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Solyndra: Is an apology too much to ask?0
- September 21, 2011
Please send out an APB for common decency because it’s gone, along with the $535 million in taxpayer-guaranteed money that the Obama administration wagered on the California-based solar start-up Solyndra. The high-priced, pet green project – the centerpiece of the president’s green jobs initiative – went belly up, and the F.B.I. raided the homes of
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Dissatisfaction with Xcel should worry lawmakers, PUC 0
- September 21, 2011
Colorado residential natural gas customers don’t like Xcel Energy according to a recent J.D. Power and Associates survey. The Denver Business Journal reports, “Among large natural gas utilities in the West, Xcel Energy was ninth on a list of nine.” This should worry lawmakers because the investor-owned utility has had its way with the state
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Obama decision also a rebuke of Ritter admin 0
- September 6, 2011
President Barack Obama put a halt to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed air-quality standards just before the Labor Day weekend. The Wall Street Journal opined that the president cited the struggling economy as his main reason for not wanting to tighten ozone regulations at this time: Come January 2010, the Obama EPA said it
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Xcel admits what "clean energy" advocates won't 0
- August 29, 2011
Normally reading an energy compliance plan is about as exciting as watching low VOC paint dry. But Xcel Energy‘s 2012 Renewable Energy Standard Compliance Plan, filed with the Public Utilities Commission in May 2011, has some pretty powerful stuff in it including admissions about Colorado’s “phantom carbon tax” and the cost effectiveness of renewable energy.
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Vote for free market energy policy 0
- August 22, 2011
We are honored that Channel 4 CBS Denver nominated our free market energy policy blog for the “Most Valuable Blogger Award” in the Local Affairs category. We would be even more honored to receive your vote. If you want to drive the Big Green agenda advocates crazy, click on the badge below! It will be
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"The Wind Power Paradox"0
- August 10, 2011
A recently released report titled “The Wind Power Paradox” from BENTEK Energy finds that wind energy is neither green nor cost effective. In a radio interview with Amy Oliver Cooke on News Talk 1310 KFKA (Part I and II), BENTEK president Porter Bennett* (a self-described “natural gas guy”) explained that the because the wind blows
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