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Decision to Tap SPR Misguided
A technician works on one of the Reserve's wellheads. Photo provided by U.S. Department of Energy. Today, the president has decided to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic...
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Renewable Energy’s Big Secret
Climate change has again moved to center stage. In his State of the Union address, President Obama stated, “But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.”...
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Climate Change: Key Mission for the US Navy?
The United States Navy has embraced climate change ideology. In an interview with the Boston Globe on March 9, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the Navy’s top officer in the Pacific, stated that climate...
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Random Gleanings from the Energy Patch
In addition to my interesting conversation with EPA Advisor Bob Sussman which was covered in a separate post here, there were a number of other interesting findings that emanated from various meetings...
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China Can’t Appreciate Obama-Biden Vision for Fisker in Delaware
For weeks now the buzz about Fisker Automotive, the latest Department of Energy-funded clunker, is that two China-based automotive companies – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (which owns Volvo) and...
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GAO: Bad Publicity Scaring Prospects Away from Stimulus Money
The publicity surrounding President Obama’s failed strategy to stimulate the economy, by putting clueless manager Steven Chu in charge of the Department of Energy’s lending activities, has become so...
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Al Gore, DiCaprio AWOL as Fisker Circles the Drain
[UPDATE: On March 29, Reuters reported that Fisker hired a bankruptcy attorney.] Fisker Automotive, which has received $193 million of a $529 million Department of Energy stimulus loan guarantee and...
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Incompetence and Dysfunction Rampant at Energy Department
“Ineptocracy” is a new Internet-popularized word in wide circulation, which came to my inbox with the following definition: “A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the...
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The Green Enemies of Humanity, Science and the Truth
Among the greatest liars on Earth today is the international organization called Friends of the Earth (FOE). It has engaged in the most scurrilous fear-mongering for decades, along with Greenpeace, the...
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Obama’s Electric Vehicle Loans Program is a Failure
Mark it down: the report this month about the shutdown of Vehicle Production Group – beneficiary of a $50-million stimulus loan from the Department of Energy – means the Advanced Technology Vehicles...
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A123 and Fisker Fire at Each Other as Taxpayers Run for Cover
As if taxpayers didn’t already have to stomach enough corruption, incompetence and dysfunction in the government’s promotion of “green” energy, two past exemplars failure have returned to discharge...
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Details Revealed of Fisker’s Waste and Mismanagement
As NLPC has covered Fisker Automotive’s catastrophic flop over the last few years since it was granted a $529-million taxpayer-guaranteed loan from the Department of Energy, one big question that...
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Obama’s Words on Carbon Dioxide, Drilling Contradict His Actions
In his much-hyped speech Tuesday, President Obama promised executive action – including greater regulations on the coal industry and approval of the Keystone Pipeline only if its “net effect on our...
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‘Demand’ For Nissan Leaf Is All Hype And Subsidies
Reports have trickled out lately that, all of a sudden, demand is so great for the all-electric Leaf that Nissan’s production just can’t keep up. “We’re going to be short on inventory all through the...
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Taxpayer Millions Squandered on EV Charging Study Project
An audit by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General found that the persistent weak demand for electric vehicles harmed the deployment and timeliness of a $135 million-plus taxpayer funded charging...
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Fracking Brings Employment
Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy people greeted us. New cars, trucks, hotels and...
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Tesla Had to Repay Its Dept of Energy Loan to Avoid Default
When it comes to Tesla Motors, an irrational exuberance has overtaken Wall Street, theDepartment of Energy, electric car advocates, government interventionists, crony capitalists, techie nerds and...
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Taxpayer-Funded Solar Company Leaves Environmental, Financial Mess
It may be the height of irony that a company that was supposed to soar to the top of the new clean energy economy, with the help of U.S. taxpayers to undergird President Obama’s stimulus visions, has...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: the Edsel of Energy Policies
The war on climate change has produced many dubious “innovations.” Intermittent wind and solar energy sources, carbon markets that buy and sell “hot air,” and biofuels that burn food as we drive are...
View ArticleInspector General Says DOE Hid Vital Info from Audit of Bankrupt Ecotality
After an Inspector General’s audit earlier this year of now-bankrupt electric vehicle charging company Ecotality, which determined that millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted in a nearly unworkable...
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