GM’s Push for Higher Gas Taxes

One wonders whether GM has taken the lead on higher gas taxes because its bailout ties to the feds have created a more government-oriented corporate culture. But regardless of that; when carmakers push to raise to raise the cost of the very substance that fuels their products, we have a serious problem. They’re serving the government rather than the public, and that does not bode well either for the vehicles they’ll be producing or for the policies they’ll be pushing.

Kevin Williamson: ‘Disinherit the Wind’ - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Mr. Pickens is trying to sell Congress something called the Pickens Plan, a madcap, Rube Goldberg political contraption designed to appeal to the worst elements of American politics — corporate self-dealing, xenophobia, economic illiteracy — while directing billions of dollars of subsidies into businesses in which Mr. Pickens has a financial interest.

C3: The Left/Liberal Bizarro, Anti-Science Hyperbole Continues: Lefty Blogger Romm Calls CO2 Growth "Super-Exponential"

Willis does an excellent job of explaining real, empirical science to Romm in regards to CO2, and below we add a few more charts that further expose the lunacy of typical left/liberal/progressive/Democrat anti-science, which Romm exemplifies.

Don’t know and don’t care if it will actually lower the temperature | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Senator JOYCE: Just out of curiosity, Dr Nigel Ray calls it ‘climate change modelling’. So, of all the other things, did you model how much the climate was going to change; and, if so, how much will it change?