The press is reporting that California Representative Henry Waxman, a very liberal Congressman representing Beverly Hills, has defeated Michigan Representative John Dingell in a secret vote and will become the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. 

How do you know when a Green - hardcore environmentalist - is lying to you? When his lips are moving. Okay, it’s a cliche used in other cases as well, but it is especially true when the latest absurd claim comes flying at you courtesy of the mainstream media.

WASHINGTON (AP)—With the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80 percent come 2050.

The issue of the nation’s financial and economic security is likely to dominate the November 4 election. Earlier in the campaign cycle we might have assumed that foreign affairs and energy would be uppermost on the minds of voters, but we’re told that, ultimately, voters vote their pocketbooks.

Washington, DC--Green activists have been pushing for “renewable energy” for decades, even though it shows little promise--after billions of dollars in government subsidies--of ever being practical and inexpensive. Nevertheless, plans are springing up all over the country for large-scale solar, wind, and geothermal projects.

Formally “committed to environmentalism, non-violence, social justice and grassroots organizing ... without the support of corporate donors,” the Green Party (GP) of the United States works in partnership with the European Federation of Green Parties and the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas. With more than 220 local officeholders across the U.S., GP is by far the largest independent or third party in the nation. Party membership is estimated to be between 250,000-and 300,000 people.

Irvine, CA--Two of the problems our presidential candidates are being called upon to solve are the spiraling cost of energy and the “crisis” of man-made global warming. Both Senators McCain and Obama claim to have a unified strategy for tackling both problems.

On most U.S. political issues, Barack Obama and John McCain take sharply different positions and represent real choice for the voters. On the biggest issue of all, however - $4 gas and global warming strategy - Obama and McCain seem to agree. They both think energy prices need to triple yet again to prevent man-made global warming.

Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most—in our pockets.

Environmental advocates have endorsed carbon neutrality; they purchase carbon offsets to neutralize their impact on fossil fuel consumption and therefore global warming. But why the half-step? Why not try for a negative carbon footprint? Don’t use any hydrocarbons and buy the offsets.

Time political columnist Joe Klein’s article in the magazine this week was titled “Kill Your Air Conditioner.” Klein detests the quality of air-conditioned air, and thinks everyone in America ought to live to his tastes: “The unnecessary refrigeration of America has become a chronic disease.” Air-conditioning is “bad for the planet,” he wrote, but “unfortunately, it is not as bad as I’d like it to be.” He sided with Jimmy Carter and the “dreadful cardigan sweater” over the Bush-Cheney policy of “malignant neglect.” Klein advocated breaking out the thermostat police as a presidential campaign issue: “I’d like to see both candidates call for an immediate 5deg.F thermostat adjustment, just to get the conservation ball rolling.”

We have heard for the umpteenth time that we need to cut energy consumption, why everyone from the movie stars to Al Gore has told us how we are just using too much electricity. All of this stems of course from the fact that president Bush did not mandate that we cut back as an attempt to cut costs for the war effort. Time recently had an article talking about how we should turn off our air conditioners because we deserve to sweat since Bush did not make us sacrifice. I must admit some of these people are really starting to make me angry since you and I both know his article was written in a high rise office with A/C on a nice computer and he dares tell us the little people we deserve to sweat. Or dear little Al who is so concerned about the earth that he upped his energy usage, but we need to cut corners somewhere so I say the TV.

WASHINGTON – Members of Congress are beginning to have second thoughts about the ban on incandescent light bulbs effective in 2014 as a result of an energy bill signed into law earlier this year.

ABC’s World News and the NBC Nightly News gave plenty of time to left-wing environmentalists and Democrats opposed to President Bush’s call to open up oil drilling off the shores of the continental U.S., but unlike the CBS Evening News the two newscasts provided equal time to supporters and experts who predicted it would lower gas prices. CBS reporter Bill Whitaker began with pro and con soundbites, but his story quickly deteriorated into a brief against the proposal with opponents and those saying it would do nothing to lower prices getting twice as many soundbites (4) as supporters (2). 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has documented that compact fluorescent light bulbs are not safe to use in some locations, and cleanup of broken fixtures can involve cutting out sections of carpeting that are contaminated with mercury. Now a property manager that operates facilities in Washington and Idaho is telling tenants under a new program it will replace all bulbs with CFLs, without any warning about their dangers.