Think using CFL light bulbs is good for the environment?  How about solar panels?  The government certainly does as evidenced by recent laws not allowing traditional light bulbs and subsidizing solar panels.  Have you heard of mercury or cadmium?
CFL light bulbs have mercury in them.  Guess what, when you break them, it’s bad for the [...]

We recently purchased our first home and the backyard lawn was absolutely dead.  I’ve been working to revive it for a couple months now and slowly, but surely, it has come back to life.  So much so, that two weeks ago we decided it was actually time to buy a lawn mower. 
Everything I was reading had [...]

Probably the most annoying thing to hear about lately, even more than twitter, is cash for clunkers.  It’s all over the news, CBNC, radio, etc.  I was out car shopping this past weekend and everywhere I called and went the first thing I was asked was if I was going to turn in a clunker. 
This [...]

A team of prominent atmospheric scientists sent this Open Letter to Congress today .
OPEN LETTER TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
You have recently received an Open Letter from the Woods Hole Research Center, exhorting you to act quickly to avoid global disaster. The letter purports to be from [...]

Obama likes to call Cap and Trade a green jobs bill.  Well, if Spains experience teaches us anything, it is a jobs killing bill.  Oh yeah, and Obama likes to point to Spain as an example of all the green job creation. 
Dr. Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid, said the [...]

Since EVERYTHING will cost more, how do you choose what to give up?

President Obama just finished a news conference in which he tried to rally support for the cap and tax, oops I mean cap and trade bill.  He laid out in clear, understandable, undeniable language all the benefits of cap and trade and how there really is no downside.  One point he made was that they [...]

People with lower levels of income overwhelmingly vote democrat.  I assume this is so because democrats are more pro-union and pro-welfare than republicans.  I understand that appeal, but at the same time, I personally would prefer a pro-business, pro-job creating policy so that I don’t have to worry about being on welfare.  It has also [...]

One of the lawyers at the firm where I am a summer associate right now is in the Texas State House of Representatives.  He was telling us about what he does there, what it is like and what the demographics of his district are like.  He proceeds to tell us about how his district is [...]

Obama already mentioned California as being a model for our energy future.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, there is this never ending incoherence on the future of clean-coal and nuclear power in his policy.  It is amazing anything ever gets accomplished in the energy industry.
From Senator James Inhofe’s blog:

On Wednesday, in his written testimony and oral [...]