The EPA Cannot Be Trusted to Keep the Lights on

So the EPA is low-balling the impacts of its regulations. Nothing new there—EPA long has underestimated the cost of its regulations. Expensive energy is bad enough; unreliable electricity is worse still. Demand-driven blackouts are a hallmark of developing countries. They are known in America only to Californians, where rolling brownouts have been unfortunate side-effect of silly green energy policies.

In light of these recent, troubling revelations about the EPA’s reliability analysis, the Congress should consider carefully whether the EPA is competent to avoid plunging this country into darkness.

Obama Losing the CBC on Green Jobs - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Here’s Maxine Waters from Hardball last night where she says, “All this talk about the green jobs never materialized.” And she’s shocked about this? It will be interesting to see if there are any “green” ideas in Obama’s jobs proposal that he’s going to get to as soon as his vacation is over. From what I’m reading, I’m hearing roads, schools, and water projects but nothing to do with “green” energy. Stay tuned.

Gas Prices Under Obama - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

But what Bachmann knows, and CNN and the rest of the smarty-pants don’t like to report, is that Obama has been systematically strangling U.S. oil production — from Shell in Alaska to a Canadian pipeline — in order to drive up prices as part of his green American revolution (even as the White House has been rhetorically sympathetic to lower prices).
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If it sounds like the Obamaphiles aren’t very interested in goosing production, you’re right. Warming zealots like high energy prices just fine.