Solar powered ferries in Hong Kong

The ferries are able to operate mainly on solar energy on a typically sunny day, but don't worry if the skies are overcast - they come with an engine that can run on liquid petroleum gas just in case.

The Kind Of Debate Al Gore Hates

Unlike Al Gore, Ann and Phelim love a good debate about the excesses of environmentalism, and they proved it this week at the National Conservative Student Conference in Washington.

Most of the crowd at the Young America's Foundation event applauded the message of Not Evil Just Wrong, which exposes the lies about global warming and the DDT scare tactics that inspired today's environmentalism. But there were a few skeptics who engaged Phelim and Ann in debate both during and after the event.

Are ‘Green’ Programs Good for the Poor? — MasterResource

This is nonsense. You don’t make a country richer by taking away options from businesses.

You don’t spur businesses to hire more workers, and pay them higher wages, by reducing the productivity of the average worker, by slapping on more regulations.

American Thinker: Laws, Sausages and Healthcare

Then the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill moved into the center ring. Americans watched Chairman Henry Waxman hire a speed reader to overcome procedural calls to read the bill in committee. A video showing Waxman and ranking member Joe Barton chuckling about the speed reader did not look good for Republicans or Democrats. Not only was the sausage factory unsanitary but the shirtless workers were joking about it.

Eventually the Cap and Trade bill was rushed to the house floor and a vote held before the bill was committed to paper. There was a written 1000 page bill and 300 pages of incomprehensible amendments, but the bills language and the amendments had not been reconciled. No one could produce, let alone read the bill. Minority Leader John Boehner addressed this on the House floor shortly before the bill passed on a largely party line vote. Americans had found a pile of rancid bratwurst ready to be shipped to the neighborhood grocery store.