Wanna really quick proof?
We still haven’t run out of trees or whales.
Posted in Economics, Energy, Politics: National
Tagged Environment, Health Care, Oil, Peak Oil, Politics, Solar
This morning Brad and Britt are discussing the shooting at Fort Hood. During the conversation, Britt makes the statement that we can’t afford to piss ’em off, because that’s where we get all our oil!
It made me stop and wonder why he thought we were talking about Canada.
Oil Imports October 29, 2009
Or Mexico.
Weird, those guys.
Posted in Energy, Politics: International, Politics: National
Tagged Brad and Britt, Oil
This is how it should be done.
The state’s largest natural gas utility is asking its customers to pay a little extra each month, in a novel effort to help cover heating bills for low-income residents.
Piedmont Natural Gas, with 725,000 customers in the state, expects a surge of delinquent bills this winter in the midst of a grinding recession and is hoping to avert a corresponding increase in disconnected accounts.
The company this morning introduced a program to let its customers sign up to “round up” their bills, with the difference going to a fund to help residents who can’t afford to pay their utility bills. The program rounds up Piedmont customer bills to the nearest dollar and will result in an average monthly donation of 50 cents, or about $6 a year.
If 100,000 people sign up, Piedmont would raise about $600,000 a year toward the program. The company is contributing $100,000 of its own money and will contribute $50,000 more if 100,000 people sign up.
The money would be given to the state Department of Health and Human Services to distribute to social-service agencies. The donations would be distributed to all customers who can’t pay their utility bills, not just natural gas customers.
Here is a corporation that is using it’s position in society to help society. Further, it is doing it by asking, not forcing by fiat. Further, Progress is putting it’s money where it’s mouth is; they are donating $100,000 of their own money to the program. Lastly, they are giving the money to social-service agencies to distribute as needed; not force those agencies to simply return that money to Progress.
Kudos to Progress Energy!
Posted in Economy, Energy, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Conservative, Recession, zCarolina Politics
I will try to be as simple as I can be:
Economics: The study of the distribution of scarce resources with alternate uses.
So, I am sitting reading the Internet today and come across this gem.
Some highlights:
Look, this is simple. Gas is a thing that if people were able to obtain for free, would soon run out; we wouldn’t have enough to go around. So we have to ration it. Today, we do this using money; as the price goes up, yuou may trend to use less, as the price goes down, you will tend to use more. Now, what the government wants to do is end the normal market method of rationing it and put it into the hands of elected officials who have almost zero ability to have a complete understanding of the market forces.
The result will be predictable: Lines.
Posted in Economy, Energy, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged zCarolina Politics, zNorth Carolina
Turns out that just around the corner, we have work to do. Here, Butner Blogspot is talking about clean coal and how it’s not so clean.
In reality, there is no such thing as “clean” coal in America today. Coal cannot be called ‘clean’ until its CO2 emissions are captured and stored safely.
So, using this same definition for all things, I am guessing that there is no such thing as ‘clean’ trees? Or ‘clean’, say, people, or squirrels and such?
Butner continues:
Today, coal power plants emit carbon dioxide (CO2), the pollutant causing the climate crisis. A third of the America’s carbon pollution now comes from about 600 coal-fired power plants.
I guess we are skipping the whole science part, or that the alarmist science might be wrong, or tampered with or any other misguided side affect of the Global Warming scare.
So, the good Gov’na has made many many promises over the course of her campaign. And, according to reports, those promises have been removed from her website. This seems to be a popular politician’s trick as we have seen the same shenanigans over at Obama’s website. I’ll comment on each in the coming days and then we’ll follow up on the Govna’s progress from time to time.
Thanks to the Raleigh News and Observer who was able to capture those promises and then publish them in today’s edition. They are:
EDUCATION
ARTS
WATER
CRIME
ECONOMY
HEALTH
GOVERNMENT REFORM
ACCESSIBILITY
TRANSPORTATION
ENERGY
Posted in Economy, Education, Energy, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Environment, Main Stream Media, Politics