http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/energy/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:33:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286413/posts Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly stated that Cap and Trade will be a priority for the 111th Congress. Embraced some years ago in Europe and a few other countries, cap and trade creates an artificial market for various industries to buy, sell, and trade allowances that permit a certain amount of carbon output. It has long been on the wish list for American liberals and extremist environmentalists. And with Democrats now in control of Congress and the White House, you can bet they will soon engage an all effort to enact cap and trade. In fact, in the 2010 White House... Freedom Works http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286413/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:33:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286285/posts What's the single BEST way to achieve energy independence? A Weekly Poll. A Weekly Poll http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286285/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285919/posts Thirty thousand scientists and NASA say Global warming is a farce! So, why are we not drilling for our own oil here in the USA? Why are we shutting down the coal mining, putting people out of jobs? Who wants to drive one of those little cars around all the BIG trucks on the roads? Not me. It won’t happen...been there, done that, and lived to tell about it. Americans are being scammed! The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285919/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285897/posts Jamie Dupree Cap and Trade Extras By Jamie Dupree @ July 2, 2009 12:00 AM Permalink | Comments (50) | TrackBacks (0) I know, I know. I'm probably boring you to death by going through the Cap and Trade bill with a fine tooth comb. But today, let's talk about how it would direct money to the working poor in America. On page 1193, the bill would add a section to the Social Security Act on an "Energy Refund Program." Basically, those making no more than 150% of the poverty line, would get monthly cash payments from the government to... WSB Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285897/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:41:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285851/posts Radarsat-1 satellite image with detail insets showing oil slicks in Gulf of Mexico following passage of Hurricane Katrina. Image taken on September 2, 2005. Whats In The Photo: Satellite radar image map showing oil apparently leaking from multiple sources, in a cluster of offshore platforms, on September 1, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Approximate center of source area 29.421989N/89.500911W (NAD27). Oil slicks are dark patches; platforms are very bright spots. Large bright areas are land. Sky Truth http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285851/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:13:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285579/posts Three African countries on Friday signed an accord to build a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285579/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285327/posts More unemployment means a smaller carbon footprint, as California greenies succeed in convincing a judge to shut down a needed modernization of California's oldest refinery, the massive 104 year old Chevron Richmond refinery. David R. Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: A judge has ordered Chevron Corp. to stop work on its controversial oil refinery expansion in Richmond, handing environmentalists their biggest victory in a long fight over the project. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga gave Chevron 60 days to wind up work on the project, which would have given the 107-year-old refinery greater flexibility to... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285327/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285325/posts Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired powerThu Jul 2, 2009 4:33pm EDT By Bernie Woodall LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday. California does not have any... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285325/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:59:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284920/posts Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) inserted a last-minute 310-page amendment into the cap-and-trade climate change bill just hours before the bill reached a House vote last Friday evening, and the amendments included indecipherable provisions for something called a “central procurement state.” CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284920/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:34:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284772/posts California officials are beginning to worry that the state's focus on transitioning to renewable-energy sources could lead to power shortages in the near term. The state has been so keen to develop renewables that relatively few conventional power generators, such as gas-fired plants, have been built lately. That risks a possible energy shortfall in certain places if the economy rebounds any time soon. California's utilities are barreling ahead to try to meet a state mandate to garner 33% of their power from renewable sources by 2020, and some officials are concerned the effort might push up electricity prices and crimp... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284772/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283940/posts The idea of wind generated electric energy is being sold by environmentalists as an overlooked opportunity to reduce greenhouse gasses. Global warming advocates claim that this discounted treasure could be a major part of an effort to reduce the burning of fossil fuels and eliminate the need for some of our nuclear power plants. Is it true that we are passing up on a gold mine of renewable energy in favor of unnecessary and harmful fossil and nuclear fuels? Let's start by looking at what we use to generate the power we use today. Renewables, such as wind, solar, biomass,... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283940/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:43:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283831/posts Classic Glenn Beck Video to send to friends at link, Schiff quotes from clip: “It’s a tax. We are kicking an economy when it’s down. The last thing we need is a new tax, especially one as expensive to enforce and administer as this tax. And what really bothers me is they don’t really have the specifics of the bill they are passing. They are giving the EPA a blank check. Didn’t they learn anything from TARP? Who knows what these guys will come up with.” “It’s kicking us in the groan. It’s going to hurt OUR industry the most.... youtube/FNC/Glenn beck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283831/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:37:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283710/posts Regulation: Ignoring the first rule of holes, a bankrupt state passing out IOUs welcomes an EPA waiver allowing it to further kill its economy. Too bad the state can't stop the air pollution imported from a growing China. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday granted California its long-standing request — denied by the Bush administration — for a waiver to allow it to impose even more stringent air pollution rules than currently required by the federal government.The way is now clear for implementation of a 2002 state law requiring new cars to increase their fuel economy 40% by 2016.... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283710/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283617/posts Imagine a defense that starts like this. There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy bill that just passed that I absolutely hate. It is too weak in key areas and way too complicated in others. A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg contraption. It is pathetic that we couldn’t do better. It is appalling that so much had to be given away to polluters. It stinks. It’s a mess. I detest it. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283617/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:14:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283509/posts alibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} "The worse, the better," Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a communist revolution. President Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently updated Lenin's maxim, saying, "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." Last Friday, the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives took those maxims to heart when they pushed through their 1,200-page American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act by a vote 219 to 212. The bill is supposed to address... Reason http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283509/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:54:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283353/posts What is “Cap and Trade”? June 30, 2009 by Doug Parris “Cap and Trade” is a relatively simple concept using extremely complicated laws. But all you need to understand is the concept. THE GOAL “Cap and Trade” begins with the assumption that using energy is a bad thing and the less we use the better. The goal is using less energy. THE CAP “Cap and Trade” puts a U.S. Government “cap” on energy use, creating a government-imposed artificial energy shortage. The shortage is INTENTIONAL. It is the whole purpose of the program. If you are old enough to remember or... www.thereaganwing.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283353/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283308/posts Like much of the country, you may have spent your time last week snickering about the peccadilloes of yet another hapless politician who couldn’t keep his pants zipped. Or maybe you were captivated by the untimely but predictable passing of the most talented musical freak of the last quarter century. Perhaps while watching the ABC-Barack Obama dog-and-pony show purporting to deal with the future of your health care system, you were deceived into thinking that this was the big issue of the week. If so, you would be wrong. Make no mistake, it is on the agenda, but the real... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283308/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:26:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283179/posts Barack Obama called for House passage of the cap and trade tax bill last Friday by calling it a jobs bill. The bill is designed to raise the price of energy in the U.S. so much that it will reduce the use of fossil fuels by 17% by 2020 and by 83% by 2050. Sentencing the U.S. economy to high cost energy is not a particularly good strategy for creating jobs. The Charles River Associates, a Harvard based economics consulting firm, estimates a net loss of jobs from the bill of about 2.5 million each year. This is surely a... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283179/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283127/posts The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that. This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283127/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:49:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282969/posts The House passed a sweeping energy and global warming cap and trade bill Friday. This bill, titled “America’s Clean Energy and Security Act,” or better known as Waxman-Markey, is the Democrats’ answer to the worst recession in decades: a national energy tax -- a tax designed to impose economic pain through higher energy prices and lost jobs. ..... The fact is that the Waxman-Markey bill is just the latest incarnation of costly cap-and-trade legislation that will have a devastating impact on the economy, cost more American jobs by pushing them overseas and drastically increase the size and scope of the... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282969/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:32:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282768/posts One of West Virginia's U.S. senators is opposed to the landmark global warming bill that passed the House Friday, while the other has "serious concerns" about the measure. Charleston Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282768/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:16:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282781/posts Who’s behind the Cap-and-Tax 8 Republicans? You won’t be surprised. Kevin Mooney at the Examiner reports: Rep. Kirk of Illinois, for instance, was among the top 20 recipients of PAC donations from environmental groups in the 2008 election cycle. He received $1,000 from the League of Conservation Voters (PAC), $4,000 from Ocean Champions (PAC) and $4,000 from Republicans for Environmental Protection (PAC). In this same cycle Republicans for Environmental Protection also donated $4,000 in PAC funds to Rep. Reichert. Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282781/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:37:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282777/posts Freud said we’re forever changed by the traumas of our youth, and so it is with the Democrats and Clintoncare. Even as you watch the leading Democrats today in their moment of glory, you can still see wounds caused by the defeat of the Clinton health care initiative. You see the psychic reactions and the scars and the lessons they have taken away so that sort of debacle never happens again. New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282777/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:28:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282767/posts Energy action switches sides on Capitol Hill as poll shows uneasiness WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- With a victory for his energy policy in the House of Representatives last week, President Barack Obama now shifts his attention to the Senate, where passage of a controversial "cap-and-trade" system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is facing a steep uphill climb. "In the months to come, the Senate will take up its version of the energy bill, and I am confident that they too will choose to move this country forward," Obama said on Monday. Following the House vote on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry... Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282767/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282719/posts Controversy is growing over a new energy bill now on it's way to the U.S. Senate, after being approved by the House. It's a Democratic bill, with some Republican support, including that of 45th District Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. The legislation was approved in the House on Friday. Only eight republicans supported it . Valley resident Christopher Cerillo said he voted for Bono Mack twice, but can't believe she voted yes on an energy bill that is aimed to limit pollution. "I'm just really disappointed as well as other Republicans that she didn't back up the values we stand for,"... kpsplocal2.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282719/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:58:50 GMT