“Every carbon cap or tax will increase the cost of electricity in every home, farm and factory. Every increase in power costs will drive one more business and its jobs to China or India. Every subsidy for playthings like solar collectors or wind farms will cause an increase in taxes. And every ethanol plant built will increase the costs of every bit of food on the table of every home in the country – all of these are Policies for Poverty.” Read this in it’s entirety here.

Renewable energy wrecks environment, scientist claims

The full foot­print of ura­ni­um min­ing might add a few hun­dred square kilome­tres and there are con­sid­era­t­ions of waste stor­age, safe­ty and se­cur­ity, he ad­mitted. Yet the dense heart of the at­om of­fers far the small­est foot­print in na­ture of any en­er­gy source, he said; nu­clear en­er­gy, en­joy­ing from economies of scale, could mul­ti­ply its pow­er out­put and even shrink the en­er­gy sys­tem. “Re­new­ables may be re­new­able but they are not green,” Read this in it’s entirety here.

This was quite an interesting little article and even though written in Austrailia is true here as well. Any attempt by government no matter how well meaning in their own little minds in the end hurts those they say they are trying to help and meddling in the environment with offsets and other hypocritical malarky is no different. Nuclear power is our best bet on the future and the politicians must let drilling begin in Anwar and offshore the continental shelf. Here’s an interesting site I fell upon while searching for something else. It gives an alternative perspective on this whole gorebal warming farce. Greenie Watch.