Category Archives: Energy

Energy Costs to Skyrocket 2014

Marylanders, didn’t our electric rates go up 72% not too long ago?

Now, how about another 40 to 60% by 2014 when EPA regulations make coal fired energy plants a lot more expensive to operate?

Has anyone screamed “Uncle” yet?

Losing Ground

Apparently, our POTUS (you know who he is) is now blaming earthquakes and Europe for the disastrous economy here in our country.

He may have a golden tongue, but certainly has the opposite of the Midas touch.

In case you think that soundbite is a poor selection to hang your hat on, read this article from the Washington Examiner.

“The signal was clear. Obama had already ignored his own deficit reduction commission in preparing his annual budget, which was later rejected 97-0 in the Senate. Now he was signaling that the time for governing was over and that he was entering campaign mode 19 months before the November 2012 election. People took notice, especially those people who decide whether to hire or not. Goldman Sachs’s Current Activity Indicator stood at 4.2 percent in March. In April — in the middle of which came Obama’s GW speech — it was 1.6 percent. For May it is 1 percent. . . . The message to job creators was clear. Hire at your own risk. Higher taxes, more burdensome regulation and crony capitalism may be here for some time to come.”

Financial Future For Who?

Us? China?

There is way too much in the way of articles, essays, opinions to opine about here.

Instead, here are a few links to whet your whistle, or increase your angst:

China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. . . .”

29 Months into the most Left Wing U.S. Presidency and we are heading into an economic disaster.

More bad economic news.

I have one question:

How can one man, such as our President, solve this crisis when it is Congress that has helped him more than triple our indebtedness (and waants to spend even more) and our primary lender is separating itself from our poor financial dealings?

Very Bad Policy

And I would say idiotic in addition to being acknowledged, finally, to being THE reason our government’s agencies do a poor job of managing our country’s needs.

Pitiful, just pitiful. Get rid of this agency or fix it to be economical for itself AND the rest of us. The debt clock is ticking waaaaay too fast.

EPA Says It’s ‘Prohibited’ From Considering Costs When Issuing Air-Quality Regulations

The Rights of Man

Most excellent.

UPDATE: Gas Prices MythBusted

Just before Memorial Day Weekend.

Staying close to home? Here’s why.

UPDATE: As if anyone needed further explanation.

Excesses

At home and at the G8.

Let’s see now, here at home federal revenues will top $2 trillion this year, but federal spending will approach double that amount.

Meanwhile, Sarkozy calls for Internet regulation as it is a “moral imperative” needed to “correct the excesses and abuses that arise from the total absence of rules.”

Well now, we need this communication so we can educate each other about the elite who don’t even bother with EXISTING RULES to do the jobs they are supposed to do. Instead they want to misdirect and hide what they do from all of us.

Too late, folks, you aren’t invisible any more.

Bigger Brother

The Smart Grid.

via P/Oed Patriot.

Revolting.

An Ad to Remember

Drill Baby Drill

Obama says, “No, we can’t.”

We say, “Yes, we can. We must.”