The Obama Weatherization Scam

RUSH: So this is a bunch of make-work designed to make Obama and the left look good, like they care and like they're doing things to help people with global warming and so forth. And there are no standards to it; you've gotta make different... Well, you have to do things differently for every bureaucracy you're working with.

Britons worry about heavy energy bills this winter | TopNews United Kingdom

The prospect of higher energy bills from their suppliers this winter has started disturbing Britons, a newly conducted survey revealed.

EU Referendum: Death by indifference

And that's the way scares usually end – with a whimper rather than a bang. The public gets bored with it and moves on, leaving the scare promoters or "pushers" to soldier on by themselves. It moves from being a participatory to a spectator sport, and then it dies.

The fascinating thing is that the scientists and the politicians are the last to pick up on the change. But then, the final part of the scare cycle is the "regulatory" phase where the politicians move in to make laws to deal with the imagined threat.

This is the most dangerous phase – the one that does the most damage.

China's green car subsidy program fails to boost sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles — Autoblog Green

According to a report coming from the Global Times of China, the country's green car subsidy program has yet to to boost sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles. In fact, drawing from figures reported by the China Association of Auto Manufacturers (CAAM), the Global Times points out that the ratio of vehicles sold with engines 1.6 liters in size or less, dropped below last year's average for a fifth consecutive month.