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AND YET THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE ANTI-POLLUTION: First it Killed the Electric Car; Now CARB Goes After Plug-in Hybrids. “Last week, the East Bay Express published an article regarding the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) plans for aftermarket, plug-in hybrid conversions. Proving once again that CARB is a political machine with something more than ‘clean air’ in its agenda, the board is set to deal a punishing, bureaucratic body-blow to startup companies like 3 Prong Power and A123 Systems.”

Al Gore: Savvy Doomsayer | Trends Updates

Of course, Al Gore is grandstanding. Behind all the bombast of talk on the potential of doom for this planet because of man’s overusage of the wrong power and energy lurks the dirty secret that his mansion consumes more electricity in a month than the entire town where the mansion is located. [?]

The Big Brother mentality is so hard to shake off.

Ron Bailey > Updating Gore on Greenland's Glaciers - Reason Magazine

Given his oft-stated devotion to scientific accuracy, will someone please let Gore know the good news that the bleeding of Greenland's glaciers has been stanched?

Right on the Mark: Stimul-What?

Yesterday the House passed the latest in stimulus spending while Al Gore got on an airplane & flew to Washington just to tell us that our carbon footprint is warming the planet. It just seems funny to me that Al Gore's impeccable timing had him speaking to America about global warming on a day when much of the country was snowed in. With the economic woes before us Al Gore seemed to pop up just in time to get some cash thrown at some of his pet projects.