Anti-pipeline protesters…

Protesters met in Calgary,  Canada to  protest pipelines  and anything useful for energy production.   Their main concern is global warming,  despite the fact there has been none in 15 years.   The excuse for the pitifully small crowd was a snowstorm.   Have you ntocied how often bitterly cold winter weather descends on such groups?

Boom years…

This is what  oil exploration and production used to look like in Texas.

Earth Hour…

Gee whiz  —  I missed  Earth Hour again.  This past Saturday it was  celebrated for the fifth time by turning off lights,  which is a pretty good symbol for green endeavors.   I am amazed that MSNBC even mentioned the competing Human Achievement Hour,  which celebrated by leaving the power on.

Obama’s energy…

Well,  at least he’s  talking about energy,  though he  isn’t doing  much,  though he’s pretending his approval of an unconnected leg of the  Keystone pipeline  is cause for applause.   The previous link also points out how Obama’s friends benefit from his energy-killing regulations.   Mostly he’s claiming that Solyndra  wasn’t his baby.   His Oneness is also  lying about it  a lot  in an effort to blame others for the failures of his own policies.  He also keeps claiming that the USA has only 2% of the world’s oil reserves,  which is FAR below even the most conservative estimates.

Energy…

Our Energy Secretary has a Nobel Prize,  but he possesses neither common sense  nor a car.   The Democrat-controlled Senate  defeated an attempt  to approve the Keystone pipeline over Obama’s disapproval,  but it took His Oneness  calling Senators  in his own party to eke out the win.   Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the Fiskar Karma plug-in hybrid car  didn’t even survive  the check-in process at Consumer Reports.

Secretary Chu said last year’s $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb would offer LEDs at prices “affordable for American families.”    The  winning bulb is from  Philips at $50 a pop.   You can see how a man who doesn’t pay for a vehicle might have a distorted notion of what the average family pays for light bulbs,  but only a bunch of  bureaucrats could decide that the winner could be something so far out of line.

Chu grades himself as an A- for the  past year, by the way,  despite the fact that his energy policies are a direct cause of gas prices and  lack of energy production.   Meanwhile, two Republican senators,  DeMint and Lee,  have proposed  a revenue-neutral plan  for cutting the subsidies of energy companies.

I don’t believe the current solar storms were mentioned,  but despite a lack of congressional notice,  the flares are  producing fantastic auroras.

Green volcano…

Or  at least one will be if they can make  getting energy this way  from a volcano work.

Charmless Chu…

Energy Secretary  Chu testified before  Congress last week.  Evidently he agrees with His Oneness that you can tell a whopping lie of immense proportions and people will believe you if you have the approval of Barack Obama.   Chu and Obama share the same arrogant certainty of the superiority of their intellect, which makes it impossible for them  to admit error.

Solyndra sentiment…

The White House did its now customary Friday evening dump,  this time of  emails related to  Solyndra,  and  it’s easy to see why  they wanted them unnoticed.  Far from everything being done by the book as His Oneness assured us,  it appears that there were questions coming from within the Obama Administration as to  the legality of restructuring  the company’s loan.  Obama will blame  any shortcomings on the departing loan chief of the Energy Department,  but he won’t stop saying that  the loan was the right call.   His ideology won’t permit him to do anything else.   And no, he doesn’t care that research in Spain has already shown that for every “green” job created,  2.5 regular jobs are lost.

Needless clean coal technology?

Mark Ellis and Michael Rosen  present a fascinating  rebuttal to a James Fallows’ piece about the energy field.   I learned some facts I didn’t know,  and I consider myself pretty current on energy matters.

And while you’re educating yourself,  read this Heritage Foundation report on  why ethanol and natural gas don’t deserve subsidies.

EPA rebuked – finally…

I don’t know why the federal courts have been so reluctant to take a 2×4 to EPA regulators when it evades both the law and its responsibilities,  but Judge Richard Leon  has now taken  that rogue agency to the woodshed and applied the sturdy paddle of common sense.

Obama is most certainly  anti-coal,   but he is also anti-cheap energy.    He warned during his presidential campaign that energy prices would  “necessarily skyrocket”,  and if he kills coal,  they certainly will.   A 60% increase  is probably a conservative estimate.

The  Interior Department  is also piling on.  GE and George Soros are among the few  who will profit  from the energy-limiting energy policies of His Oneness.    There is one more:  Sen.  Harry Reid, whose former aide Obama put in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,  and as  a new report  shows,  has done everything possible to delay Yucca Mountain becoming a nuclear waste site in Reid’s home state.