Obama's green energy plans build hopes and scepticism

Not everyone cheered Mr Obama's plan. Private companies could use domestic energy resources like oil and coal to create jobs without the hefty price tag for taxpayers, said Thomas Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research, in a statement.

"The road to economic recovery will be paved with private sector investment, not government-sponsored asphalt," he said.

FOCUS ON/Jan. 10: Schools need caution if teaching global warming

Nonsense should not be taught in schools as a consensus. There is a lot of trouble with the way global warming is being taught. (See Bud Kennedy column: "Some don’t want to see anything green — not even during Christmas," Dec. 21)
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In science, you don’t take a theory and use everything that supports the theory as fact and throw out everything and everybody that conflicts with that. That is not science. In science you can only prove a theory wrong; you cannot prove it true.

— Bill Pitts, Fort Worth