Eco-scams are as easy as ‘A123’

Michelle Malkin 3/30/2012

While President Obama was busy lambasting Big Oil tax breaks on Thursday, yet another one of his environmental welfare recipients (the very kind he wants to redistribute oil subsidies to) was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Who needs to win the Mega Millions lottery? Start a pie-in-the-sky eco-boondoggle, and a half-billion-dollar […]

March 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: "Stimulus" program, Barack Obama, corruption, Department of Energy, Energy, federal funding, Lobbying, Massachusetts, Michigan, Taxes | Comments are closed

Another Stimulus-Funded Energy Company Hits the Skids

Jim Geraghty National Review Online 3/29/2012

Another stimulus success story – well, success for Democratic lawmakers and a company that received millions in federal funds – not a victory for the taxpayer, laid-off workers, or the customers who will probably never purchase the product of the rapidly sinking company.

A Waltham-based electric car battery supplier […]

March 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: "Stimulus" program, Barack Obama, Elections, Energy, federal funding, Federal spending, Massachusetts, Michigan, Taxes, technology, unemployment | Comments are closed

Democrats Anxious About Gas Prices While Stopping Measures to Increase Long-Term Supply

CJ Ciaramella The Washington Free Beacon 2/27/2012

Worried about the political consequences of higher gas prices, left-wing think tanks and some House Democrats are urging Obama to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, meanwhile, is lashing out at the GOP, oil companies, and the Koch brothers.

The spike in oil […]

February 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Barack Obama, Canada, Congress, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politicians, Progressives, Socialism | Comments are closed

Fakegate: why the perps should be prosecuted

“Be you never so high, the law is above you.”

Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Watts Up With That 2/23/2012

…Over tea and scones at the National Liberal Club while Dick was with the Minister, several of us discussed what we call Fakegate – the frauds recently perpetrated to the detriment […]

February 25th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Bloggers, Environment, FBI, Government, Great Britain, law enforcement, Media accountability, Progressives, Science/Research/Technology, Socialism | Comments are closed

House votes to expand drilling, approve Keystone XL

Darren Goode Politico.com 2/16/2012

House lawmakers on Thursday approved a plan to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline and expand drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The 237-187 victory for Republican leaders — as part of one portion of a much larger energy and infrastructure strategy — was a relatively painless start to […]

February 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Alaska, Congress, Department of the Interior, Energy | Comments are closed

Interior Dept. faces resistance in push for more public lands

“By locking up the Atlantic, Pacific and parts of the Arctic, the Obama administration is forfeiting the production of new American energy, the creation of over a million new American jobs and the generation of new revenue.”

~Congressman Doc Hastings

Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers 2/15/2012

It’s cost $15 to shoot a […]

February 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Department of the Interior, Employment, Energy, Environment, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed

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