Category: Energy
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How America Will Fail
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc?rel=0]
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Climate Alarmist Says Burn Down Skeptics’ Homes
Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics’ Homes “Let’s start keeping track of them…let’s make them pay” via Infowars. Really?! Ya, really! “We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when…
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A President’s Control of Oil Prices
A new meme is carefully being inserted into society: that a president generally, and Obama specifically, cannot control oil prices. Like all good lies there is just enough truth in this meme in order to not make it laughable. The notion is absolutely true in the short term (Obama cannot make $2.50/gal gas appear overnight,…
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Energy Sec. Wanted High Gas Prices
“Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” — Steven Chu, President Obama’s Secretary or Energy in 2008 via POLITICO. Gas prices are exactly where Obama wants them. Billions invested in bogus and failing technologies. It’s easy to beat up on oil companies, however they average high…
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High Gas Prices Raise Airline Ticket Costs
“[R]ising jet fuel costs put significant cost pressure on the airline industry,” Steve Lott, vice present of communications for Airlines for America told CBSDC. “Regarding fuel, it was the airline industry’s largest expense in 2011, representing 35 percent of total costs. In 2011, the price of jet fuel reached a record high of $3.00 per…
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Himalayan Glaciers Lost No Ice in 10 Years
The authors of the U.N.’s climate policy guide were red-faced two years ago when it was revealed that they had inaccurately forecast that the Himalayan glaciers would melt completely in 25 years, vanishing by the year 2035. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of the Energy…
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Fermilab’s Tevatron Shutting Down
The Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will be shut down later this year after the Batavia-based lab failed to win additional funding from the Obama administration. Once the world’s largest atom smasher — technically, a proton-antiproton collider — the Tevatron was scheduled to cease operations this year with the recent startup of a much…
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$5/gal gas? Yes Says Former Shell Exec
NOTE: This story is a few weeks old. 12/28/2010 Gasoline rationing and $5 pump prices are predicted by 2012 for consumers if U.S. politicians don’t get their act together, a former Shell executive said. … John Hofmeister, a former president at Shell Oil, told the Platts news service that energy shortages and record-high gasoline prices…
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Gas Tax at Work
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The twice-monthly Lundberg Survey has found the price of regular gasoline has risen about nine cents a gallon over three weeks to $3.08. … Lundberg says the highest gas price in the country was recorded in Chicago at $3.35 a gallon. The low, $2.73, was in Salt Lake City, Utah.The survey…