Brendan Coffey - The Executive Suite - Chevron CEO: Learn to love your oil addiction, America - True/Slant

While acknowledging alternative energies will eventually play a key part in meeting U.S. energy needs, O’Reilly strongly warned that those wishing to cut out conventional fuels would set the country “on a straight path to a pre-industrial standard of living.” Though not mentioning him by name, O’Reilly clearly takes umbrage at Congressman and Energy and Commerce head Henry Waxman. ”We have all heard the people running for office say they will reduce carbon 20% by 2020 - sounds nice, doesn’t it, 20 by ‘20? - but they overstate how easy that is and understate the cost it will take.”

O’Reilly also took President Obama to task, again not by name, by ridiculing a carbon cap-and-trade system being proposed to help the nation reduce greenhouse gases. “If you liked credit derivative swaps, you’ll love cap and trade. This is smoke and mirrors.”

The Dublin-born and -trained engineer, who ascended to the top spots of Chevron in 2000, made his case that oil and gas are indispensable to the country’s energy security and to the noble goal of raising the developing world out of poverty. [Via Climate Depot]

Skeptic's Corner: Robbing from Peter to pay ...uh Peter

The absurdity is in the first paragraph. It is sort of like build it and they will come, but the they (taxpayers) are being asked to pay to build it, pay more to use it and pay more to get less than they already have. No wonder the promoters of these schemes have a problem with the free market system-they want everything given to them -for free.

FROM-Medill Reports

Wind power companies want federal renewable standards

4-Block World tackles Al Gore: Who Says Green Jobs Don’t Pay Well | GORE LIED

Via one of my favorite sites:

Tom McMahon’s 4-Block World