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  • NYT: ‘Biden’s Lesson From Past Green Stimulus Failures: Go Even Bigger’ – The more the plans fail, the more the planners’ plan!

    New York Times: "As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw a 'green jobs' stimulus package that produced notable failures. This time, with more money and more demand for clean technology, will be different, Democrats say." ... "12 years later, President Biden is preparing the details of a new, vastly larger, economic stimulus plan that again would use government spending to unite the goals of fighting climate change and restoring the economy. While clean energy spending was just a fraction of the Obama stimulus, Mr. Biden wants to make it the centerpiece of his proposal for trillions of dollars, not billions, on government grants, loans, and tax incentives to spark renewable power, energy efficiency and electric car production.

    But the failures of the Obama stimulus, and Mr. Biden’s role in them — he oversaw recovery-act spending — could haunt the plan as it makes its way through Congress. The risk to taxpayers could be orders of magnitude more this time around, and Republicans for years have proven adept at citing Solyndra to criticize federal intervention in industrial planning."

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    Flashback: ‘Sheriff Joe’: Biden played ‘sheriff’ on ’09 aid: In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden acted as “Sheriff Joe” in making sure federal dollars from a massive economic aid package were getting to the right places and getting there quickly.

    Flashback 2011: How did ‘Sheriff Joe’ miss failings of green energy stimulus?! Solyndra represents stimulus failure – Solyndra, the stimulus-funded solar energy company that recently declared bankruptcy. The company, which laid off 1,100 workers after its sudden demise, once looked like the poster-child of stimulus success…. Digging beneath the surface, the situation gets more troubling. The White House’s relationship with Solyndra, it turns out, was a mix of corporate favoritism, big-money politics, liberal ideology and Chicago-style deal making. As the Obama administration dealt favors, the American taxpayers got stuck with the $535 million bill.

    Posted March 6, 202110:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • Michael Shellenberger testifies to Congress on Texas grid failure & on California’s energy woes
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • Wind & solar subsidies
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • Floating ‘doughnut’ hotel which generates power with solar and wind as it spins planned for Qatar
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • If green energy is the future, why are renewable energy stocks crashing?
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • Wind and solar reliance threatens to black out the US – Risky ‘intermittent, weather- & climate-dependent power sources’
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • Energy Dept. To Revive Scandal-Plagued Obama-Era Loan Program
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • China turns the screws on ‘unreliables’ (solar & wind)
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • California’s Energy Scorecard Fails On The World Stage

    State energy policies have made California electricity and fuel prices among the highest in the nation which have been contributory to the rapid growth of “energy poverty” for the 18 million (45 percent of the 40 million Californians) that represent the Hispanic and African American populations of the state. ...

    Currently, underdeveloped countries, mostly from energy starved countries, are experiencing about 11,000,000 child deaths every year of which more than 70 per cent are attributable to six causes: diarrhea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, preterm delivery, or lack of oxygen at birth. About 29,000 children under the age of five – 21 each minute – die every day, mainly from preventable causes.

    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • California’s Energy Policies Hurt Minority Citizens the Most
    Posted 10:30 PM by Admin | Tags: economics, energy, gnd, solar, wind
  • NASA Data: World Is Greener So Far This Century Thanks to CO2
  • New Study: 100-Year Flood Events Are Globally Decreasing In Frequency & Probability Since 1970

     

    "The probability of a 100-year flood event is now so rare it has only been occurring once every 358 years on average since 1970." ... 

    "In present-day conditions, 100-year flood events have globally become so rare that they now (since 1970) only occur once every 358 years on average. And 50-year floods only occur once every 152 years on average.

    With the cooler climate conditions of the 1970s, there was a 45% probability that a 50-year flood would occur. In today’s conditions, however, there is only an 18% chance that a 50-year flood will occur."

  • FLASHBACK: In 2009, John Kerry incorrectly predicted the Arctic would have ‘ice-free summer’ by 2014
  • We should return to Michael Crichton’s way of thinking

    We should return to Michael Crichton's way of  thinking -- Part 1

    "I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."  — Michael Crichton

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