In the last session of the Delaware General Assembly, natural gas was defined as a renewable resource. Many people have, logically, scoffed at this definition, but, natural gas is truly a renewable resource. Every 50 to 100 million years or so, the planet has created more, which is why we have so much and why [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Sea Level Rise and Delaware Impact
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Energy, Government Waste on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lexus Hybrid at $36,000
Posted in Democrats, Economy, Jack Markell, Taxes, Tea Party on October 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Bloomberg News just covered the new Lexus CT 200h (h is for hybrid — aka battery plus motor). This car will compete head-to-head with the Fisker Nina, allegedly to be built in Delaware and available sometime in 2013. So, Lexus (aka Toyota) has a product to market 2 years earlier, with an extensive dealer network, [...]
Could Bloom Energy’s factory run on Bloom Boxes?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I was trying to figure out how these things operate and came across something that I had never seen before. The operating temperature is 1,000 degrees Centigrade: that is over 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. This is about the same temperature as volcanic lava! Once the reaction gets started, it sustains itself at that temperature. How efficient [...]
Another “great” program that no one will qualify for?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I have not even bothered to try to understand the details of Obama’s changes to the Student Loan program that he claims will help those impacted by his “recovery.” A few of his other populist programs have been all PR with no actual effect: No income tax on phantom income when you sell your house [...]
PETA Sues SeaWorld For ‘Enslaving’ Killer Whales | Fox News
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »
PETA Sues SeaWorld For ‘Enslaving’ Killer Whales | Fox News. Jeff Kerr, PETA’s general counsel, says his five-member legal team — which spent 18 months preparing the case — believes it’s the first federal court suit seeking constitutional rights for members of an animal species. Just saying…
Fisker: No misuse of federal loan | The News Journal | delawareonline.com
Posted in Government Waste, President Obama on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fisker: No misuse of federal loan | The News Journal | delawareonline.com. The question that comes to my mind is whether Fisker has taken any of the DOE guaranteed funds. If they have not, it is still there for domestic operations as they say. If they have taken a dime of that loan, their statement [...]
Bloom vs Kevlar
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Jack Markell, Taxes, Tea Party on October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The News Journal had an editorial today that endorsed the concept of governmental venture capitalism. The title of the editorial is “Where will manufacturing jobs come from?“ In endorsing the concept of government-controlled venture capital, the Editorial Board discounts, out of hand, charges of crony capitalism, stating “It’s more a buzzword than substantial criticism, an automatic [...]
The New Economy: Delaware + Green Energy = -(Job Growth)
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Energy, Jack Markell, Taxes, Tea Party on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Most states have seen job growth, but they’ve been in the energy technology fields and manufacturing.” You mean after pulling a DNREC Secretary with specific expertise in “green energy”. After spending tens of millions of dollars in subsidies to Bloom Energy & Fiskers. After spending millions on the Sustainable Energy Utility. Delaware is an “abnormal” [...]
Jack Markell’s Green Energy Follies – Guest Post by: Fred Cullis
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Energy, Government Waste, Jack Markell, Taxes, Tea Party, Vice President Biden on October 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Jack Markell continues to promote highly questionable “Green Energy” policies and programs that are politically appealing but economically unviable. This is not in the best interest of the taxpayers of Delaware and will cost them hundreds of millions of wasted dollars and thousands of jobs. At the sound bite level, helping Fisker buy the abandoned [...]
Fisker Automotive & Bloom Energy — What is the connection between VC Company Kleiner Perkins & Governor Jack Markell?
Posted in Delaware, Economy, Government Waste, Jack Markell, Tea Party on October 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to ABCNews: “DOE cannot be assured that the projects are on track to deliver the vehicles as agreed,” said the GAO report examining the department’s ATVM program. “It also means that U.S. taxpayers do not know whether they are getting what they paid for through the loans.”… Between them, Fisker, at $529 million, and [...]
