Windmills!
The backbone of the Obama energy plan, and something of a fetish to him:
Because the windmill industry is politically correct, it gets a pass on the wholesale slaughter of Eagles and other migratory birds:
AP VIDEO: Wind turbines injure and kill protected birds, but the Obama administration does not prosecute: apne.ws/18HY43p -BW
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Israel now is pumping natural gas from one of the enormous offshore fields which will transform Israel into an energy-independent nation and a global energy powerhouse:
Natural gas from the offshore Tamar field was pumped to Israeli shores for the...
In College Insurrection, I recently covered a story showing that North Dakota universities were about the only higher education institutions in the country expecting increased funding. These revenues are courtesy of the state’s recent oil boom.
This is one example of how oil shale may prove to be more valuable to this...
and with all the mockery I have heaped on Obama and windmills, I could not have dreamed up this headline and story, Wind farms may have warming effect – research:
Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a...
From reader Tim, who writes:
Was on pump in Wilmington NC earlier this week.
Looks like
No new oil from anwr, east coast, the gulf. No pipeline from Canada
$4 gal
Thanks Obama voters
I can’t imagine that signs like that aren’t popping up all across America.
Looks like Tim is right, these are popping up all over the country:
Prompted by social media, some people are now affixing Post-It notes to the gas pump when they fill up, with messages like this one reminding anyone who reads it just how much the cost of gasoline has skyrocketed since Obama became president.
It remains to be seen if that effort will truly gather steam. But if it does, it could be a game-changer in the campaign.
Unlike the astroturfing Media Matters Twitterers who make a small number of people seem like a mass movement because they can hit a “send” button all day long, this is one-at-a-time, hand-to-pump combat.
Here’s some good advice:
Have fun. Put a sharpie and some Post It notes in your car and go to town.
Update 3-29-2012: Reader Barbara sends along the following image of a Post-It she places on store shelves and “on the pump every time I gas up”:
Please make more of these sort of arrogant and dismissive speeches.
It helps motivate and bring out the base. Our base:
Update: The Eagle has landed, er, pulled into the driveway, and this low blow on Rutherford B. Hayes has him agitated:
The quote cited by Obama does exist on the Internet, but we would...
I’m all in favor of wind energy. If it works, do it. But the notion that windmills will be anything more than a small aspect of electricity production is blowing smoke.
I previously highlighted the problem in Britain, where wind turbine owners are paid not to produce electricity, Our Future? Wind Farms...
Algae is just alright with me,
Algae is just alright, oh yeah.
I don’t care what they may say,
Algae is just alright, oh yeah.
Via Kurt Schlichter:
Newt on the Mark Levin show yesterday:
(h/t Hope Change in Tip Line)
Obama on our energy future:
“We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae — you’ve got a bunch of algae...
Newt has released a 28 minute video discussing energy independence. (h/t numerous readers)
Via Human Events, the video will be broadcast in key markets, in its entirety. Also, it was done entirely from memory, without aid of notes or a teleprompter.
Big question: Will people watch a 28 minute video? Or is it enough...
So Obama is going to kill the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, pending apparently another route being drawn up. Which means that he has killed it dead, because any route is going to be met with objection and delay.
Instead, let’s build more of the bird blenders.
Hey union guys hoping for some...
Windmills are a centerpiece of Obama’s energy plans for the nation.
We’ve already documented how wind power subsidies take from the windless to give to the winded, and some problems when the wind blows too much.
Here’s another, from Britain, regarding noise pollution:
Wind turbines are being turned off during high winds because they are too...
Much like windmills, Obama’s energy plans for the country turn on “green” energy like LED lighting.
From The White House website:
Today’s Recovery Act in Action episode takes place in Durham, NC at Cree, Inc., America’s foremost producer of LED lighting. It’s a tale of many important economic advances coming together: cutting- edge...
