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Twitter / boonepickens: Who needs OPEC #oil when you ...

Who needs OPEC #oil when you have good neighbors like #Canada and #Mexico? #wgameet @westgov

Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: Per today's headline ...

Per today's headline http://fxn.ws/15DW3lE  World Bank dropped qualms over people freezing to death http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/kim-says-world-bank-can-t-reject-coal-if-people-freeze.html … via @foxbusiness

Forget the idea of the GOP’s Demise; Consider the Political Suicide Democrats are Committing | RedState

Mainstream media pundits predictably wring their hands over the breakup of the GOP and conservatives, but what is egregiously overlooked is how Democrats and far-left liberals are committing political suicide whenever they defend their pursuit of unpopular agendas with unsupportable assertions.

The issue of global warming, brought up by President Obama three weeks ago amid a sea of administration scandals, is a case study of this problem. What unsupportable assertion keeps this particular dead horse walking?

Pot Growers Costing Canada $500 Million in Power Theft : Greentech Media

It’s no secret that it takes a lot of energy to grow blueberry kush, purple sour diesel, voodoo or any of the dozens of other potent strains of marijuana available in North America.

In the U.S. alone, indoor cannabis growing uses about $5 billion in power annually, mostly to power the irrigation system and powerful lights beneath which the plants grow.

Many indoor pot growers are not paying their electric bills in full, likely because they are outlaws in the eyes of the Canadian or U.S. federal governments. Many marijuana growers mask their operations by stealing some or all of the power needed to sustain the grow lights.

Twitter / RichardTol: Accepted for publication: Subsidy ...

Accepted for publication: Subsidy on electric vehicles should be 50,000 euro to meet gov't target for market share http://ideas.repec.org/p/esr/wpaper/wp437.html …