Category Archives: “Green” Energy
O’Bummer and Electric Cars…Stupid is as Stupid Does
Obama Pledges to Waste Still More Money on Electric Cars
Despite occasional posturing that only a fool would take seriously, Obama has made it clear that he has no intention of allowing a significant reduction in the monstrous deficit that threatens to pull us off the cliff after Cypress. That’s why he thinks America can afford frivolous wackiness like this:
Envisioning cars that can go ‘coast to coast without using a drop of oil,’ President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline.
Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices.
Under Obama’s rule, the “fluctuations” have been consistently upward.
Corrupt biofuel boondoggles have driven up world food prices and possibly consume more energy than they produce. Electric cars, due to the massive environmental damage inflicted in the production of their short-lived batteries and the fact that the electricity to run them has to come from somewhere, usually from burning coal, are not significantly better for the environment than more economically efficient real cars. If electric cars made any sense whatsoever, the free market would be able to produce them profitably without coercion.
As usual, Obama claims that this profligate waste will not increase the deficit.
The initiative, proposing to spend $200 million a year on research, would be paid for with revenue from federal oil and gas leases on offshore drilling and would not add to the deficit.
But even if the entire $200 million per year is stolen from consumers of efficient sources of energy, causing gas prices to “fluctuate” even further upward, the drain on the economy will reduce the tax base as it throws still more people out of work, further increasing the deficit.
Every penny the government spends on anything increases the deficit, just as every penny it spends makes us less free.
On a tip from Bill T.
By Dave Blount at Moonbattery: http://moonbattery.com/
Fascist EPA Slapped Down Again by Court
Court Rules EPA Can’t Mandate Use Of Nonexistent Biofuels
It seems logical that you can’t order businesses to use what doesn’t exist, but this is Obama’s EPA, whose leader, Lisa Jackson, invented a nonexistent person in order to evade the law.
A federal court delivered a serious blow to the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel agenda, ruling that the agency exceeded its authority by mandating refiners use cellulosic biofuels, which isn’t commercially available.
The court sided with the country’s chief oil and gas lobby, the American Petroleum Institute, in striking down the 2012 EPA mandate that would have forced refineries to purchase more than $8 million in credits for 8.65 million of gallons of the cellulosic biofuel. However, none of the biofuel is commercially available.
“[W]e agree with API that EPA’s 2012 projection of cellulosic biofuel production was in excess of the agency’s statutory authority,” reads the court decision.
API said refiners were forced to purchase biofuel credits for nonexistent gallons of cellulosic biofuel to meet the EPA’s mandate, reports the Hill.
“We are glad the court has put a stop to EPA’s pattern of setting impossible mandates for a biofuel that does not even exist,” API Group Downstream Director Bob Greco said in a statement. “This absurd mandate acts as a stealth tax on gasoline with no environmental benefit that could have ultimately burdened consumers
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Thanks to Obummer…Your Power Bill is About to Go Way Up…and That is What He Wants
Thanks Barack… Georgia Power Company Closes 15 Plants Thanks To Latest EPA Regulations
The Milledgeville area plant closing will cost more than 200 jobs. (The Telegraph)
A Georgia utilities company is closing 15 coal, oil and gas plants thanks to the latest Obama EPA regulations.
Reuters reported, via The Examiner:
Georgia Power said on Monday it plans to seek approval from Georgia regulators to retire 15 coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants in the state totaling 2,061 megawatts (MW) due primarily to the high cost of meeting stricter federal environmental regulations.
Over the past few years, U.S. generating companies have announced plans to shut about 40,000 MW of older coal-fired power plants as low natural gas prices have made it uneconomic for the generators to spend millions to upgrade the plants’ emissions systems to meet the latest federal and state environmental rules.
In a press release, Georgia Power, the biggest unit of U.S. power company Southern Co, said it wanted to shut units 3 and 4 at Plant Branch in Putnam County; units 1-5 at Plant Yates in Coweta County; units 1 and 2 at Plant McManus in Glynn County; units 1-4 at Plant Kraft in Chatham County; and units 2 and 3 at Boulevard in Chatham County.
The company said it plans to file its updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with Georgia’s utility regulators on Jan. 31.
Units 3-4 at Branch, units 1-5 at Yates and units 1-3 at Kraft are coal-fired units. Kraft Unit 4 and Boulevard 2 and 3 are fired by natural gas and oil. McManus units 1-2 are oil-fired.
The company said it expects to ask to retire the units, other than Kraft 1-4, by the April 16, 2015, effective date of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) rule.
From The Daley Gator: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/
Obama’s EPA Trying to Crush The Coal Industry
Obama’s EPA Planning To Crush Coal Industry With Avalanche Of New Regulations After Election…
“If somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can – it’s just that it will bankrupt them” – Barack Obama
Via Washington Examiner:
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.
The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.
From Weasel Zippers:
