Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Obama’s 'Cap and Trade' Plan Imposes huge tax - HUMAN EVENTS
...Wall Street -- Among the most influential lobbyists for Kyoto-style policy are Wall Street firms planning to make commissions on the purchase and sale of carbon credits. Again surely a coincidence, the players most heavily invested in profiting from a cap-and-trade scheme were among those mostly heavily implicated in last year’s collapse (e.g., Lehman Bros., JP Morgan Chase). The crumbling Bank of America, naturally, is also a leading cheerleader of the scheme.
Costello: How Europe cheats on its emissions | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Peter Costello nails Europe’s great green con...
Wind: Energy Past, not Energy Future (the intermittency curse then, as now) — MasterResource
The disadvantage of windpower as a primary energy source has been long recognized. This 1838 textbook described the competitive situation of wind as follows...
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So beware of the hyperbole about windpower being the next great thing. It is a very old thing that could not, and still cannot, compete with the manifold advantages of hydrocarbon energies.

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