Kansas oil and gas producers blast Obama tax plan — Kansas Liberty

Cross said he believed the Obama administration was mistaken if it believed it could replace the natural gas and oil that wouldn’t be produced because of these changes with renewable sources of energy.

He pointed to an analysis by Robert Bryce, managing editor of Energy Tribune, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal in March.

Bryce calculated that solar and wind sources provide power equivalent to the power that would be generated by 76,000 barrels of oil a day. However, America uses power that is equivalent to what can be produced with 47.4 million barrels of oil daily.

RFK Jr. Blasts Obama as 'Indentured Servant' to Coal Industry - ABC News

"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry.

Video: People Make Earth Day Better | GlobalWarming.org

While Earth Day has previously focused on traditional concerns like pollution and recycling, we think it’s also a perfect time to think about the challenges human beings themselves face around the world – like hunger, disease and poverty – and the many ways human ingenuity has helped drive them back.