Germany Cuts Solar Subsidies, Has Its Solyndra Moment
It’s Not ‘All of the Above’ After All "So now we know that when President Obama says he wants an “all of the above” strategy for energy, “the above” doesn’t include the energy source in which America has the biggest advantage over the rest of the world: coal."
Obama Subsidizes Dirty Chinese Coal Power "The United States may be the first country in history to colonize itself, reducing the world’s most advanced and complex economy to a raw-materials supplier for sophisticated manufacturing economies abroad."
The EPA Abuses First, Apologizes Later "The statute is so vague that the only natural way to read it is as a grant of power for EPA to commandeer anybody — totally at random if EPA so chooses — and force him to clean up, at his own expense, a problem that he can immediately prove he had nothing to do with."
Using the government’s generous subsidies, Germans installed 7.5 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity last year, more than double what the government had deemed “acceptable.” It is estimated that this increase alone will lead to a $260 hike in the average consumer’s annual power bill."As Winston Churchill famously said, “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” The U.S. should learn from its subsidy mistakes and end all energy subsidies. The best way for the government to promote energy exploration is to open access to locked-up resources and reduce onerous regulations. Only then will energy sources compete on their own merits, unleashed from government restraint and freed from government intervention."
Obama has the "best" energy policy? C'mon, Joe! "But to the Obama administration, to be the “best” means to weaken big oil by weaning Americans off of their product and artificially boosting the demand from “green” sources of energy. Being able to stand up in front of a now-bankrupt Solyndra is better than allowing oil companies to rake in record profits. Here’s just a smattering of headlines from Obama’s “green” industry:"... Neal Boortz.
Victor Davis Hanson: The Second Oil Revolution "The Canadian tar sands, deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, horizontal drilling off the eastern and western American coastlines, fracking in once-untapped sites in North Dakota, and new pipelines from Alaska and Canada could double North American gas and oil production within a decade.
"Given that North America in general and the United States in particular might soon be completely autonomous in natural-gas production and without much need of imported oil within a decade, life as we have known it for nearly the last half-century would change radically.
"Take the Middle East. The United States currently devotes about $50 billion of its military budget to patrolling the Persian Gulf and stationing thousands of troops in the region."
Who of us can disagree with this argument for opening up American oil sources? But any administration attempting to do this, even with a sympathetic Congress will find their efforts tied up for years by environmentalist's law suits. TD
Victor Davis Hanson: The Second Oil Revolution "The Canadian tar sands, deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, horizontal drilling off the eastern and western American coastlines, fracking in once-untapped sites in North Dakota, and new pipelines from Alaska and Canada could double North American gas and oil production within a decade.
"Given that North America in general and the United States in particular might soon be completely autonomous in natural-gas production and without much need of imported oil within a decade, life as we have known it for nearly the last half-century would change radically.
"Take the Middle East. The United States currently devotes about $50 billion of its military budget to patrolling the Persian Gulf and stationing thousands of troops in the region."
Who of us can disagree with this argument for opening up American oil sources? But any administration attempting to do this, even with a sympathetic Congress will find their efforts tied up for years by environmentalist's law suits. TD
It’s Not ‘All of the Above’ After All "So now we know that when President Obama says he wants an “all of the above” strategy for energy, “the above” doesn’t include the energy source in which America has the biggest advantage over the rest of the world: coal."Obama Subsidizes Dirty Chinese Coal Power "The United States may be the first country in history to colonize itself, reducing the world’s most advanced and complex economy to a raw-materials supplier for sophisticated manufacturing economies abroad."
The EPA Abuses First, Apologizes Later "The statute is so vague that the only natural way to read it is as a grant of power for EPA to commandeer anybody — totally at random if EPA so chooses — and force him to clean up, at his own expense, a problem that he can immediately prove he had nothing to do with."
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