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Here's what passes for Presidential logic: A $7 billion infrastructure project (ie. Keystone XL) financed privately is "not a jobs plan", but spending $50 billion in taxpayer dollars on bridges is "putting people immediately to work."

E&E News  (7/30/13) reports: “On the latest stop of his new jobs tour, President Obama visited an Amazon.com distribution center in Chattanooga, Tenn., to propose a new "grand bargain for the middle class" that would lower business tax rates in exchange for...
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Skittishly dancing around the issue is unbecoming and childish. Fred Upton is right. E&E News (07/29/13) reports: “The prospect of a House vote on a carbon tax turns Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy Committee to thoughts of, well, love. He grasped a reporter by both shoulders last week and, when asked about the prospect of a vote, poured out his heart: 'I would love to vote on it,' he exclaimed. 'I would love to vote on it, because the House would send a very strong signal...
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The House this week is considering two pieces of legislation designed to increase congressional oversight of the Obama administration’s jobs-killing regulatory agenda. One of the bills specifically targets the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) energy-related rules and mandates. H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act , requires the EPA to submit to Congress a detailed analysis of the economic impacts of all energy-related rules costing more than $1 billion. The bill, introduced...
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Call it whatever you want, it’s a growth limiting, prosperity capping, cost increasing, ineffective policy that expands the size and scope of the government. The New York Times  (7/24/13) reports: “The headlines last week were dramatic: Australia abandons its carbon tax. The move seemed to confirm suspicions that putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions is politically toxic … Avoiding the term ‘carbon tax’ may make such policies a bit easier. In Australia now, ‘it will be...
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Tough to tell whether they are cocky or just plain stupid. But the good news is that no one can keep pretending about the agenda of the bad guys anymore. They mean to stop the production and use of all affordable and reliable energy in the United States as soon as they can. The Center for American Progress  (7/24/13) reports: “The impacts of climate change are already occurring: There were 25 climate-related extreme weather events in the United States in the period from 2011 to 2012 that...
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Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) recently introduced a bipartisan bill, H.R. 2728, the Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act. The bill seeks to preserves state authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands—a right that has recently come under assault from the federal government. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in May proposed creating an additional layer of federal bureaucracy to hydraulic fracturing regulation, even though states have...
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We don't understand this. Who wouldn't want to be rolling down the street, smoking indo, sipping on gin and juice, in a Leaf? The National Legal and Policy Center  (7/23/13) reports: “Reports have trickled out lately that, all of a sudden, demand is so great for the all-electric Leaf that Nissan’s production just can’t keep up. ‘We’re going to be short on inventory all through the summer,’ said Erik Gottfried, director of electric vehicle sales for Nissan, to Automotive News....
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She's ready. Are you? The Daily Caller  (7/22/13) reports: “In an address to staff, the newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency chief stated that regulators had the ‘responsibility’ to take on global warming, per the president’s call to action. ‘We have a clear responsibility to act now on climate change,’ said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy. ‘That’s what President Obama has called on us and the American people, so that we protect future generations...This agency...
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