Solar Follies Spain has provided an object lesson in how not to do things. Ben Sills, writing in The Guardian, says Solar investors were lured by a 2007 law passed by the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero that guaranteed producers a so-called solar tariff of as much as 44 cents per kilowatt-hour…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was November 11, 2010
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT Quote of the Week “…but OMB and Treasury found severe problems with ‘the economic integrity of government support for renewables.'” – WSJ Report on an internal White House Memo Number of the Week 65.8 GWe to 0.7 GWe This Week By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy…
Ken VanDoren
Short Takes By Ken VanDoren
“It should be your care, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their …
Candidates Corner
What happened November 2nd
By Keith Best Yes, it was an election day. But not a run of the mill average election day. I can sum it up in three words but I’ll get to that later. Wisconsin went from a blue state to a red state overnight. Scott Walker won and will become our next governor, a solid…
Candidates Corner, Ken VanDoren
Defund the Left
By Ken Van Doren During the recent campaign season, two incidents in particular caught my eye. First, a friend pointed out that there was an ad from Planned Parenthood on Craig’s List, advertising for help. The new employee was to do door-todoor canvassing in support of “women’s and progressive” issues. Recall that Planned Parenthood has…
Government Circus
Maxine poses a good question….
Let me get this straight . . . . We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee…