The Hayride

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Baton Rouge) took to the airwaves this morning, appearing with Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) on CNBC to talk about the CLEAR Act, which goes to a House vote today. Cassidy’s got a lot of facts. Pallone? Watch it and decide if this guy knows anything other than how to pile up that [...]

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(Hat Tip – Cong. Bill Cassidy via Twitter) A summary of the Senate Energy Bill, which will likely be debated on the Senate Floor tomorrow, is summarized and analyzed here.  It is essentially another federal bureaucracy that generates a CBO estimated $22.2billion in gross revenue offset by $20.5billion in costs, of which $14billion will be [...]

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As the unfortunate process of moving the CLEAR Act – which would restrict oil and gas exploration through a series of harmful regulations and new taxes – toward a floor vote in the House of Representatives continues, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a step yesterday to carry water for President Obama and against the people [...]

Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill Cassidy, Congress, Energy, Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Haynesville Shale, John Fleming, Nancy Pelosi, Obamoratorium | 4938No Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/07/pelosi-nixes-independent-investigation-of-oil-spill-from-clear-act/Pelosi+Nixes+Independent+Investigation+Of+Oil+Spill+From+CLEAR+Act2010-07-29+14%3A12%3A54macaoidh

Heading to the House floor this week is yet another legislative bullet aimed at the heart of Louisiana industry. The CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) is being sold as Congress’ response to the Gulf oil spill but in typical House of Representatives fashion, it’s loaded with crap. And virtually everything the bill offers as a solution [...]

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The Church of the Warming Globe is losing its fire, and global warming extremists have grown increasingly desperate in their efforts to convert the masses to their religion.  Those missionary’s still actively trying to convert the unbelievers and save us all from extinction are meeting increasing skepticism when they’re not being outright laughed at. Pat [...]

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Again. (For now.) Some are predicting that the resurrection will occur after the November elections. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) will bring legislation to the Senate floor next week that includes select energy policy and oil-spill response measures, but which excludes policy aimed at lowering “greenhouse gas emissions.”  Such climate change legislation had already [...]

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Here they are… Running full blast, a car’s air conditioner dramatically increases levels of noxious exhaust in the surrounding air, guaranteeing that other drivers will have to keep their windows closed and the air running. In that, as in many other ways — by aggravating global warming, by encouraging poor building ventilation, by increasing our [...]

Filed under: Business, Economy, Energy, Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Obamoratorium, The Left | 47234 Comments »http://thehayride.com/2010/07/who-are-the-people-standing-in-the-way-of-offshore-drilling/Who+Are+The+People+Standing+In+The+Way+Of+Offshore+Drilling%3F2010-07-20+04%3A40%3A05macaoidh

For previous updates on the BP oil spill: Thread #6: June 29-July 9 Thread #5: June 15-June 25 Thread #4: June 1-June 14 Thread #3: May 26-June 1 Thread #2: May 17-May 26 Thread #1: April 29-May 14 7-19-10, 4:15 p.m. – From this afternoon’s Thad Allen briefing, the new stack atop the Macondo well [...]

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You’ll remember the scandal within the scientific community of the global warming movement, or more specifically the anthropogenic (“man caused”) global warming movement.  Hacked and released emails exchanged by the scientists involved revealed willful dismissal of noncorroborative data, of collusion among researchers, and of forcing favorable results while concealing unfavorable results.  Their findings were all [...]

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A multidisciplinary study recently released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests something we have been saying for some time; natural gas is the obvious energy choice for the generation of electricity and as a transportation fuel as we gravitate away from oil derivatives and coal.  

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