East Bay Express | Blogs | Berkeley: Never Mind on that Global Warming Thing

So did the San Francisco Chronicle get its story wrong when it reported that the City of Berkeley was planning to force homeowners to spend more than $30,000 each making their houses more energy efficient? Or did city officials simply do an about-face when they realized how ridiculous their idea really was after the Chron story created a firestorm? At this point, it's unclear. But no matter. City officials now say that they aren't going through with it. Or are they? City Planning Director tells the Chron that the city is only "talking more in the $10,000 range" about what it will cost homeowners to meet the city's new proposed rules. But Councilwoman Linda Maio says she wants staff to change the word "require" in the city's plan to "set a goal." Okay, which is it?— Robert Gammon

Obama Futurama - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...But our omniscient president already knows the future. It’s a future, he says, where Americans should not be “ever more dependent on the supply of foreign oil.” So what post-gasoline car would he recommend Detroit build?

Would it be the General Motors’ 1996 electric EV-1, which cost the company millions and was discontinued after three years for lack of a market?

Would it be the 80-mpg, battery-diesel hybrid GM Precept, which Vice President Al Gore test drove in 2000 and applauded as a car that “will dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil?”

Hogging the Climate Change Gravy Train — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

At one end, this tendency represents a rather naked attempt to position oneself as a relevant player in the climate debate to secure a research budget. But there may be more to it, because at the other end, this may reflect the increasing influence of environmental ideology. Accordingly, this research is either a self-serving, cynical attempt to use the obesity issue for self-gain, or it is the ignorant work of ’scientists’ who have failed to eliminate the social prejudice and values they bring to their research.

MYRON EBELL: Could We Be Looking at the Biggest Tax Hike In History? « FOX Forum « FOXNews.com

Ostensibly aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act” is, in reality, a plan designed to profit big business special interests by raising energy prices on consumers.

The carbon cap-and-trade program in the bill is an indirect tax. It would force energy users to buy phony, government-fabricated “carbon credits”, which are in reality ration coupons. Rationing would raise energy prices and thereby force consumers to use less energy. At the same time, it would expand government control over energy use and benefit companies that want to sell politically-favored fuels.

If enacted, Waxman-Markey would be the biggest tax increase in history and the biggest government intervention in the economy and in people’s lives since the second World War, which was the last time Americans had to present ration coupons in order to buy things like gas, milk, and butter.

Raising energy prices will make people poorer and drive jobs in energy-intensive industries overseas.