Energy deceit

NY Times Editorial:
Cleaner Energy
There is progress in renewable energy, but there would be more if Congressional Republicans got out of the way.
Republicans are not blocking clean energy.  Anyone who wants to can go into the business.  The problem with it is that it is noncompetitive and  Democrats want to subsidize it and to strangle the market for conventional energy to make so called green energy look more competitive. The reason "clean energy" is not competitive is that it is inefficient and inconsistent in delivering energy requiring backup systems using natural gas.  The utilities and the consumers are better off just going with the natural gas to begin with.

The Times has been trying to scare people with bogus stories about the "dangers" of fracking in hopes of stopping the shale gas revolution.  The anti energy left is still trying to block drilling in New York with ludicrous claims that fracking contaminates ground water.  There is no real evidence to support these claims.

Democrats need to get out of the way of the domestic production of oil and gas.  They should drop their objections to ANWR and to offshore drilling as well as drilling in the Western US on federal controlled sites.  Their attempts to manipulate the market for energy because of their carbon phobia has made us poorer, has reduced revenue to the treasury and has killed real jobs.  There is an energy resurgence in this country, but it is taking place on private land outside the control of the anti energy left.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now.  It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Read more

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Conn Carroll: A new survey of 368 midsize to large companies found that 29% of them are considering terminating their active employee health care plans when Obamacare is full implemented in 2014. Only 71% of employers surveyed said they did not expect to drop their health coverage, while 20% said they did not know and 9% said they were planning to exit. The latest survey, conducted by Towers Watson, echoes an ealier survey by McKinsey & Co. finding that 30% of private-sector employers were planning to drop their employee health insurance coverage by 2014. When the Congressional Budget Office crunched Obamacare's spending numbers, they estimated that only 7% of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans would lose their plans. ... This means the cost of the health care fiasco will be hundreds of billions more than estimated by the CBO and Congressional Democrat. It is also clear that Obama's pledge that you could keep your health care plan if you wanted t
Read more

Bin Laden's concern about Zarqawi's remains

James Robbins: ... Bin Laden suggests that President Bush should allow Zarqawi’s body to be returned to his family in Jordan, but this is a matter that is up to the Jordanian government, which so far has not shown much interest in facilitating a homecoming. Bin Laden mocks King Abdullah II, calling him a Coalition minion, and asking “w hat scares you about Abu Musab after he’s dead? You know that his funeral, if allowed to happen, would be a huge funeral showing the extent of sympathy with the mujahedin.” A large crowd would definitely turn out, though most people would be on hand to demonstrate their anger and disgust. Last November’s hotel bombings in Amman , masterminded by Zarqawi, are still fresh in people’s memory, and mentioning them to Jordanians has the same visceral impact as memory of the 9/11 attacks does here. Jordan has adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards those who choose to mourn the country’s least favorite son, and four opposition members of parliament who paid con
Read more