Bookworm on Dec 06 2012 | Filed under: Education, Energy
Tweet Universities have long been the incubators of climate change hysteria. They teach anthropogenic climate change there with the same certainty that they teach accounting principles. There is no room for debate. Students graduate as true believers. But what happens when the students discover that their teachers are hypocrites? They go after them: A group [...]
Danny Lemieux on Oct 23 2012 | Filed under: Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Uncategorized
Quite clearly, our own environmentally sensitive natives believed that all one needed to do was to build bricks, mortar and steel into modern-looking structures, pick an environmentally friendly “technology” with a cool sounding name and, voila! Magic benefits would come out of thin air – endless BTUs of cheap, pollution-free, guilt-free, Gaia-approved energy that defied the laws of physics, engineering and economics.
Danny Lemieux on Aug 09 2012 | Filed under: Economics, Energy
I met a semi-retired petroleum engineer in Alberta that was working on the Canadian tar sands development. I asked him what he had heard regarding the size of the Bakken oil field. He indicated that, pessimistically, it contained 1x the reserves of Saudi Arabia, while the optimistic projection was 3x the Saudi oil reserves.
Bookworm on May 27 2012 | Filed under: Economics, Energy, Government
Tweet I have been following with interest the running comment thread on my post asking about whether electric cars are actually cleaner, or if they just shift pollution outside of the consumer’s view. Very quickly, and probably inevitably, the post shifted to a cost-benefit analysis, which aimed to compare fossil fuel to alternative fuels. Just [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2012 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet Sadie sent me a link to a calculator that shows precisely how Obama’s energy policies are hitting you every time you pump gas. And those are just the costs you see. These increased fuel prices affect every aspect of American life, because oil truly is the liquid that powers the entire United States. Higher [...]
Danny Lemieux on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Government, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Muslim violence
Tweet Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve been reviewing our last [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2011 | Filed under: Energy, Freedom
Tweet Two things happened on November 26, two entirely unrelated things, that nevertheless ended up merging into a single thought in my mind: In the modern world, fossil fuels equal liberty. If you cannot assure the people the former, forget about trying to foist upon them the latter. Let me walk you through my thought [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 27 2011 | Filed under: Energy, Semantics, Uncategorized
Tweet One lesson of advertising is that, no matter whether true or false, to make a message stick, one must repeat, repeat, repeat. This is how false messages become enshrined into the ideological orthodoxy of the Left and ripple out to the collective consciousness of the masses. Now, there are many ways to deliberately distort [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Energy
Tweet I hope this gets wide play:
Danny Lemieux on Apr 07 2011 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet Bruce McQuain, of the always thought-provoking and very economically libertarian QandO blog, has an interesting post that provides a good overview of just how many large natural gas resources there are in the U.S. and the world. http://www.qando.net/?p=10647 Add to that our vaste coal and oil resources… Folks, there is absolutely no [...]
Danny Lemieux on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Energy, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, Self-reliance
Tweet Israel as the next Saudia Arabia? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas reserves, also anticipated to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: Energy, Taxes
Tweet This is the cozy mansion New York Times‘ columnist Tom Friedman calls home: Judging by its size, it probably has a carbon footprint roughly equal to a small nation’s: As the July edition of the Washingtonian Magazine notes, Friedman lives in “a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel [...]
Bookworm on Sep 14 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Energy
Tweet I’ve got two quick environmental links for you today. The first has to do with pollution. You know that I’ve said at this blog all along that cap-and-trade is stupid, not only because it will destroy America’s economy, but because the really big up-and-coming polluters are China and India. Turns out I was wrong: [...]
Bookworm on Sep 08 2009 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet Our travels this weekend took us over the Altamont Pass, home of one of America’s largest windmill farms. The children were amazed by the endless vista of spinning windmills, and my husband waxed rhapsodic about the clean energy. Being contrary, I mentioned that the windmills kill lots of birds. Indeed, I said, there was [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet Even working together, Babs Boxer and John Kerry are still unable to beat Palin’s clear message and, instead, come out with meaningless government speak. I can’t resist a very light fisking of their opinion piece for the WaPo, which does precisely what my blog slogan says Democrats do: they take conclusions and try to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2009 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet I got an email poll from my representative Lynn Woolsey. I was willing to take the poll, even though it would mean newsletters from her, until I actually read the poll. It’s a dishonest one, and makes intelligent responses impossible. Here’s the whole email, with my comments in red: As you may know, Congress [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Energy
Tweet Obama finally came out from hiding to talk a bit about the economy. One of my liberal friends found this the most exciting aspect of his speech: “We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 25 2008 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet I know nothing about oil shale. Harry Reid, however, made it news by trying to sneak an amendment into a bill that would block developing oil shale. With oil shale being news, I’ve now learned from someone who seems to be well-informed on the subject (one of Anchoress’ readers) that Reid is acting as [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Energy, Media matters, Republicans
Tweet You’ve all heard the question that is the title of my post, haven’t you? Is an audience necessary for a sound to have meaning or even existence? And what if, in our world, the intermediary to the audience bugs out? That’s today’s question, as Republicans vigorously debate the new drilling despite the fact that, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Energy
Tweet IBD does an enjoyably neat job of cutting Nancy Pelosi down to size: When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m [...]
Bookworm on Jul 29 2008 | Filed under: Energy
Tweet Okay, I admit, that’s an incredibly awkwardly phrased post title (I’m making a habit of those), but I wanted to ask you all a question. What I noticed some weeks ago was that, the moment Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling, oil prices dropped. My view was that the mere expectation of [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: Energy, John McCain
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