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2010 midterm elections are over; back to work on an American Energy Renaissance
Posted on November 4, 2010 | No CommentsThe 2010 midterm elections are over but the long difficult road we must take to achieve an American Energy Renaissance [[1]] still lies before us. Obstacles that have been placed along that road over the past forty years and continue to be thrown at us... -
Note to PA GOP state senators – Subject: Marcellus Shale Tax – There is nothing to negotiate.
Posted on October 26, 2010 | No CommentsWe the People are from Earth. Our Pennsylvania GOP state senators are from Mars. It must be so. Why else would five GOP senators sign off on a letter asking their party leadership to negotiate a Marcellus Shale severance tax with Governor Ed “Lame Ducky”... -
Cape Wind; too big to fail and too stupid to succeed
Posted on October 18, 2010 | No CommentsWhat happens when politicians ram through a massive renewable energy investment putting taxpayer dollars at risk and utility customers’ budgets in the red? You get Cape Wind, a $1 billion offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound sold by Governor Deval Patrick in 2006 as something... -
Is the New York Times tossing a renewable energy source under the bus?
Posted on October 9, 2010 | No CommentsThere it was right on the front page of the New York Times; For Those Near, the Miserable Hum of Clean Energy[1]. An uncomplimentary and surprisingly unspin doctored article about what a crappy deal it is having big, noisy, over hyped wind turbines humming, whirring,... -
Marcellus Shale natural gas and the corporate tax myth
Posted on September 30, 2010 | No CommentsAs Milton Friedman clearly explained corporations do not pay taxes. Buildings do not pay taxes, trucks do not pay taxes, natural gas at the well head cannot pay taxes, no inanimate objects pay taxes. People pay taxes. This endless rubbish about how much money any... -
Regulatory nuclear options will be used to destroy the American energy industry
Posted on September 29, 2010 | No CommentsFederal government regulation effectively brought nuclear power development in the U.S. to a standstill over twenty years ago. During the 1980’s nuclear plant construction costs tripled and construction time went from 5.5 to 8 years. Two regulatory practices were in play that combined to form... -
Big Government: it is, therefore it regulates; it regulates, therefore it taxes
Posted on September 13, 2010 | No CommentsWhat if the Founding Fathers had held a competition to decide who among them could best articulate their intent in crafting a U.S. Constitution that would kick American exceptionalism into high gear? It would have been close competition but James Madison and Thomas Jefferson would... -
What in the name of liberty is a “competitive” tax?
Posted on September 13, 2010 | No CommentsYou have to hand it to Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Dan Onorato. He may have just set a new standard for big government progressive economic ignorance with his notion of a “competitive” tax. Speaking on the subject of Marcellus Shale in Easton PA Onorato said... -
Should states compete to see which one can collect the most taxes?
Posted on September 9, 2010 | No CommentsIn the America envisioned by the Founding Fathers the individual states would be competing with one another to provide the best environment for free market activities in which their citizens could participate and prosper. States would not be competing to see which could collect the... -
Did PA DEP bash Marcellus Shale drillers for failing to report they had nothing to report?
Posted on September 8, 2010 | No CommentsIt appears the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) may have taken some of the Marcellus Shale drilling companies to the woodshed for “failing to report” that they had “nothing to report” as of August 15, 2010. One can easily see why PA DEP...