Teaching Moment - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

As much as I want to see an ugly defeat, a crash-and-burn that salts the political earth whence this monstrosity came, I increasingly think that the Senate are best served just not bringing up cap-and-trade. It looks decreasingly wise to test the loyalty (and career interest) of Sens. Bayh, Nelson, Lincoln, Landrieu — and, of course, McCaskill. That means BTU II, or that line in Animal House expressing the lack of foresight in having trusted one's fraternity brothers with your brother's Caddy.

Annals of Hollywood: Comedy First : The New Yorker

After the Delta leaders, Otter and Boon, have destroyed their young fraternity brother’s car on a road trip, Otter throws his arm around him and explains, “You f*cked up. You trusted us.”

Global Climate Scam » Blog Archive » Minnesota Climate Realists Symposium

On Wednesday, August 19th, Dr. Fred Singer (physicist, research professor at George Mason University and author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years) will headline the Minnesota Symposium on Climate Change at the Earle Brown Center.

[Yeah, that IS a pretty big problem] - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The problem was that the 30,000 solar-power projects installed last year didn’t actually provide much electricity—but cost the government more than $1.4 billion.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama energy policies will hike prices by 20%

Several estimates of the total impact of cap-and-trade have been published, with some estimates as high as $3200 per year per household. The EIA also notes that the bill will exert a negative influence on the economy, reducing the GDP from 2012 to 2030 by 0.2% as energy costs curtail production. It will cost jobs, not create them, and slow or reverse improvements in the American standard of living. In short, it’s a recipe for economic stagnation and misery, in service to a climate-change model that has increasingly been exposed as erroneous and ill-considered. Voters can reasonably ask why they’re being asked to shoulder this kind of pain for a nonexistent cause.