Europe’s lazy oil protesters « The Daily Bayonet

What is it about oil that attracts only lazy Europeans to protest against it?

In the UK the protesters are young. Mostly gap-year students who wouldn’t get a summer job, they sit on road, walk on stilts and inanely plead for the world to turn off the tap. They don’t have a suggestion for how to replace 93% of the world’s energy, but they’re hippies and lazy so we expect meaningless posturing, not ideas.

Flashback To 2008 : Candidates Views On Global Warming | Real Science

Of the four candidates, only one gave an intelligent answer. No wonder the press hated her.

Weatherization Went Awry, Audit Shows - NYTimes.com

Money provided in the stimulus bill for making buildings more energy-efficient is finally starting to flow, the Department of Energy’s inspector general says. But in a report released Tuesday, his office says that in some cases it has been badly spent.

An audit by the inspector general focused on some work done by the Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, one of 35 agencies in Illinois that are expected to share $91 million over three years. The audit looked at 15 homes and found that 12 failed final inspection “because of substandard workmanship.” In some cases, technicians who tuned up gas-fired heating systems did so improperly, so that they emitted carbon monoxide “at higher than acceptable levels.”

Do Voters Overwhelmingly Support Clean Energy Candidates? | GlobalWarming.org

The Huffington Post and NRDC’s Action Fund say yes, and are using this poll to edge congressional-hopefuls towards committed support for green energy.

The poll was run in sixteen different states by Public Policy Polling. The results for the different states are here. The results confirm the skepticism many have of public polling—the framing of the question has an enormous effect on the expressed opinions.