Americans to spend $15K per home, business replacing ‘perfectly good’ electricity meters, says Texas Instruments « Green Hell Blog

Legislation is driving replacement [of electricity meters]. Perfectly good mechanical meters are being replaced [with smart meters]… In the past, a mechanical meter wasn’t replaced until it wore out. That changes the opportunity for us…

Consensus Hoax « the Air Vent

Here are a few excerpts from the letter. I found the opening paragraph particularly compelling.

Pajamas Media » Schwarzenegger Finally Learns: Freedom Is Profitable, Statism Starves

In other words, freedom is profitable but progressivism, or “liberalism” as it is known today, is not.

And this appears to be a lesson that California’s Governor Schwarzenegger has finally learned, albeit reluctantly, as he is aggressively pursuing a way to open a portion of California waters to offshore drilling.

Some Honesty on the High Speed Rail Debate - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

An op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times lays out the truth:

It won't be enough to lay down lots of track and hope people leap aboard trains and subways. It also will take discouraging the use of cars and making cities less comfortable.

[More money to be blown on bogus climate modeling]

About $4.9 million will be used for integrated climate research, which combines climate modeling and modeling of such factors as economics and choices about energy production, consumption and use, Murray’s office said.