Category archive: Green Technology
That which we call ethanol subsidies, by any other name, would still stink
By Chuck Roger • August 25th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Our federal government continues to run a con that hands six billion taxpayer dollars a year to companies involved in producing ethanol-doped gasoline that damages engines, increases carbon emissions over pure gasoline, and costs more than pure gasoline. Yet earlier this year, Congress defeated attempts initiated by Senators Tom Coburn and Dianne [...]
Congressional Cowardice Sustains Ethanol Subsidies
By Chuck Roger • August 18th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér At this moment, $6 billion in annual federal subsidies continue to be paid to American farmers to grow corn for producing ethanol. The ethanol continues to be added to gasoline, creating a mixture which will damage vehicles’ engines and result in carbon emissions no lower than those produced [...]
Obama’s Symbolic Chevy Volt Folly
By Chuck Roger • June 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, May 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Among 116 electric cars that the Obama administration intends to buy with taxpayer money, 101 will be Chevy Volts. The program will also include installing charging stations in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Washington, D.C. According to USA Today, “The moves are [...]
Will Conservatives Embrace Paul Ryan’s Call to End Corporate Welfare?
By Chuck Roger • May 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 3, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass power. Corn ethanol, embryonic stem cell research, electric and hybrid vehicle development, and “green” technology in general. Education. All are enterprises with highly-criticized government subsidies. And the vast majority of the criticism comes from conservatives But what of oil, gas, [...]
Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style
By Chuck Roger • April 15th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 14, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Course Description: Learn to craft false statements that appear factual and to justify “fixes” for imaginary problems. The student learns how to apply said fixes to an agenda which addresses environmentalists’ most precious issue: human-caused global warming. Course Instructor: An associate transportation planner with the [...]
Memo to GOP: Avoid Newt Gingrich like the plague
By Chuck Roger • February 1st, 2011 12:30 am
Would Republicans nominate a presidential candidate who pushes thoroughly-debunked biofuel nonsense? Were the party to select Newt Gingrich, it will have nominated, in The Wall Street Journal‘s words, “Professor Cornpone.” Professor Cornpone hasn’t yet officially announced, but he is running for President. In a recent speech to ethanol lobbyists, Gingrich alleged that criticism of the [...]
The Sierra Club’s Mission
By Chuck Roger • January 10th, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, December 24, 2010. “Don’t you care about global warming?” asked a sign carried by a Sierra Club demonstrator. The preachy admonishment packs the same intellectual weightiness as “Free the color purple!” Well-adjusted people “care” about neither purple nor global warming. Colors and recurring natural climate phenomena fly below the radars of emotionally [...]
Greenwashing ‘green’ lies
By Chuck Roger • November 12th, 2010 2:06 am
Science Fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon once said, “90% of everything is crud.” The axiom was referred to as Sturgeon’s Revelation. Applying Sturgeon’s Revelation to the world of “green” products, we get: The axiom of green dreams: 95% of green products are not green. What does “green” mean? To be truly green, a product must be [...]
The ‘green’ technology fallacy
By Chuck Roger • October 29th, 2010 2:13 am
One day, you’re going to drive an all-natural car fueled by exhaling your planet-killing CO2 into an organic tube plumbed to the car’s magic power chamber–painted green of course. This will solve two problems at once. The evil global-warming-inducing CO2 will be magically annihilated and you won’t have to use infinitely more evil fossil fuel, [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Academic environmentalist arrogance: If we green it, they will buy it
By Chuck Roger • September 16th, 2010 2:58 am
When someone is described as having a “career as an environmental activist,” you know you are dealing with a lefty ideologue. But for our edification, we turn to the source in which the claim appears. ASU Magazine, the official publication of Arizona State University, recently ran a story titled, “Fields of green: sustainability’s intersection with [...]
Hilarious electric car fantasies
By Chuck Roger • August 10th, 2010 3:38 am
Last week, I posted a blog article titled, “Electric car fantasies, real economic joke: Obama Motors off to a rousing start.” The post, covering the introduction of the doomed-to-fail Chevy Volt electric car, drew a sizeable response. A faithful reader called my attention to another electric car, the Nissan Leaf. There is at least one [...]
Wind and solar power job fantasies
By Chuck Roger • June 25th, 2010 8:54 pm
“Green” energy is the way of the future, right? In a word: No. Consider: Wind turbines are only possible because taxpayers subsidize their production. Navigant Consulting estimated that if federal tax credits for solar power and wind energy were discontinued, these industries would lose 77% of their employees. The statement is part of a Commonwealth [...]
Wind power jobs pay infinite salaries
By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2010 9:51 pm
Ah, what I could do with infinite income. Travel all the time. Go fishing… a lot… like every day. Give all my money to charities of my choice, which of course means infinite charities since there’d be infinite money. But I couldn’t give all the money away anyway, because it’d be infinite! What to do? A quick [...]
It takes a lot of green to go green
By Chuck Roger • January 7th, 2010 12:07 am
A friend of mine is significantly invested in a start-up solar energy company, and I wish him well. I am personally cautious in the area of solar energy conversion technology. The principles behind solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and other scientifically exciting alternative energy sources are indeed solid. I was educated as a physicist and will always [...]
