Another Bad Week For King Barack I

American Black Vulture Coragyps atratus, one of the species covered under the treaty. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Well, last week was pretty interesting, wasn’t it? What with Benghazi, the IRS and DOJ v AP, it was not a stellar week for the administration, when the MSM starts talking about Watergate, a Democratic president might want to think rather carefully about the road forward.

Or maybe it’s too late for that, already. Now that the big three are out there, people are starting to talk about other problems, and we all know that “Bad Good things come in threes” or is it “The third time’s the charm”.

Here’s the next three scandals coming up via Marita Noon

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EPA Favors Friendlies

We see favoritism in the EPAs treatment of friendly groups vs. a “concerted campaign to make life more difficult for those deemed unfriendly.” A few days ago, the Washington Examiner reported on the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) review of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy. The results are shocking.

Chris Horner, Senior Fellow at CEI, told me: “The IRS and EPA revelations are near-identical uses of the state to enable allies and disadvantage opponents. Granting or denying tax-exempt status can make or break a group. The same is true with FOIA fee waivers being tossed like Mardi Gras beads at greens, and denied to opponents of a bigger regulatory state. Fees for FOIA document productions can run into the six-figures.” [...]

Wind farms get a pass

We see the same “startling disparity in treatment” in the way the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act is applied. Under both acts, the death of a single bird—without a permit—is illegal. On May 14, the AP reported on an investigation that showed that nearly 600,000 birds are killed each year by wind farms, including an average of about one golden eagle a month in Converse County, WY—which the AP calls: “one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind.” California’s Altamont Pass wind farms “kill more than 60 per year”—making it the “industry’s deadliest location.”

Yet, “so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted—even though every death is a criminal violation. The Obama administration has charged oil companies for drowning birds in their waste pits, and power companies for electrocuting birds on power lines. But the administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind-energy company, even those that flout the law repeatedly.” [...]

Propping up green energy

We see similar favoritism across the bigger energy spectrum. Despite President Obama’s frequent touting of increased domestic oil and gas production, “federal government policies are suppressing development,” says Kathleen Sgamma, Vice-President of Government and Public Affairs for the Western Energy Alliance (WEA). “Unfortunately, the federal government is standing in the way of increasing production of valuable energy resources that could spur further job creation, economic growth, and energy security.” To support her comments, the WEA press release offers the following numbers: “From FY2008 to FY2011 the Bureau of Land Management offered 81% less acreage, which has resulted in a 44% drop in leasing revenue, down from $356 million to $201 million. Nationwide, royalty and leasing revenue have declined 12% from $4.2 billion to $3.7 billion.” Meanwhile production and revenue on private lands increased.

Additionally, despite numerous reports regarding the positive economic impacts and environmental safety of the Keystone pipeline it has been continuously delayed—now for more than 1700 days. On Thursday, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee passed a bill that, according to theWSJ, “effectively pushes through approval of the 875-mile pipeline by eliminating the need for Mr. Obama to issue a special permit for it.” Transportation committee chair Rep. Bill Shuster said: “After more than four years of bureaucratic delays, this bill will finally allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been studied more than any other project of its kind.”

While federal policies are suppressing traditional energy that is effective, efficient and economical, they are propping up projects that have been repeatedly found to be failures—but that benefit Democratic donors.

Read more on each of these at No Better for Obama Next Week, Either – Marita Noon – Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary.

As you can imagine, these scandals are not the big headline makers like messing with the AP. I would argue though, in a country that has the worst employment situation in the last 40+ years, they are at least as important.

The skewing of information publicly has obvious impact on the decision-making process, especially for the public-there’s no reason we should have to commission our own research when it’s already be done. But getting it out of the government costing more in fees than the research is worth is just stupid, especially when the cronies can get it for free.

It’s always amazing how the environmental lobby shuts up when one of its pet projects impacts another, isn’t it? Either the eagles are endangered or they’re not. If the are, the windmills owners and operators need to be prosecuted, like anybody else would be. Or they’re not, in which case they need to be removed from the endangered species act. When these stories come up, it always amazes me how twisted these laws have become since they were proposed by hunters (yes, they were) to make sure there would always be game. And further the energy generated by windmills is of very marginal utility anyway, it can’t be used (almost ever) for base power because the wind is just too undependable.

I don’t have much to add to this, “Unfortunately, the federal government is standing in the way of increasing production of valuable energy resources that could spur further job creation, economic growth, and energy security.” except that the last time I gassed up, I paid $4.09 a gallon, and America only works well with cheap energy.

Still another bad week coming for Obama’s anti-American agenda

 

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Thomas Sowell — Shepherds and Sheep

John-stuart-mill 1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday we talked about how the NHS in Britain is quite literally killing British subjects and why it’s coming soon to America as well. We also extrapolated that the information in that article also applies equally well to our welfare system.

Also yesterday, Geoffrey Sales, writing on  All Along the Watchtower  speaking on the weaknesses in the current churches, said this.

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There’s the root of it. We know best. Who is the ‘we’? It is white, middle class Western folk who take a liberal view of how to read Holy Writ. Shall we stop there a moment? So, most people who have ever lived as Christians, and indeed most alive who still do, know nowt compared to this small elite?  Whence came this gnosis and to them alone? What everyone used to, and most still, believe, it to be set aside – why? To that we shall come next.

On which I commented

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This is another one of those statements that we can with profit, extrapolate from the specific to the general. Who is the “we” indeed and according to whom, and what if you’re wrong? Applies not only to our churches but with overwhelming force to our governments, as well.

Again like we said yesterday, when we hand our individual sovereignty to someone else, we lose control of our, and our loved ones lives. People make mistakes, all of us do. But when we make a mistake, we affect mostly us, and maybe our loved ones but, when we cede control of our lives to the government as both we and the Brits have done (or are doing) we allow them to make mistakes that adversely affect millions of people. Do you really think that someone who is so ashamed of his grades that he spends millions of dollars to hide them is really going to care what his decisions do to you and your family?

To expand on this theme more here is Thomas Sowell.

John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.”

Professor Sunstein is undoubtedly correct that “people make a lot of mistakes.” Most of us can look back over our own lives and see many mistakes, including some that were very damaging.

What Cass Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are going to override our mistaken decisions for us. That is the key flaw in the theory and agenda of the left.

Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.

Yes, we all make mistakes. But do governments not make bigger and more catastrophic mistakes?

Think about the First World War, from which nations on both sides ended up worse off than before, after an unprecedented carnage that killed substantial fractions of whole younger generations and left millions starving amid the rubble of war.

Think about the Holocaust, and about other government slaughters of even more millions of innocent men, women and children under Communist governments in the Soviet Union and China.

Even in the United States, government policies in the 1930s led to crops being plowed under, thousands of little pigs being slaughtered and buried, and milk being poured down sewers, at a time when many Americans were suffering from hunger and diseases caused by malnutrition.

The Great Depression of the 1930s, in which millions of people were plunged into poverty in even the most prosperous nations, was needlessly prolonged by government policies now recognized in retrospect as foolish and irresponsible.

One of the key differences between mistakes that we make in our own lives and mistakes made by governments is that bad consequences force us to correct our own mistakes. But government officials cannot admit to making a mistake without jeopardizing their whole careers.

Can you imagine a President of the United States saying to the mothers of America, “I am sorry your sons were killed in a war I never should have gotten us into”?

What is even more relevant to Professor Sunstein’s desire to have our betters tell us how to live our lives, is that so many oppressive and even catastrophic government policies were cheered on by the intelligentsia.

Back in the 1930s, for example, totalitarianism was considered to be “the wave of the future” by much of the intelligentsia, not only in the totalitarian countries themselves but in democratic nations as well.

The Soviet Union was being praised to the skies by such literary luminaries as George Bernard Shaw in Britain and Edmund Wilson in America, while literally millions of people were being systematically starved to death by Stalin and masses of others were being shipped off to slave labor camps.

Even Hitler and Mussolini had their supporters or apologists among intellectuals in the Western democracies, including at one time Lincoln Steffens and W.E.B. Du Bois.

An even larger array of the intellectual elite in the 1930s opposed the efforts of Western democracies to respond to Hitler’s massive military buildup with offsetting military defense buildups to deter Hitler or to defend themselves if deterrence failed.

“Disarmament” was the mantra of the day among the intelligentsia, often garnished with the suggestion that the Western democracies should “set an example” for other nations — as if Nazi Germany or imperial Japan was likely to follow their example.

Too many among today’s intellectual elite see themselves as our shepherds and us as their sheep. Tragically, too many of us are apparently willing to be sheep, in exchange for being taken care of, being relieved of the burdens of adult responsibility and being supplied with “free” stuff paid for by others.

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Energy Monday

The status of nuclear power globally (click image for legend) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Lot’s going on, so let’s get started.

 

From Maley’s Energy Blog

 

• State Department issues its environmental report on the Keystone XL Pipeline.
• White House energy advisor warns of Sequester-related permitting delays.
• Trial of BP, Transocean and Halliburton begins in New Orleans.
• Shell suspends Arctic drilling plans for 2013.
• The New York Times suspends its Green Blog.
  
• Bobby Jindal suspends Louisiana’s Mullet Task Force.

Thoughts and comments below the fold.

Keystone XL Pipeline

The State Department’s report is nothing like a green-light to build Keystone XL; it is merely one ticket-punch in the direction of approval. (RedState’s Moe Lane has already blogged about it here.)

The report acknowledges that development of tar sands in Alberta would create greenhouse gases but makes clear that other methods to transport the oil — including rail, trucks and barges — also pose a risk to the environment

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Sequester Delays

The automatic budget cuts under the impending federal budget sequestration will adversely affect federal energy activities, warned Heather Zichal, US President Barack Obama’s chief energy and environmental policy advisor.

Oil and gas producers should expect additional delays in permit application processing and regulatory decisions, she said during a Feb. 27 seminar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

 

Read the rest at the link above.

 

Then there is this from Steven Haywood writing in the Power Line Blog

 

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the fruit-juice vegan energy set.  Where to begin?  How about Japan, which went through the entirely predictable cycle with regard to its nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster of two years ago.  You can follow the cycle in the hilarious New York Times headlines:

Japan Sets Policy to Phase Out Nuclear Power Plants by 2040 (Sept. 12, 2012)

Then, five days later:

Japan, Under Pressure, Backs Off Plan to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040(September 19, 2012)

Turns out someone had a calculator, looked at the cost, and started saying, “never mind.”  And so just five days ago:

Japan to Begin Restarting Idled Nuclear Plants, Leader Says.

“Still, by making the promise in front of the Diet, Mr. Abe indicated in the strongest way yet that he planned to move ahead with a campaign pledge to reverse his predecessor’s hopes that Japan would begin weaning itself off nuclear energy.”

At the other end of the Eurasian land mass, Germany, which has no nuclear power plants exposed to tsunami risk, says it intends to continue with its plans to shut down its nuclear power plants over the next decade just to be safe.  You never know when you might get a land tsunami, like that old Saturday Night Live land shark.

So how is Germany going to make up the power gap?  According to Bloomberg News, the old-fashioned way—with new coal-fired power plants.  Another triumph for the climate campaign!

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[Meanwhile in the US]

—Duke Energy, whose corporatist former CEO Jim Rogers plumped for the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, “loaned” $10 million to the Democratic National Committee for the Charlotte convention last summer.  The money was called a “loan” last summer so Democrats could claim their convention was being put on without any evil corporate support.  But now that the election is over it turns out the DNC won’t be repaying the “loan,” and Duke shareholders will have to take the hit.  Can Duke rehire Rogers so he can be fired again, or at least take this out of his bonuses and stock options?

—A new study just out from researchers at Harvard (can’t get any more establishment-certified than Harvard, can you?) concludes that wind power potential is consistently overestimated:

 

Continue reading Chronicles of Ineptitude

 

And just for fun, also from Power Line Blog a couple of quotes that seem very apropos to the denizens of Washington lately

 

About Baldwin (1936):

 

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

 

And this bit about Chamberlain, from early 1938, applies perfectly to Obama:

 

When we have the Prime Minister here, what is the good of worrying about the Foreign Secretary?  What is the point of crying out for the moon when you have the sun, when you have the bright orb of day in whose refulgent beams all the lesser luminaries hide their radiance?

 

Both by, of course, Winston S. Churchill

 

HEH!

 

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Politics, Climate, Dishonor, Fraud, and a Bit on Education

Politics and Dishonor

Global Cooling/Global Warming/Climate Change/Globull Grifters

Japan’s ‘Cool Hand Luke’ moment for surface temperature

Some say scientists can’t agree on Earth’s temperature changes

Each year, four international science institutions compile temperature data from thousands of stations around the world and make independent judgments about whether the year was warmer or cooler than average. “The official records vary slightly because of subtle differences in the way we analyze the data,” said Reto Ruedy, climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “But they also agree extraordinarily well.”

All four records show peaks and valleys in sync with each other. All show rapid warming in the past few decades. All show the last decade has been the warmest on record.

In sync? Weellll, not quite. Japan apparently hasn’t ‘got their mind right‘ yet as the graph shows:

Continue reading Japan’s ‘Cool Hand Luke’ moment for surface temperature

Education

I’m not going to talk as much today about education but, we will be coming back to it. For today a follow-up from yesterday, if you followed the links at the bottom, you’ve seen this, if not it’s probably new to you. This site was new to me, and I spent a couple of hours over there last night. It’s a quite wonderful site that Miss has built. Of course, you know what a sucker I am for anybody who believes in personal responsibility. I hope we see her over here quite a lot, and she is on my list already. Her article I referenced yesterday has to do with quality vs. cost in higher education, to call the conclusions she cites counterintuitive would be understating the case. Here’s a sample

Tuition and Quality Don’t Mix, but BA’s and Bartending Do

Right now we’re in a fallow period in the academic calendar: most students and faculty have arrived back on campus from their December-January vacation, and are busy putting on their critical thinking caps to figure out where best to decamp for Spring Break in a few weeks’ time. Cancun? Florida? Gstaad? It’s important to have that extra “me time” before the hectic dash to Commencement, that end-of term free-for-all when scheduled, spontaneous protests take place and the bleak reality that nobody will care about your race, class, or gender after graduation begins to set in.

Not planning a spring break for myself, I turned to two remarkable reports from the frontiers of higher ed research. It defies credulity to me that the release of these documents was not timed to coincide. One, from the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, came in the form of a paper delivered at the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges and Universities and dropped this bombshell:

there’s little correlation between how much colleges spend on education and how much their students will benefit. The amount institutions spend per student can range from $9,000 to $50,000, but there’s little difference between the teaching practices and experiences they provide that improve student learning.

Continue reading Tuition and Quality Don’t Mix, but BA’s and Bartending Do

As near as I can tell so far, her whole site is of this quality, by all means pay her a visit, you be addicted.

Have a great Friday

 

 

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Of Gas Booms & Engine Damage: Energy Update

World Marketed Energy Use by Fuel Type – History & Projections, 1980 – 2030. Data sources: History: Energy Information Administration (EIA), International Energy Annual 2004 (May-July 2006), web site http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea. Projections: EIA, System for the Analysis of Global Energy Markets (2007). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

It’s time we looked at a couple of energy stories I guess. First up, from Power Line Blog Steven Hayward talks about how fracking is driving an economic boom in Pennsylvania, while the nannies in New York are keeping their population poor. And just in case you were worrying about it, Gasland is just about as truthful as A Triumph of the Will although Leni Riefenstahl was a far better filmmaker.

 

The kicker on the gas boom is that we’re exporting coal to Europe, that makes it a win-win. Particularly as our railroads are one of the most efficient movers of bulk commodities ever dreamed of by man. Here’s Steve.

 

WHAT A GAS BOOM LOOKS LIKE IN MOTION

The good folks at the Energy Information Administration have produced this stunning 22-second video that shows the boom in natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania from 2005 to April 2012.  While you watch this explosion of prosperity for the Keystone state and contemplate with glee the anguish this is causing environmentalists, keep in mind that next-door New York has continued to ban most natural gas exploration and production, which not only deprives the Empire state of economic activity, but has bid up the prices of gas leases on private land in Pennsylvania.  Think of it as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s wealth-transfer-to-Pennsylvania policy.

Meanwhile, the gas boom is not just causing heartburn to Green Weenies here in the U.S.  According to a new report just out from the International Energy Agency, the natural gas boom in America is—are your ready?—leading to increased coal consumption in Europe, some of it additional imports of cheap American coal.  The IEA predicts European coal consumption will rise by 10 percent or more over the next decade.  Double-win!  Here’s the key slide from the IEA report, and savor the headline, “US shale gas switches on coal in Europe”:

Click to embiggen

 

Continue reading What a Gas Boom Looks Like in Motion | Power Line.

 

In another matter, Maggie over at Maggie’s Notebook reminds us that if you drive a 2011 or older vehicle by BMW, Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Honda, Kia, Mercedes, or Volkswagen the use of E15 Gasoline will void your warranty. She does a very good job of explaining why, so I won’t go into it, I will add though that last I heard even E10 will void the warranty on lawnmowers with engines from Briggs and Stratton. Use it at your own risk, but it will reduce your mileage so if you like real efficiency stay away from the garbage. Do watch the linked video, it’s very good. Here’s Maggie.

 

Here’s some information for you to consider if your vehicle is older than a 2012 model. According to the information in the following video, the new E15 gasoline is in some gas stations now, and is surely coming to one near you. At least ten car companies are now saying they will not cover any claims of damage due to this fuel, due to E15, and it’s going to void your warranty. Some of those companies mentioned in the video which will not cover fuel-related claims are BMW, Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Honda, Kia, Mercedes, and Volkswagen. These companies also are saying the use of E15 will void fuel-related warranties.

AAA is calling on the EPA to suspend the sale of E15.

Lauren Fix, the “car coach,” from AOL Auto makes these points:

• E15 is approved by the EPA and being pushed by the Government. AAA says do not use it.

• There wasn’t a lot of testing done on E15

• E15 is 15% ethanol. E-85, also in gas stations is 85% ethanol. Both E15 and E-85 are fine for flex-fuel vehicles, but there are few of them on the streets. E15 and E-85 are a danger to all other vehicles, and you risk your warranty being voided.

• There is “phase separation” when the ethanol merges with gasoline at the pump. The ethanol is heavier and goes to the bottom of the gas tank. The vehicle draws the ethanol first. Ethanol is so corrosive that it damages fuel systems and engines. When the ethanol is gone, the gasoline is drawn. There is proof that it damages fuel lines, emission systems and engines.

• Companies which manufacture fuel lines say they have brand new vehicles with rotted-out fuel systems.

• E15 Destroys Gaskets due to the corrosiveness of ethanol

• E15 is made 3 octane levels lower, 87 octane is actually 84 octane – which damages your engine because it “detonates.”

• A lot of money is changing hands. Corn subsidies are huge.

• Farmers are growing more corn fewer other agricultural products, so groceries are going up. Remember the skyrocketing price of tortillas in Mexico? Consumers will be hurt badly in severa areas.

• E15 is highly corrosive – so corrosive it has to be distributed to the gas stations in stainless steel tanks.

• From E15, you get less than one-third-energy per-gallon of gasoline that has ethanol in it compared to regular gasoline that doesn’t have ethanol. In otherwords, you go a shorter distance using ethanol. It means you are filling up at the pump more often, and you risk costly damages to your engine.

• E15 may appear to be cheaper, but it’s not and you risk costly repairs and a voided warranty

From AAA:

In June, the EPA approved the use of E15, and a handful of gas stations in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas have begun to sell this fuel. There is a strong likelihood that retailers will market E15 in additional states soon unless regulators take immediate action to protect consumers.

Nearly all of the gasoline sold in the United States today is E10, which contains up to ten percent ethanol, primarily produced from corn. The ethanol industry has lobbied hard to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline as a way to increase sales and help meet the Renewable Fuels Standard.

AAA’s concern with E15 is not about ethanol. In fact, AAA believes that ethanol-blended fuels have the potential to save Americans money and reduce the nation’s dependency on fossil fuels. The problem is that available research, including the EPA’s exhaust emissions tests, is not sufficient evidence that E15 is safe to use in most vehicles.

The ethanol industry’s response to reports of damage caused by E15 is that it is the most tested fuel in the EPA’s history. The caveat to this assertion is that while the agency did test E15, their research focused primarily on exhaust emissions and associated components such as catalytic converters. While this research was consistent with the EPA’s mission, it never fully examined whether E15 might damage engines and fuel systems

If the video disappears or will not play, view it here.
E15 Ethanol Warning (Video)

Continue reading E15 Gas Approved by EPA Slammed by AAA – Carmakers Will Not Honor Warranties | Maggie’s Notebook.

 

It just works so well when we run this country for the benefit of special interests, doesn’t it? Well, you’ve been warned, if you have a yen to spend several thousand dollars out of your own pocket so that you can think your saving the environment while subsidizing a corn farmer, Heck, go for it. We all know we can’t fix stupid.

 

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FYI: Nebraska Tech Site

I just thought I’d mention in passing that I just took my company site live. It’s not done, much to do yet but I would appreciate it, if you took a look around and tell me either there or here what you think. You will find that the store is a truncated Amazon catalog, it will get better, as I have time.

I intend it to be a more focused (on electrical and energy) than this. Maybe I have the discipline to do that.

For the moment, the articles are some appropriate ones that I have crossposted from here. Enjoy.

Here is the link: Nebraska Tech. Blogspot.com