Japanese-Built Prius Carries Energy Bill

When Congress sent an energy bill to President Bush for his signature, it arrived in a Japanese-built Toyota Prius hybrid — a move that rubbed two Michigan Republicans the wrong way.

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Arkansans would save about $340 a year on their utility bills by 2020 and gain about 5,600 new jobs under a clean energy bill before the U.S. Senate, environmentalists said in a report released Wednesday.

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The Global Warming Religion

Just as medieval knights rushed to foreign lands with a religious fervor ungrounded in introspection, modern day advocates of anti-global warming legislation rush to pass economically disastrous climate change legislation with a religious passion relatively impervious to objectiv …

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Barak Obama - I think I Just Figured Him Out.

Okay - sometimes I'm a bit slower than other folks, so if you or someone else has already figured out what I think I just figured out, well, never mind. You already know what I'm going to say so you can wander off and have a beer or something.

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With health care town halls generating all the heat this August, global warming legislation has been left to simmer on the back burner.

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What I've Learned from my Last Split Air Conditioner

The global warming has wrecked havoc on the earth as the temperature is rising and touching a new high every year. The people across the globe are suffering from the ill effects of global warming.

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The fresh news about Washington--the White House and Congress--is that things are not going very well.

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Is this real? For those of you who have real estate for sale or rent, be advised that the Cap and Trade energy bill that passed the House last Friday and will be before the Senate week after next for a vote, there are the following provisions:

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U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd is opposing "cap and trade" legislation pushed by the Obama administration.

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Excerpt: ""House Republicans don't have any ideas, but they do have a bag of tricks -- courtesy of their leader, John Boehner. These are the people with whom the President wants to work. But, the House Republicans act like a bunch of frat boys. ""

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Roanoke television station WDBJ-TV, announced they will be refusing to air a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) ad attacking freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), citing factual inaccuracies.

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The NRCC, the Republican Party campaign committee tasked with electing more House Republicans, announced today that it will be running television and radio ads against Democratic members of Congress who voted for the Waxman-Markey clean energy economy legislation passed last week.

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Buchanan: ...this is a hoax and a scam which is designed to transfer wealth and power from the private sector to the government sector and from the government of the United States to a world government.

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excerpt: ""Yesterday, House Republicans unveiled their alternative to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), energy reform legislation that sets standards for renewable energy and global warming pollution. After Rep.

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Get a load of this. This would be a funny skit on Saturday Night Live, but this actually took place in our Congress yesterday. The proposed 964 page green energy bill ...

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As the clock ticks on a self-imposed deadline, Rep. Henry Waxman is facing fire from all sides over his landmark measure to curb carbon emissions.

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Facing a growing image problem, a 78-seat deficit in the House of Representatives and soon to be on the short end of a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, Republicans set out this week to try and recast the Grand Old Party with voters by focusing on an issue Democrats have y …

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Most of the pollution emission permits that industry would need under a climate change bill being negotiated in the U.S. House of Representatives will initially be given to companies, instead of sold to them, Representative Mike Doyle said on Wednesday.

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If history is any indication, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will become a thorn in the side of Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) once committee debate begins on energy reform.

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Obama administration officials said Wednesday that an ambitious energy and climate-change proposal sponsored by House Democrats could help create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of endorsing it.

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How To Stop Drafts and Save On Energy Bills

Imagine leaving a window open all winter long -- the heat loss, cold drafts and wasted energy! If your home has a folding pull-down attic stair, a whole house fan, a fireplace or clothes dryer, that may be just what is occurring in your home every day.

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Excerpt: Jennifer Miller of CBS4 in Denver reports on a local restaurant that got an eye-popping monthly utility bill of more than $1 million.

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The Newest Energy War is between the Democrat Sponsored Bill - HR 6899 vs the Republican Sponsored Bill HR 6566, the Democrat Sponsored bill HR 6899 has been introduced, voted and passed by the House and is currently before the Senate.

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The desperation of the GOP and their absolute love-slave relationship to Big Oil continues to proliferate.

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Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico Each summer an oxygen-starved, lifeless "dead zone" swells in the Gulf of Mexico from the toxic nitrogen fertilizer that runs off farms in Midwestern corn country.

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A little-noticed provision of the energy bill, which is expected to become law, phases out the 125-year-old bulb in the next four to 12 years in favor of a new generation of energy-efficient lights that will cost consumers more but return their investment in a few months. ...

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