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  • Stardom?

    NYT Magazine swoons for Pickens 3

    Posted 1 year, 3 months ago

    From the most recent New York Times Magazine:

    As a Texas oilman and major contributor to the Republican Party, you've just launched yourself, at 80, into green stardom by devising an energy plan that relies mainly on wind power.

    Green stardom. All you have to do is mention wind turbines to make the eyes of dirty hippies glaze over in delight.

  • Judicial activism

    Aftermath of Supreme Court's Exxon decision 7

    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Estimated time for full ecological recovery by affected species from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill: 15 - 30 years.

    Estimated time for full financial recovery by Exxon Mobil Corp. from yesterday's Supreme Court decision: 4.5 days.

    As written in yesterday's opinion:

    The real problem, it seems, is the stark unpredictability of punitive awards.

  • Polar bears are fat!

    Listing polar bears as endangered species could ... harm polar bears? 1

    Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

    Via an email from The National Center for Public Policy Research:

    The ad is being released in conjunction with a National Center for Public Policy Research policy paper, "Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Because of Projected Future Global Warming Could Harm Bears and Humans Alike," by Peyton Knight and Amy Ridenour.

    The paper questions the wisdom of listing the polar bear as threatened based on environmentalist organizations' projections of future global warming because:
    • Listing the polar bear could have adverse affects on bear conservation efforts.

    Now that we… Read More

  • Snarkey Markey

    Seeing through the EPA's BS 0

    Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

    Looking back at seven years of ever-looming -- yet constantly narrowly-averted -- GHG emissions regulations, it seems like it might have been a lot less painful to industry and damaging to the economy if the Bushies would have laid out a simple set of expectations early on and then just let us handle it from there. Even if the resultant regulations wouldn't have been nearly as stringent as most of us would have liked, industry might have benefited from the certainty.

    Preferring to keep us all waiting just a little longer, however, last Thursday Bush's EPA put off any… Read More

  • Mood in the hood 10

    Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

    John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, was on Charlie Rose Tuesday night.

    About 22 minutes into the segment, he says the following [my own transcription]:

    If we don't drill more in this country, I am quite concerned about civil disturbances in our urban areas because of the price of fuel.

    ...

    I was meeting in Los Angeles with mayor Villaraigosa and I asked him a specific question because I lived there during the Rodney King civil disturbances. [I] said, "How is the mood in the hood based upon the price of gasoline compared to the mood in the… Read More

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