Showing posts with label Energy 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy 2015. Show all posts
Friday, December 25, 2015

To Tim Carney, the soul of the Republican Party in 2015 and beyond boils down to (mere) materialism

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Here , without the mere: "More broadly, the rising tide against Ex-Im exemplified a nascent Republican move away from corporate w...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

World leaders agree to totally toothless climate accord

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Story here . Coal for Christmas everybody!
Saturday, November 21, 2015

In 2012 Obama called gasoline at $2.50 a phony promise, three years later it's $1.77

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The promise of $2.50 a gallon gasoline was made by presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in 2012, which...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Senator Marco Rubio: We need more welders and less philosophers

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Oh boy, they ate that up in Milwaukee. Go less miles . . . use fewer gasoline.
Saturday, November 7, 2015

WaPo Gen Xer drinks climate Kool-Aid, attacks Baby Boomers for causing global warming and running up the $18 trillion debt

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spotted headed to Mt. Rushmore Here : "Boomers soaked up a lot of economic opportunity without bothering to preserve much for...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Investor's Business Daily comes out for abiotic crude oil and natural gas

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Here . You can take your Hubbert's Peak and shove it up your hind end.

To pay for highway bill, US House relies on selling strategic oil reserve and privatizing IRS employment instead of raising gasoline taxes

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From the story here : "The bill is in fact financed with a collection of offsets that many lawmakers find objectionable, such as ra...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Michigan Republicans increase gasoline excises by 7.3 cents, taking the state from 12th to 5th for highest gas taxes paid in America

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Here's the current list of highest combined federal and state gasoline taxes per gallon paid in the top paying states, from highest t...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Huge flip-flop tonight by Ben Carson on oil subsidies and ethanol

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Said he was wrong to propose taking away oil subsidies to support others, never mentioning he originally meant Iowans and their ethanol ba...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Big mistake: Donald Trump says he's 100% in favor of ethanol

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The Donald, quoted here  on September 22nd: 'Trump said that he supports the RFS at Iowa’s Faith and Freedom Forum, “I am totally ...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Trump doesn't get why Carson is ahead in Iowa citing religion when it's support for ethanol giving Carson the leg up

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Trump, quoted here : '“I love Iowa, and I honestly believe those polls are wrong,” he said. “I’m a Presbyterian, I’m a great Chris...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Rush Limbaugh doesn't understand the number one reason Ben Carson is doing so well in Iowa

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Ethanol.

Crony capitalism in nutty Iowa: Nearly 40% of Iowa's corn ends up as ethanol, not feed, driving up food and fuel costs

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Since 2010-2011, Iowa has produced an average of 12.7 billion bushels of corn, with an average of 5 billion bushels going to ethanol produ...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Conservatives give thanks for the achievements of John Boehner, libertarians, the ignorant and the stupid just snarl

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Saved taxpayers $ 762 billion over ten years by making the Bush tax rates permanent for 98% of all filers beginning at the dawn of 2013 ...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Politico lies about what John Boehner and Barack Obama accomplished together

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Here : "But [Boehner's] tenure will also be remembered for his complicated relationship with President Barack Obama. He and...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

New US oil swap with Mexico gives them light sweet crude, us heavier grades bypassing refinery mismatch

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According to the story here , perhaps as many as 100,000 barrels a day of light sweet US crude oil will head south to Mexican refineries i...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Japan will finally restart one nuclear power reactor tomorrow after 4-year shutdown since Fukushima accident

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Reported here : Japan's 48 functioning reactors have largely been shut since the catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Company's...
Monday, June 29, 2015

President signs Trade Promotion Authority (Fast Track) knocked off the news by Supreme Court decisions

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The Senate passed TPA last Wednesday, on the 24th, 60-38, but the next day ObamaCare was upheld by the Supremes and the following day Sa...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Einstein's successor Freeman Dyson: Climatologists don't understand the climate, burning coal is good for crop yields

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Quoted here in 2013: "I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic." "I just think they don’t understand the...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Former environmental activist takes aim at anthropogenic global warming

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AGW gets a dressing down from Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, Ph.D. in ecology, of Rainbow Warrior fame,  here : "[T]he Ea...