Crush for Clunkers - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So obsessive is Washington that NHTSA is actually advising car dealers to replace a trade-in’s motor oil with a sodium silicate solution — then run the engine to ruin it so scrap dealers can’t resell any of its parts.

The victims will be lower-income Americans who typically buy only used parts and vehicles. “Now you’re removing cars people could afford, and they’re not available anymore,” says Norm Wright, a Denver recycler. “There will be fewer cars to pull from, so the price of parts will go up.”

SUVs, apparently, aren’t the only things being sacrificed at the green altar.

Vital Voices Blog » First Woman Administrator of UNDP: Helen Clark

As Prime Minister, Clark has “led her country’s policy debate on a wide range of economic, social, environmental and cultural issues, including sustainability and climate change, and the development of an inclusive multicultural and multi faith society,” as the UNDP describes.

Where do we put all this natural gas? - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Where does this leave the market? We’ve said it before and we see no evidence to the contrary: we’ve got an incipient gas glut on our hands.

Jim Hoggan: 'Global warming as new religion?' Give me a break — climate change is serious

There is a strange conviction, in certain circles, that the world's environmental community has grown superhumanly strong — an idea that, with the cock of an eyebrow or the curl of a lip, any leading environmentalist can strike fear into the hearts of academics, politicians and businesspeople around the globe.

As the chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, the leading environmental organization in Canada, I wish that it were so.