Quadrant Online - Self-effacing Left

Brown claimed in his interview that we are the biggest per capita polluter for any similar country in the world. Leaving aside the inconvenient fact that there are few if any countries relevantly similar to Australia in the world, you would think Brown would be vocally bullish on the carbon price. Not a bit of it. “So higher than $40 a tonne” was the question. “Sorry” was the answer. Brown had become inexplicably hard of hearing – the Howard defence (in his case legitimate). Eventually he replied that he couldn’t say what the figure should be.

I understand why impoverishing policies have to be kept under wraps because I know that they are impoverishing. But they don’t know that. They must think they are good policies. So why be shy about them.

Dutch man builds $1.6 million Noah’s Ark in Biblical proportions (Watch Video) - National People in the News | Examiner.com

So would the ship hold up if the ice in Greenland melts as Al Gore predicted in the film “An Inconvenient Truth?” Huibers told NBC News, “No, I don’t think so.”

Articles: Cash for Pumpers

Clearly, the President's directive is pure politics, intended to placate a restive electorate by temporally driving down the price of oil. And just as cash for clunkers did nothing to increase automobile sales -- it merely drew sales forward by a few months, increasing sales in the summer while reducing them in the fall -- cash for pumpers will do nothing to lower the long-term cost of energy.

New England’s Renewable Energy Mandate: Reality Anyone? — MasterResource

“Onshore wind in New England currently demands between 9-11 cents per KWh, more than twice the wholesale price of natural gas. Offshore wind is even more expensive starting at over 18 cents a KWh. More wind energy in the fuel mix will cause upward pressure on energy prices for the life of the power purchase agreements.”

- Lisa Linowes (below)