Environment & Energy Archives

  1. Mar
    31

    Getting Government out of Water

    Posted in Environment & Energy By Max Borders | Tagged

    Great piece by a former EPA administrator on why the government shouldn’t be in the water business and businesses should.-Max Borders

  2. Mar
    29

    Google’s Green Parody

    Posted in Environment & Energy By Max Borders | Tagged , ,

    I can think of no more fitting irony than this "awareness raising" initiative by Google. Why such smart people at such a great company would get into this kind of goofy greenwashing? Anyway, this sums up the irony: "As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the [...]

  3. Mar
    26

    Rush to Biofuels Tempered in Europe?

    Posted in Environment & Energy By Max Borders | Tagged

    A case of common sense overtakes Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the UK, while in the US (including NC) we’re going corn-liquor crazy. From the Guardian: In an outspoken attack on a policy which comes into force next week, Professor Bob Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, [...]

  4. 9
    Mar
    20

    Climate Change: Politicians Better Back Off

    Posted in Environment & Energy By Max Borders | Tagged

    "Forty-eight percent of Americans are unwilling to spend even a penny more in gasoline taxes to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new nationwide survey released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research. The poll found just 18% of Americans are willing to pay 50 cents or more in additional [...]

  5. Mar
    18

    Climate Change: Jim Rogers Bootlegger & Baptist

    Posted in Environment & Energy By Max Borders | Tagged

    He’s a bootlegger and baptist wrapped up in one. Check out this malarky on CEO Jim Rogers who apparently attended some climate alarmist meeting in Brussels: But one of the people most talked about behind his back was Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers. People were stunned by his candor and apparent strong commitment to climate [...]