, you know tight, air-tight forever. If we don’t protect who is kind of funding this thing, if we have to disclose that or that becomes a necessary part of it, the whole enterprise will not work. Money to us doesn’t have a moral vibration.”
Rebecca Tickell explains in detail how their connection to MoveOn.org, which is sponsored by the anti-American Progressive George Soros. She also named groups they know that would be appalled by Middle Eastern Big Oil funding. She explains how she and Josh would happily CON these groups to sign on and sponsor the film WITHOUT knowing where it’s funding originated.
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- The raw video can be found at http://Youtube.com/VeritasVisuals
- Stay up to date on who responds by following us on Facebook at http://Facebook.com/ProjectVeritas and at Twitter @Project_Veritas.
- Support Project Veritas’ investigations at http://ProjectVeritas.com/donate
- Project Veritas is non-partisan and does not advocate for political candidates or parties. The purpose of Project Veritas’ investigations is to expose waste, fraud, dishonesty and self-dealing.
- H/t Pistol Pete
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Filed under Energy, Fracking, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas
Lessons from the Fracking Debate
This is a fantastic video that is worth every minute.
Here’s a screenshot to whet your appetite.
November 15, 2013: Ann McElhinney, Journalist & Filmmaker [56:00]
Delivered at Hillsdale College’s Free Market Forum, San Diego, California
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Filed under Climate, Energy, Environmentalism, Fracking
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