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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
Ronald Reagan




Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts

Friday, October 19, 2012

Trifecta - Global Hoax - Report Concludes that Global Warming Ended Sixteen Years Ago

A recent report concludes that global warming ended 16 years ago. Has the world been fooled by a group of radical liberal environmentalists? Is it time for policy makers to ignore false hockey stick graphs? Find out.




Barack Obama invested TAXPAYER MONEY in Green Energy:
Solyndra - BANKRUPT
Ener 1 - BANKRUPT
Beacon Power - BANKRUPT
Abound Solar - BANKRUPT
Amonix Solar - BANKRUPT
Spectra Watt - BANKRUPT
Eastern Energy - BANKRUPT
GM Volt - Solyndra on wheels - $49,000 cost in subsidies to taxpayers for each one sold.
$900 Billion Dollars with NO Jobs.
NOTE: All of these companies were Obama campaign contributors.


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Friday, December 9, 2011

Dim Energy Future - The Coming American Darkness, Courtesy of the Liberal Left

Tokyo had to dim its lights in order to meet its energy needs following the devastating earthquake in Japan. Will America suffer similar dark nights if it takes its nuclear and fossil fuel plants offline to comply with environmental laws? Trifecta thinks so. Hear why.


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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Rhonda - The Big Government Losing Streak Continues: Backs Green Jobs, Attacks Drilling Companies

The Obama Administration is not deterred from its unbroken losing streak as it insists on trying its luck by picking winners and losers. The aggressive policies of the Energy Department, headed by Steven Chu, keep on hitting the racetrack and placing all bets on the long shots in the Green Jobs sector.

While the now-bankrupt Solyndra garnered $535 million in loan guarantees backed by the federal government, the Energy Department has doubled down on a bigger horse, SunPower, with a whopping investment of $1.2 billion dollars in taxpayer dollars from its Loan Programs Office. The Green Jobs-obsessed Obama Administration has rolled the dice with an eye-popping total of nearly $40 billion dollars in ill thought out loan guarantees.

As I detailed in my last post, Artificial Stimulus produced Artificial Recovery, linked here, the failed Solyndra loan was accompanied by multiple loans to other green technology companies that utterly failed.

Rep. George Miller, III, Democrat from California, commented on his big win for SunPower:
By fostering a business climate that encourages companies like SunPower, even more good jobs will be created locally, we’ll reduce demand for dirty energy sources, and we’ll cut customers’ utility bills. That’s the right direction.
Interior secretary Kenneth Salazar maintains the wisdom of yet another shaky pick by the Energy Department. (Come on, it’s a sure bet, this time!)
The path to a clean energy economy starts here, in places like SunPower’s research and development facility.

The work that comes from these facilities transforms renewable energy ideas into a reality. When renewable energy companies continue to invest in places like California, the realization of a new energy future is within our reach.
However, weeks before receiving the government backed loan, SunPower announced that the new plant creating green jobs would be located in Mexico.

Harold Hamm reaches a different set of conclusions altogether and shared his insights with the Wall Street Journal:
President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy. We can’t come anywhere near the scale of energy production to achieve energy independence by pouring tax dollars into ‘green energy’ sources like wind and solar, he argues. It has to come from oil and gas.
Harold Hamm, the founder and CEO of oil company Continental Resources, went to Washington last month. Hamm forcefully argued that the United States could be “completely energy independent by the end of the decade. We can be the Saudi Arabia of oil and natural gas in the 21st century.”

Hamm argued against the failed policies of the Obama administration and its zealous minions who seek to pour millions and billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain of Green Energy companies. Government backed loans for bankrupt companies is merely a quixotic pursuit of adopting green energy to power the massive American economy. However, the free market’s reluctance to invest further should be a flashing road sign warning of the foolhardiness of tossing money at an “old green mare.” When the technology and cost effectiveness of Green Technology warrants investment, the private sector’s venture capitalists will ante up with investment funds. Government spending has failed miserably, wasting billions in taxpayer dollars when America can least afford to squander shrinking revenues on losers that cannot survive in a competitive economy. The Green Energy companies are too green to produce jobs or even to stay afloat. No amount of priming the pump with precious dollars from U.S. citizens has changed this stubborn reality.

Hamm and his soaring Continental Resources has had jaw dropping success in the newest advancements in fossil fuel exploration. His experiences and success have become legendary in the industry.

Hamm was one of the pioneers of “horizontal drilling” which has unlocked huge, new stores of domestic fossil fuels. He was the original discoverer of the gigantic Bakken oil fields of Montana and North Dakota. The U.S Geological Survey estimate was around four or five billion barrels. But the oil man with the Midas touch asserts that that estimate falls woefully short.





“No way. We estimate that the entire field, fully developed, in Bakken is 24 billion barrels.”

Harold Hamm has been the leader of the resurgence of the oil industry that has now become the “fastest-growing manufacturing sector” in the nation and has positioned the U.S. in third place among oil producers in the world.

Due to the perfect alignment of the stars, or some Invisible Hand, the controlling power of OPEC is simultaneously falling. OPEC no longer controls market share or dictates price. Although the U.S. Imported about two-thirds of its oil in the 1990′s, today we import less than half of it with 40% coming from Canada and Mexico.

At last, North America may achieve energy independence. So what could stop that success now?

The ideological bent of President Obama and his likeminded administration members continue to thwart the opportunity for a prosperous America and real job creation with job-killing policies and personal forays into “venture socialism.”

Hamm was invited to a “giving summit” along with other wealthy Americans like Buffett and Gates. When it was Mr. Hamm’s turn to talk briefly with President Obama, “I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this.”

The president’s reaction?
He turned to me and said, ‘Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.’ Even if you believed that, why would you want to stop oil and gas development? It was pretty disappointing.
Currently, Continental Resources is facing charges brought by the Obama Justice Department for the death of a SINGLE bird in North Dakota under the Migratory Bird Act. Meanwhile, no charges are filed against the preferred wind industry, which kills over 400,000 birds each year. And with drilling permits difficult to procure and this antagonistic Administration’s policy proposals, such as raising $40 billion in taxes on the oil and gas industry, drilling companies face difficult road blocks.

The job creation record of Hamm’s company is staggering:
Mr. Hamm believes that if Mr. Obama truly wants more job creation, he should study North Dakota, the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 3.5%. He swears that number is overstated: ‘We can’t find any unemployed people up there. The state has 18,000 unfilled jobs…And these are jobs that pay $60,000 to $80,000 a year.’ The economy is expanding so fast that North Dakota has a housing shortage. Thanks to the oil boom—Continental pays more than $50 million in state taxes a year—the state has a budget surplus and is considering ending income and property taxes.

So what is stopping the U.S. from achieving energy independence today? The failed policies of the Obama administration intent on squandering piles of revenue on Green Energy which has failed to create jobs while impeding the success of the fastest-growing manufacturing sector.


Rhonda

Rhonda is a stay home mom of two and was a teacher for ten years. She is a graduate of Clemson University and lives in Georgia. She is dedicated to the conservative, Constitutional principles that have made America a great country.
Visit Rhonda's Blog - One Conservative Voice


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Monday, September 5, 2011

Solar Company Touted By Obama Goes Bust

A California solar panel manufacturer which President Obama had made the poster child of his effort to expand the green economy and grow jobs has filed for bankruptcy, the company announced today.

Solyndra said “global economic and solar industry market conditions” forced it to abruptly shutter its Fremont, Calif., factory and immediately layoff more than 1,100 employees.

“Regulatory and policy uncertainties in recent months created significant near-term excess supply and price erosion,” Solyndra president and CEO Brian Harrison said in a statement. “Raising incremental capital in this environment was not possible. This was an unexpected outcome and is most unfortunate.”


September 3, 2011

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Michelle Malkin - Judge Throws Out Obama Admin Regs Slowing Fuel Exploration

Last week, a Federal judge in Wyoming ruled in favor of oil and gas companies who are challenging the administration. The court is agreeing with the oil companies that the Obama administration went too far in slowing down fuel exploration in this case. Why is this significant?

Michelle Malkin says, "This administration has continued to legislate behind closed doors without any public comment or review trumping congressional laws and doing it in a way that is arbitrary, capricious and contrary to the rule of law."

When it comes U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar standing in the way of permits to oil and gas companies, Joshua Block, fmr. Gore/Liberman campaign spokesperson, says, "This effort may itself may have not been right, but underlying that effort I think is the White House's effort to make sure the economy gets going, that we create some jobs. The oil and gas industry that's making hundreds of billions in profit every year is behaving responsibly. That's what the American people want to see."




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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Masdar the Green City - Future of Mankind?

A Coalition of Islam, The United Nations, Environmentalists (The New Marxists), Liberal Progressives and World Leaders - All gathering in the United Arab Emirates - what could possibly be wrong or go wrong?

Masdar The Green City


A convenient truth - The 10 Principles?


Superbus visits Masdar City


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Friday, July 8, 2011

World's Future - Energy and Islam?

The Survival of the Planet is in the hands of the United Nations, Islam and Energy?

Leaders from all over the World gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for a World Summit on the Future of Mankind - January, 2011.

NOTE: Inshallah means = If Allah Wills


Secretary Clinton's Remarks at Masdar
NOTE: UAE = United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates is controlled by Islamic Sharia Law.


The World Future Energy Summit 2011
Wealth has been derived from the Earth in Mankinds History - NOW it will be derived from outside the Earth.


Barack Obama appealed to James Cameron (Avatar) about the Gulf Oil Leak


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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Glenn Beck - Energy Concerns and Small Businesses





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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Sen. Rand Paul on Consumer Choice in Energy Committee Hearing

Sen. Paul questions the Department of Energy's commitment to protecting consumer choice during consideration of Appliance/Light Bulb Energy-Efficiency Legislation



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Friday, April 29, 2011

Sarah Palin - President Obama Doesn't Know What He's Doing When It Comes to Energy






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Gas Prices Up For 30 Straight Days

Why are Gas Prices Different in Different Areas?

Gas Prices Have Doubled Since Barack Obama Became President


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