Everyone in the Obama Administration seems to be infected with the same disease: If we repeat this bulls*** long enough and loud enough, it just might come true! And never let facts get in the way of a really cool story! The most recent example is Jon Wellinghoff, the new Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has jurisdiction over utilities and pipelines. They | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by EPU On March 31st, a bill co-sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-People’s Republic of Beverly Hills) and Edward Markey (D-MA) was filed in the House. Called the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), a more appropriate title might be The Let’s-Hogtie-the-American-Economy-and-Throw-It-In-the-Ditch Act of 2009. Waxman chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Markey leads the House | Read More »
Tomorrow, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will be deposed in a civil proceeding stemming from the City’s (and Nagin’s) relationship with a vendor. There is sworn testimony that the Mayor has accepted gifts and trips from the vendor, the provider of a trouble-plagued crime surveillance camera system. Nagin to face questioning Monday about crime cameras and gifts The examination, to be held at City Hall, | Read More »
H/T GlobalWarming.org. Kowalski’s gonna love this. From a Washington Post article by Christina Hoff Summers: What’s good for women’s basketball will be good for nuclear physics. To most Americans, that statement will sound odd. To President Obama, it apparently does not. In an October letter to women’s advocacy groups, he declared that Title IX, the law that requires universities to give equal funding to men’s | Read More »
The EPA, in a Friday announcement, declared that six “greenhouse gases”, including carbon dioxide, are “pollutants” worthy of regulation. Quoth Bruce Niles, a Sierra Clubber at HuffPo (find it yourself, if you’re that interested): “Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is now obligated to issue rules regulating global warming pollution from all major sources, including cars and coal-fired power plants. The law specifically states that | Read More »
From our friends at the Institute for Energy Research. (This story ran on Fox News this morning, but crammed into a two-minute time slot with few details.) It seems that Spain’s foray into wind energy has been President Obama’s example that we should follow on this side of the pond. “But wait-a-hold-it, how’s it working for Spain?”, you might ask (if you were a right-wing | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Neil No joke. H/T Drudge Why does this story: Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates (Photo: CRI.cn) BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) — Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday. The Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China’s | Read More »
I’m a tad sensitive about people who tell me things about my business in an authoritative tone, when they don’t know the first thing that they’re talking about. Last year, I was trying to explain to my MIL’s friend Ernie, a Western Electric retiree, why gasoline prices were so high. I mentioned that among the costs that oil companies must cover is the cost of | Read More »
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s road show made its New Orleans stop yesterday. The Secretary extended the public comment period on the Minerals Management Service’s Five Year Leasing Plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), a Plan that would potentially open areas outside the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico and Alaska to oil and gas exploration for the first time since 1981. A copy of | Read More »
The other day, my boss made an interesting observation. Six months ago, ExxonMobil recorded annual net income of $40 billion. It was widely considered, even by some in these august pages, to be outrageous. Bear in mind, that profit was gained lawfully, and it was either be returned to shareholders (98.5% of which are you, me, and our retirement funds, and not XOM executives) as | Read More »
Democrats question proposed oil and gas fees and taxes From Energycurrent.com, H/T www.ocsbbs.com The group, led by Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, and including fellow Texas Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green, Charlie Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, made their pitch late Tuesday, a day before the House Budget Committee was set to take the first steps in considering the Obama administration’s $3.6 trillion budget proposal. | Read More »
Last July, I introduced the RedState community to Paul Hilliard: my boss, my role model and my friend. This Friday, April 3, in Washington, D.C., Paul will be honored as one of eleven recipients of the 2009 Horatio Alger Award. The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. bears the name of the renowned author Horatio Alger, Jr., whose tales of overcoming adversity through unyielding | Read More »
Oh, please. Do we really want to base this judgment on the rate of public corruption convictions? Especially when Chicago politics have been dominated since time immemorial by a notoriously corrupt Democratic machine? One that controls the prosecutors, the cops, and the juries? But for genuine, savory, infused-in-the-gumbo style public venality, Louisiana still has Illinois, and most of America, beat. Ranked according to corruption convictions | Read More »
Gov. Bobby Jindal reeled off some pretty good one-liners in his speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee. Imagine that: a self-deprecating politician! Cue the attack dogs, harassing lawsuits, and James Carville. Jindal: Criticism of Obama is OK (AP Photo/The News-Star, Arely D. Castillo) “I have just learned that because of President Obama’s opposition to torture, it is now illegal to show my speech to | Read More »
This morning, bids will be opened for Lease Sale 208, an offering of Federal mineral leases in the central Gulf of Mexico. Early indications are that a relatively low number of blocks have received bids, and there are relatively few blocks with multiple bids. This morning’s Lease Sale 208 will offer 6,200 blocks in the central Gulf of Mexico, covering more than 33.5 million acres | Read More »
Meet The Obama Energy Strategy: cripple the fossil fuel industry with a goal of curtailing production/consumption with high prices while boosting the competitiveness of highly-subsidized alternatives. It’s called Central Planning.
Read More »It sounds as though the New York Times agrees with me: relatively low product prices (coupled with, I maintain, a hostile Democratic administration) are setting the stage for a shortage of domestic natural gas in the future. And by “in the future”, that’s not ten or twenty years from now. The NYT says 2010, and I’d bet that’s not far wrong. Certainly we’ll have a | Read More »
Mr. Anthony Jones of New Orleans may be available in the near future. Such is life in a Banana Republic. Anthony Jones, a constant source of controversy during his 18 months as [New Orleans'] technology chief, now stands accused of taking gratuities and doctoring invoices in an audit commissioned by his bosses at City Hall, yet he still heads a city department and makes $86,000 | Read More »
US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks In my business, and I’ll wager in your business too, you read contracts. Carefully. Because the contract defines the relationship between the two parties, and signifies a meeting of the minds. If you screw up, and the contract doesn’t mean what you thought it meant, well, shame on you. Back in the ’90s, oil and gas prices | Read More »
To make room in the Oval Office for a real treasure, a Zulu Coconut: “The Zulu Coconut is one of the most prized items to obtain all Mardi Gras season. Now Obama has got one!!!” WASHINGTON — On Sunday morning at 9:37, Charles Hamilton Jr., president of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, and his first lady, Patricia Wade Hamilton, disembarked the Amtrak Crescent | Read More »
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