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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 75 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2012 37 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2012 25 Comments

Historically high winter gas prices: Who to blame? You know. Via American Glob: Obama is still trying to make this about Republicans. Nancy Pelosi has moved on to blaming Wall Street. A few years ago Obama, Pelosi and almost every other member of their party blamed one person. The president. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2012 27 Comments

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: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 88 Comments

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 out here," Obama said at the University of Miami today. "If we can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2012 53 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2012 45 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2011 6 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 17, 2011 12 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 14, 2011 14 Comments

When I dubbed the nascent Solyndra scandal "Teapot Solyndra" in memory of the Teapot Dome Scandal, I worried that I might be getting ahead of myself. But with this administration, it's hard to get ahead of oneself.  Fearing the worst usually is the safest bet. And that worst fear seems...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 13 Comments

I've been receiving e-mails from readers in the past weeks insisting that Obama would kill the pipeline planned to bring "oil sands" oil from Canada to the U.S.  Given the Obama administration's policies to date, such expectation was reasonable. The environmental movement made the oil sands...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2011 6 Comments

You know how much Obama loves windmills, and how overblown is the future of wind power. In Britain they have been pushing wind power far harder and longer than we have, and it is turning into a fiasco of subsidies from the windless masses to the winded-gentry. Anthony...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2011 26 Comments

Taking wasted energy from auto traffic and turning it into electricity sounds hard to believe, but these Israeli researchers may be onto something (h/t LukeHandCool): Scientists in Israel say they have invented a way of turning traffic into electricity. The bright sparks at the country's Technion Institute of Technology...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 06, 2011 12 Comments

Because as we know, windmills are our future. While I did send a Tweet, I didn't get to follow the Twitter Townhall. Please tell me, did he mention windmills? or at least "wind energy"?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 23, 2011 15 Comments

Yes, "drill baby drill" will not increase the supply of oil this month, but if we had been drilling baby drilling the past two and one-half years, instead of stifling production almost everywhere, we would not need to be releasing our strategic petroleum reserves.  Via...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2011 30 Comments

More in the high-speed rail follies (h/t Charlie Sykes), from the LA. Times:California's much-vaunted high-speed rail project is, to put it bluntly, a train wreck. Intended to demonstrate the state's commitment to sustainable, cutting-edge transportation systems, and to show that the U.S. can build rail...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2011 15 Comments

Sure, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may be about to shut down oil production in a key region of Texas to protect the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.  But the Feds are ignoring the threat from this environmental danger, the Texas Roadrunner, caught here eating a,...

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