Thursday, September 17, 2009

US Primary Energy Superpower — MasterResource
In fact, writing in a recent NY Times op-ed piece, Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services and ambassador to the United States, called Saudi Arabia “the world’s energy superpower.”

If producing 5.2% of the world’s primary energy makes it THE superpower, then what does one call the country that produces 15.5% of the world’s primary energy? One would call that country the United States of America. The US produces more energy than all of Europe (10.4% of world primary energy production), all of Eurasia (the former Soviet Union – 14.9%), China (14.4%) or the entire Middle East (13.9%).
Cap and tax: It's a doozy - Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009
Pushing cap-and-trade while hiding the costs is neither open nor transparent, but it works on members of Congress. Reps. Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter voted for this massive tax hike. Shea-Porter wrote in July, "This bill will not raise household electricity rates by thousands of dollars."

Oops. Too bad she, and we, can't get a do-over.
Climate Costs: Plenty of Guesses, Few Answers - Environmental Capital - WSJ
The health-care fight may have dominated Washington in recent weeks, but the battle over cap-and-trade hasn’t gone away. Since that has become a fight over how much the program will cost, it’s interesting—if disconcerting—to note that no one really knows.
Scoop: UN With Almost $5 Billion Shortfall [claims that if we buy into climate fraud, we'll have fewer natural disasters]
Poor rains in Eastern African have produced crises in the areas of food, nutrition, water and disease among others, leaving some 24 million people in need of aid – up from 17 million last year – in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia and parts of Uganda.

“That’s another powerful reason why we’ve been arguing that a climate change deal in Copenhagen is so essential,” he said referring to the UN conference in December that will be seeking a successor greenhouse gas reduction pact to the Kyoto Protocol. “Because we think those trends are bound to intensify, in fact they will intensify.”

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