Obama energy policy slams Florida utility bills, may wreck Alaska resources

Commentary by Kay B. Day

In Jacksonville, Fla., consumers will soon see utility bills skyrocket, in accordance with the president's wishes.In The Sunshine State, Democrat policy on energy is having an impact on consumers and it also may wreck offshore development of oil and gas off the coast of Alaska.

President Obama and his fellow Democrats took up the mantle of energy policy immediately after gaining absolute power in Washington. After the House passed HR 2454, popularly known as Cap and Trade but more realistically known as an energy tax, the bill went nowhere. Then Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf, providing left of center policy wonks, politicians and lobby groups an unrivaled opportunity to body slam the gas and oil industry.

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Sunlight Foundation crits Energy Bill as Dems target another industry

The EPA, with assistance from the Supreme Court, has classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Science Daily featured an article about the impact of carbon dioxide on plants. "There's been a great deal of controversy about how plant respiration responds to elevated CO2," said U. of I. plant biology professor Andrew Leakey, who led the study. "Some summary studies suggest it will go down by 18 percent, some suggest it won't change, and some suggest it will increase as much as 11 percent."The Democratic-controlled government is at a pivotal point with the Climate Bill, H.R. 2454, and the Sunlight Foundation is pointing criticism at legislators for rushing a bill few have probably even read. The administration has already taken over lending and auto manufacturing. Soon healthcare will likely be in the hands of the government. And now energy will be manipulated, dictated and overseen by government.

Noting the bill expanded to 1,201 pages (from 946) over the weekend, a press advisory issued by Sunlight said, “This legislative maneuvering reminds us of the failure of Congress to make bills properly available before consideration.” The Foundation website has an analysis of what can only be described as an insane process for passing a bill that will impact every aspect of our lives. For instance, the bill available on THOMAS, the venue for public disclosure, apparently isn’t the full bill.

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Climate change impact on Americans rests with Waxman, a federal speed reader and elitists gathering in Copenhagen

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), hailing from a state that is flat broke, wants a 946-page climate bill passed faster than his fellow Democrats can read it.If the climate change (formerly known as global warming, formerly known as global cooling) enthusiasts have their way, Americans will soon absorb the heavy aftershock of science heavily compressed to fit political consensus. By aftershock I mean the transfer of our dollars to the pockets of others around the globe. By political consensus I mean those who ascribe to the theology preached by Al Gore. Thus it is with scorn that I mention today’s story in The Wall Street Journal, alerting taxpayers to the fact we are now paying a speed reader to absorb the 946-page bill that will impact every single facet of our lives. Hopefully the federal reader is able to comprehend on a level equivalent to his speed.

Coincidentally, is the federal speed reader a factor in consideration of a taxpayer class action lawsuit?

From the moment you open your eyes in the morning to the moment you close them at night, your life will be affected by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress’ policies on energy—a Puritan approach to the management of air. This is third in a line of Democratic-induced bubbles, preceded by the dot.com boom and bust and the mortgage/lending boom and bust. There is no glory in a fractured bubble, but the halleluiahs as the bubble expands are a sight to behold.

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US funds for Iran's nuke program: at odds with Supreme Court decision?

Updated on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 11:53AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

The cooling towers of the Grundremmingen nuclear power plant in Germany. Photo by Petr Pavlicek / IAEA.It came as no surprise to me when I read in The Wall Street Journal (Mar. 31) that Iran is among “four countries designated by the U.S. as terrorism sponsors” who are recipients of $55 million from a “U.S.-supported program promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy…” You’d think that story would be up front and center in pop media, but it was completely overlooked. Nothing surprises me anymore.

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Why does Russian arrogance towards Georgia get a pass?

Updated on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 7:10PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

For a completely negligent account of the upheaval in Georgia, you need only look at Al Jazeera. That website offers a narrative similar to that being told by some American media. Al Jazeera quotes Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of what was the Soviet Union, in an excerpt from his opinion piece in The Washington Post on Tuesday, "By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its 'national interest,' the United States made a serious blunder."
Gorbachev and much of Western media suffer from elective amnesia.

A scant 4 years ago, The L.A. Times, certainly no bastion of conservatism, ran a story about Georgia with the following headline, “Putin Backs U.S. Involvement in Georgia.” (March 2, 2002) Putin’s exact words were that the involvement was “no tragedy.”

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