The Reference Frame: Herman Cain to Wall Street commies: blame yourself

For some time, I didn't know whether Herman Cain, an ex-boss of Godfather's Pizza, was a viable presidential candidate but he obviously is one which means that people who think he's sensible shouldn't be afraid to say so! I am just saying so. ;-)

Hey, Let’s Loan Solyndra Some More Money! - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

That last line begs the question, what do the OMB people think about the rest of the portfolio? Why not release all the e-mails?

Pipeline? We don’t need no stinkin’ pipeline | Grist

An analysis by Professor Michael McElroy at Harvard indicates that running a car on wind-generated electricity could cost less than the equivalent of 80-cent-a-gallon gasoline.

Bill McKibben on tar sands, Obama, geoengineering and population growth | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We'll all be carrying signs from the president's last election campaign. No attacks on him, just his own words. "It's time to end the tyranny of oil"; "In my administration, the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal". The tag line will be something like: "If you didn't mean it, you shouldn't have said it. Stop the pipeline".
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BM: I just spent a day with the guy in China running their CCS programme and after a day of him explaining it all to me I asked him what percentage of China's coal plant emissions will be captured and buried by 2030. He said 2%. I realised then that I probably didn't need to have spent a day talking to him.