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.
Category Archives: Environmentalism
Wind power isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Just like the global warming argument, these wind turbines have fallen on their faces. Here are just the four that have come crashing down during the past MONTH.
The Scottish turbine above was sited on the same platform as a previously failed tower.
Sources:
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/04/like-the-global-warming-argument-260-foot-wind-turbine-collapses-pics/
- http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/
- http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Anger-as-turbine-crashes-to-earth-for-second-time-19122014.htm
- http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/100m-turbine-collapse-not-bolts-this-time-weld-failure-in-the-main-tower/
- http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/Wind-turbine-collapses-in-Haskell-County/30258082
- http://ulsterherald.com/2015/01/03/wind-turbine-collapses-near-fintona/
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Climate Facts
Earth’s sea ice expanded to record levels as 2014 ended. (Note to alarmists: God is in charge of the climate, not you.)
NASA discovers that the excess carbon dioxide we’re pumping into the atmosphere is making the tropical rainforests grow faster.
Sources:
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2891432/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-help-tropical-rainforests-grow-faster-Study-shows-trees-absorb-greenhouse-gas-expected.html
- http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/12/30/global-sea-ice-breaks-all-time-record-high-antarctic-sea-ice-also-breaks-all-time-record-high/
Filed under Climate, Environmentalism, NASA
FAIL: Environmental Alarmist Predictions
ALARM: Two decades ago, the United Nations came up with several models that all predicted that by 2015, the Earth would have warmed by at least a degree Fahrenheit.
REALITY: In that time period, there has been virtually no warming at all. This has not deterred alarmists; they are oh-so-confident that the warming will pick up again REALLY SOON!
ALARM: A guide on the Pennsylvania EPA website says the planet’s oil reserves will likely be all used up by 2015.
REALITY: Because of technological innovations, the amount of our oil reserves is now double what it was two decades ago.
ALARM: A 2012 report by the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge predicted that arctic sea ice would be completely gone before 2020 and possibly as early as 2015.
REALITY: The ice reached its lowest point in 2014, when it covered about 1.7 million square miles — an area nearly half the size of the United States. Since then, it has increased.
ALARM: In the 1980s, Dr. John Holdren predicted that carbon dioxide induced climate change “could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.” Holdren, who currently serves as the White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, said he does not view that statement as having been a “prediction” or “forecast” per se. Plus, you know, he’s got five more years left, so we NEEEEEEED to follow through on “the sensible measures in the President’s Climate Action Plan,” by which he means regulate our industries into oblivion.
REALITY: It’s tough to know how these people actually feel about the fact that there has been no climate catastrophe to kill off a billion people. They say they don’t want anything that bad to happen (so we need to regulate Regulate REGULATE), but they also say that the human species is a plague on the planet and we need to reduce Reduce REDUCE our population drastically (so YES PLEASE to enthusiastic support for voluntary and forced birth control, abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and denial of health care for humans who are defective, sick, old, expensive or just a nuisance to the Powers That Be).
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/12/31/botched-environmental-predictions-for-2015/
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Anti-Fracking protests being funded by Russian oil company
Those of us who have seen FrackNation already knew that Big Oil was funding the anti-fracking whack-jobs who refuse to look at decades of successful fracking wells and test data. But wow … to have this factoid turn up in the leftie New York Times?! Shocking!
“Before stepping down in September as NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, ‘Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called nongovernmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas’.”
The Russians deny it, of course, but I’m not impressed.
“Russian news media, she added, were curiously active in covering and fueling opposition to fracking in Pungesti. RT, a state-run Russian TV news channel aimed at foreign audiences, provided blanket coverage of the protests and carried warnings that villagers, along with their crops and animals, would perish from poisoned water.”
“Lessons from the Debate over Fracking”
Source:
Filed under Environmentalism, Fracking
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.
Sources:
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.
Sources:
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
Left vs Right in Simple Terms
Last month at the left-wingnuts’ Netroots conference, Sen. Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren (D-MA) issued Eleven Progressive Commandments.
This week, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) issued the Conservative Response.
1. Elizabeth Warren: “We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it.”
Sarah Palin’s response: “We believe that Washington, D.C. needs to take less of our money. It needs more scrutiny, fewer bureaucrats, and it needs a reminder of the principles laid down in the Constitution that our leaders swear to defend. Furthermore, we believe crony capitalism is infecting both sides of the aisle in D.C. We’re working really hard to root it out of our party. Senator Warren, what are you doing to root it out of yours?”
2. Warren: “We believe in science, and that means that we have a responsibility to protect this Earth.”
Palin’s response: “We believe in science and God’s magnificent creation overflowing with natural resources. That means we have a responsibility to honor Him by protecting the earth as we develop our resources in an environmentally sound way for mankind’s use.”
3. Warren: “We believe that the Internet shouldn’t be rigged to benefit big corporations, and that means real net neutrality.”
Palin’s response: “We believe the Internet shouldn’t be censored by the world’s tyrants. That means President Obama should reverse his disastrous decision to hand over control of Internet domain names to the U.N., where it will come under the thumb of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China.”
4. Warren: “We believe that no one should work full-time and still live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage.”
Palin’s response: “We believe in lifting Americans out of poverty and into sustainable jobs. That means government needs to butt out of employer-employee pay issues. And quit over-regulating business and increasing taxes. It drives up operating costs — that’s what affects wages.”
5. Warren: “We believe that fast-food workers deserve a livable wage, and that means that when they take to the picket line, we are proud to fight alongside them.”
Palin’s response: “We believe … wait, I thought fast food joints … don’t you guys think that they are of the devil or something? Liberals, I thought you wanted to send those evil employees who would dare work at a fast food joint to purgatory or something until they all go vegan?! Wages and picket lines, I dunno, they’re not often discussed in purgatory, are they?
“We believe in America where minimum-wage jobs are not lifetime gigs. They are stepping stones to a good job with sustainable wages. It teaches work ethic. We believe in helping Americans climb the economic ladder, not get stuck on the first rung. A strong economy with good-paying jobs comes from free enterprise, not from a top-down, bloated, big-government, command-and-control economy.”
6. Warren: “We believe that students are entitled to get an education without being crushed by debt.”
Palin’s response: “We believe that students learn to not make decisions that result in a lot of debt. And we believe that schools need to be more accountable for the insane increase in tuition. … It’s no accident, Elizabeth, that the rise in tuition corresponds with the rise in government intervention. More government isn’t the answer.”
7. Warren: “We believe that after a lifetime of work, people are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting Social Security, Medicare, and pensions.”
Palin’s response: “We believe a pension is a promise. It must be honored. We do that by using common sense and prioritizing budgets that once and for all will end waste and fraud and the crony capitalism and the stupid political decisions that are bankrupting our nation. We believe that in order to keep faith with future generations and fulfill our current commitments to our seniors, we must enact sensible entitlement reform.”
8. Warren: “We believe — I can’t believe I have to say this in 2014 — we believe in equal pay for equal work.”
Palin’s response: “We believe — I can’t believe I have to say this in 2014 — we believe in equal pay for equal work. And President Barack Obama should abandon his hypocritical practice of paying women less than men in his campaigns, in his administration, and in the White House.”
9. Warren: “We believe that equal means equal, and that’s true in marriage, it’s true in the workplace, it’s true in all of America.”
Palin’s response: “We believe that all men and women are created equal. They claim that we are not tolerant? Well, we believe that tolerance goes both ways. That means respecting people’s right to disagree with you, instead of trying to intimidate or silence us. We believe the answer to free speech that you find offensive is more free speech, not less.”
10. Warren: “We believe that immigration has made this country strong and vibrant, and that means reform.”
Palin’s response: “We believe that legal immigration helped make this country strong and vibrant. And that means welcoming law-abiding, hard-working immigrants who wish to come here legally and pledge their allegiance to the United States of America. Furthermore, we believe, as none other than Cesar Chavez believed, that illegal immigration hurts the country. It unfairly hurts working-class Americans of all races, all backgrounds who are seeking good-paying jobs, security for their families.”
11. Warren: “And we believe that corporations are not people, that women have a right to their bodies. We will overturn Hobby Lobby and we will fight for it. We will fight for it!”
Palin’s response: “We believe women have a right to their bodies, just as babies have a right to their living, breathing bodies nestled in a mother’s womb. And anyone who wants contraception, more power to you. Continue to freely buy any kind you want, no one is stopping you. We’ll fight for the right of private businesses, including Hobby Lobby, to work with you to figure out health-care coverage themselves in any way the owners of these businesses (that they built themselves) want to, knowing that government intervention just always screws everything up.
“Furthermore, we believe that religious liberty is enshrined in our Constitution, remember? The government has no right to coerce people to violate their religious beliefs. And if they try to take any of our Constitutional rights away, we will fight for them.”
Palin had “one final thought for Sen. Warren and her would-be progressive populists.”
“We conservatives believe, as Ronald Reagan said, that you can’t be for big taxes, big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. We stand with the little guy, who is being bullied and beaten down by the progressive left’s failed policies of yours, Elizabeth Warren. We stand for free men and free markets — the twin ideals that made this nation strong, peaceful, and prosperous. We say, God Bless America. We hope you say the same, Senator Warren.”
Sources:
Fauxcahontas
http://humanevents.com/2012/09/04/native-american-delegates-ask-fauxcahontas-to-explain-herself/
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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