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A Global Warming Alarmist In ‘Efficiency Sheeps’ Clothing?

GoreJim Grady, President and owner of LighTec in Merrimack, has a letter in the Sunday Telegraph on the current effort in the New Hampshire legislature to drop out of RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  He expresses some concern over Republican objection to the plan, points out what he sees as inconsistencies in objections to it, and does not believe it should be mothballed.

But there are problems.

Jim argues that the fee created by RGGI is actually a small cost that benefits all of us, and that we should not object to such a tax because we have had something similar in place in the State for 12 years now.

Most House members seem utterly unaware that for the past 12 years the state has levied a “tax” on the many that indisputably benefits the many: the Systems Benefit Charge (SBC). If you look at your electric bill, you’ll see a tiny charge of $0.0035 per kilowatt-hours of energy usage to pay for state-sponsored energy efficiency. This SBC “tax” (like RGGI, bipartisan) benefits the many by reducing the need to make multi-billion dollar investments in new power plants and electricity transmission and distribution systems.

But Jim never explains why, if we have that tax in place to benefit state sponsored efficiency projects, why we signed onto a separate system that adds an additional tax, supervised by an out of state entity, that skims a portion of that "tax" off the top for administrative costs?  How does that help everyone in New Hampshire when it diverts some of that so-called benefit away from the state. 

Why not make a case to raise the SBC to fill the stated need?  Why add a separate system, run by an outside third party, based on the questionable need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions?

Because Jim Grady was a member of the working group for the Carbon Co2alition, whose goal is or was…

… to advocate for a national energy policy that protects our communities and environment from the ravages of global warming caused by carbon pollution.

That affiliation might have been good to know in advance.  But we can take a look at that right now…

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If “Reproductive Rights” means…

Word games are fun so let’s play some…
If by “reproductive rights” the left means that a woman has the right to destroy a person just because it is still in her womb…

RGGI is One – Less – Tax

The New Hampshire House voted overwhelmingly to take the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) yesterday. The vote signals the beginning of the end of another failed left wing experiment.

State Sen. Jeanie Forrester opposes clean, plentiful energy? GraniteGrok got snookered!

First of all, take a look at THIS ARTICLE about the Northern Pass Canadian hydroelectric energy project. It would provide New Hampshire and future generations with a clean, stable, renewable, cheap, ongoing energy supply.

So naturally lots of people oppose it. Republican Ray Burton—a member of the Grafton County Commission—is even seeking the help of President Obama to block the energy project. Republican State Senator Jeanie Forrester also opposes it.

Jeanie Forrester? GraniteGrok got snookered! Here’s why….

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NIBYs and BANANAs – Oh My!

Doug forwarded this link about the Northern Pass foo-foo.  My instant response was this:

I dunno about Jeanie, but at some point, all the NIBY’s and BANANAs will force us all to wood heat and kerosene -> and not by our choice.

But it may be their choice.

Not In My Backyard.         Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone

Let me discuss this a bit more.  I have not been happy as the enviro-wackos watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) that have infiltrated EPA and the Dept. of Interior seems to want to slowly clamp down on America’s use of energy.  We have, in the past, seeming as a public, sort of dismissed some of these folks that have decided that a de-industrialized America is a better America; the "Noble Savage" ideal taken country-wide. 

We have seen that in Texas and other southern border states this past winter when the colder weather hit those states and they suffered rolling blackouts from a lack of capability of meeting the energy demand.  And the EPA thinks it knows best as it is trying to put its own version of Cap N Trade into effect and the Interior defies court order after court order as it kills off the oil drilling industry (both on and off-shore) by not issuing permits.

And doing so with our collective permission?  I think not (although we did elect the head honcho that has put these yo-yo’s into places of power.

Certainly, I keep hearing that "America is only 5% of the world’s population but uses 40% of the world’s energy".  What I do NOT hear is that America also produces about 40% of the world’s wealth (call it GDP).  The question to be asked is NOT

"why do so few consume so much?"

It also shouldn’t be:

"Why do we use so much oil / energy / gas; in short – energy?"

The question that should be asked is:

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Yes, More US Energy Use Equals More Output

This is not a theorem, or a rule, it is more of a guideline.  That US Energy consumption produces  equals output.  I made this case back in 2008 when wackadoodles like Jeanne Shaheen, Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter (among others milking the teats of the earth-mother for green votes) complained about how America used 25% of the worlds energy–or something close to it, and we were evil for using all that energy.  The narrative was that we were domestic abuses of a child named "resources."

My point, proven time and again, and again, and again, is that we took roughly 25% of the worlds energy and turned it into 25% or more of the worlds wealth and prosperity.  The US GDP as a percentage of global GDP was almost identical to our percentage of energy consumption. 

But we did it cleaner, faster, better, with more freedom and choices than anywhere else on the planet. And the end result was the richest nation with the fewest poor, the best health care, and almost a better everything else.  Even our poor are better.

Liberals and progressives in the democrat party however hate that, just like they hate this; more proof that we do more good things with energy by 6AM than the rest of the world does all day.

It is a chart (on the jump), that shows GDP output compared to energy consumption.  Follow the link, and you can play with the interactive version that shows you who, where, what and so on.  Press play to watch use and growth. Try the tabs and check boxes, and have a grand old time–for about 90 seconds.  Then share it with your annoying liberal friends, and make them buy you another drink for being wrong yet again about something else they will continue to insist is true despite evidence to the contrary.  (There is no settled science but global warming after all.)

 

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Fish Kill

Maryland’s head of the Department of Environment knows what caused two million fish to die.

Why I Need Your Tax Dollars, by Gary Hirshberg

Gary Hirshberg CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farms wants you to know what he thinks about a recent taxpayer investment in organic farming. His editorial in this mornings Union Leader goes on at great length extolling the virtues and benefits of organic farming. It will create jobs, better food, help grow the organic farms footprint and provide fresh local dairy products.
He never mentions that his fresh local dairy farm is owned by a huge multinational French conglomerate of which he is a prominent international player. (Big Dairy!)

Progressive Flatulence

So maybe the 700,000 taxpayer dollars given to UNH to advance the study of “organic farming” was not just a left wing exercise in global warming alarmist advocacy. Maybe, just maybe, it was not meant to study cow farts.

What’s Greene Shaheen Up To?

corn snake
corn snake

Senator Shaheen has signed onto a letter to Senate Majority leader Reid and Minority leader McConnell, suggesting that the corn based ethanol mandates, and all the tariffs and protections associated with it, not be extended.  Your initial reaction might be surprise, but this is not in and of itself surprising.  Shaheen is on the record being against them since at least 2008 when she ran for the US Senate but not because she is against ethanol.  Her problem is the kind of ethanol, and so we can assume her co-signers have similar issues.

On the surface they are claiming to be against the law (the mandate) that props up ethanol on three fronts and also gives 31 billion dollars to the oil companies to offset the cost of forcing them to add ethanol to fossil based motor fuels.  I’m against corporate welfare so I can’t object to repeal even with ulterior motives, but this starts off as a calculated, backhanded poke in the eye, not just to the stupidity of the subsidy regime that liberals normally love, but to big oil.  And we should expect oil to get screwed. We should simply accept that even with repeal of the ethanol mandate, we could still see the government use other means of legislative or bureaucratic force to keep ethanol in the fuel supply and pass those costs off to the oil companies.  If they can screw oil and get what they really want along the way, that’s a dream come true to Progressives.  But what do these signers really want?

As usual, nothing in Washington is quite what it seems.

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More Stupid Environmentalist Notions

Liberals say the dumbest things. A few days ago we read that a number of activists are trying to terminate the license renewal for Seabrook Nuclear power plant because, they insist, renewable sources will become available to replace the power Seabrook currently generates.

Data point – Green House Gas emissions

So, the EPA wants to effectively shut down the US economy by using regulatory means, simply because those now in charge think they will save the world on the backs of working Americans?  Once again, we see the lunacy of Progressives believing that they can make changes and have them stick.  Their fallacy, akin to … Read more

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'EmI haven’t written a post about energy for almost a week so I’ll keep this one short.

Greene Shaheen, Carol CO2-Porter, and Paul ‘Carbon Credits’ Hodes, all support massive taxation on emissions because without them, we are doomed…doomed I tell you DOOMED!  So doomed that  Hodes and Porter at least, voted for a remedy that doesn’t do anything except make energy cost more while enriching energy companies, corporate farms, green energy companies in China, themselves, and the government.  But they insist it’s to save the earth.

Don’t be surprised, they are full of crap.

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Question Global Warming? “We Will Kill You.”

The environmental movement has been a smash hit homerun for the political/government/ruling classes. So this was inevitable: Their new approach is shown here, in the first of the “Eco-Snuff films.” The message is this: “If you dissent or question our dogma, we will kill you.”

Winds Of Change

It should be common knowledge that if we get rid of John Lynch and enough democrats that we can also free New Hampshire from the retarded fad known as RGGI. And the green energy initiatives that are all based on flawed science and an economic model that costs us jobs and business growth.

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More Trouble Than They Are Worth

This would have to be filed away as a classic, not just because of its age–it’s a few years old–but because it reminds us of why we don’t want congress and congressman, working–and the busy-body ruling class in general–spending too much time in the swamp.  They cause more problems than they solve.     (Another … Read more

Silent Autumn?

The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences in California (tin foil hats are mandatory) was built on top of a piece of contaminated land.  Oh yeah, baby.  There are, of course, ‘concerns’ for the welfare of the students. (The 75 million dollar School was named after Rachel Carson and Al Gore–Environmental scaremongering is probably also required.) … Read more

ONE! Singular Deception…

The ONE campaign is back in New Hampshire and looking for fresh souls to trap in its twisted web of deception.  While liberals are always ripe for a sob story, ONE is always looking for unsuspecting so-called conservatives and Republicans to call friends.  And the GOP is easy prey.  After years of being framed by the media as cold-hearted war mongers who spend long days smoking cigars and oppressing the world’s poor for the gain of their corporate paymasters, nothing looks better to them than being seen with a group like ONE campaign.

Unless of course you’ve seen the Black Widow waiting at the center of the ONE web.

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Sugar Daddy

Paul Hodes has a dirty little secret.  His ‘commitment’ to green energy has strings attached that lead directly to the sugar industry and a significant campaign cash “Thank You.”  Back in 2007 and 2008 Congress waged an epic battle over the Farm Bill.  They didn’t call it the farm bill they called it the Food … Read more

Chicago On The Merrimack

The democrat party line on BP is to close ranks and paint Republicans as protecting big oil.  This is necessary to distract America from Obama’s incompetence and the democrat’s cozy relationship with the British energy company.  Both Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes got the memo—they are on board—using tragedy for personal and political profit as each has sent out fundraising propaganda asking supporters to help them fend of the GOP and its defense of big oil.  These people are unbelievable. 

In a recent Hodes fundraising email staffer Valerie Martin claims that… 

"Republicans… are standing up for Big Oil, Big Insurance, and Big Banks. 

It’s just another example of a Republican defending the special interests, not your interests.…

Other Republicans are even inexplicably criticizing President Obama’s efforts to make sure BP has money set aside to pay for the damages they caused.”” 

So let me see if I’ve go this right.  Paul Hodes (lawyer) sanctions the chief executive’s right to pry billions away from a private company without due process of law, when it is politically or ideologically convenient.  You can run on that and democrats will vote for you?

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