Department of Energy
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Environment/Energy
Executive Branch Sites Continue to Promote Obama’s Climate Politics
by James Taylor January 28, 2019Waters keep rising in the D.C. Swamp.
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Environment/Energy
Let’s End Welfare Recipient-Fake Energy Wind And Solar – Not Actual Energy Source Coal
by Seton Motley July 5, 2018The ongoing, rolling fact is – “green energy”…is neither green nor energy.
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Croplands, habitats, taxes, family budgets, safety sacrificed to enrich politically connected few?
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Renewable energy workers produce relatively little power.
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Environment/Energy
Wind Power’s Future in U.S. Could Be Thwarted by Grassroots Opposition
by Thomas Hemphill and Mark Perry June 30, 2017The luster is coming off wind power as an economically viable, environmentally friendly, community-friendly source of America’s energy future—and for some very good reasons.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there truly are numerous myths that perpetuate throughout the media and culture that are not supported by any fair reading of the available data.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Dear Ivanka: Al Gore Doesn’t Have Climate Solutions, Republicans Do
by James Taylor December 7, 2016Dear Ivanka: It is admirable that you are concerned about global warming and are looking to identify common-sense global warming policies.
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If Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, one of the changes you can expect is an invasion of industrial wind development in your community that has the potential to severely damage your property values, ruin the viewshed, impact your sleep patterns, and cause your electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket”—all thanks to your tax dollars.
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Environment/Energy
Bill Gates Says Capitalism Can’t Save Us from Climate Change
by Emily Zanotti November 2, 2015Bill Gates doesn’t believe that those who operate within the free market can ever be compelled to produce alternative fuel sources, so he suggests that the government spend untold millions on it instead.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Electric Truck Company Looks Like Next Stimulus-Funded Bankruptcy
by Paul Chesser October 8, 2015An electric truck manufacturer that was awarded $32 million from President Obama’s stimulus program has informed one of its investors that it is on the verge of bankruptcy, if it did not raise $4.5 million by Friday and $10 million by the end of October.
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Touted as “America’s first offshore wind project,” Cape Wind became one of America’s most high-profile and most controversial wind-energy projects. Fourteen years in the making, estimated at $2.6 billion for 130 turbines, covering 25 square miles in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts, the Cape Wind project has yet to install one turbine—let alone produce any electricity.
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
What Would Milton Friedman Say About Renewable Electricity Mandates?
by Taylor Smith October 10, 2014In a May 23, 1977 column for Newsweek, titled “A Department of Energy?” the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman wrote: “Do not be misled into supposing that the energy problem is a purely technical problem that engineers can solve.”
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I started covering some of the shenanigans from the solar industry last summer when I wrote about the “Green Tea Party” in Georgia. I had no idea what a can of worms I’d opened. In September, I wrote about the net-metering battle taking place in Arizona—and pointed out the national implications of what was playing out there. The following month, I addressed, what I believe, is an organized effort by the industry, to co-opt the language of the free-market/conservative/limited-government thinking population in an effort to convenience them that government-mandated and -subsidized solar energy was a good thing. Last month I warned consumers of solar scams in a column I wrote titled “Clouds on the solar horizon.”