Cato Podcast: The False Promise of Green Energy

Making Colorado less competitive

The Colorado Renewable Energy Standard requires that investor-owned power companies must produce 30 percent of their power from "renewable energy" in fewer than nine years. Not to be outdone, some "clean energy" advocates assert Boulder can have 80 percent renewable by 2025. Trying to legislate such fantasies has real world consequences: Renewable energy is expensive -- more than double the cost of using natural gas or coal. It is available only intermittently -- Germany, an aggressive wind energy jurisdiction, reports a capacity utilization rate of just 15.5 percent during 2010. Making energy more expensive and less reliable will hurt Colorado`s economy.


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High Energy Costs: Factor in California Business Exodus

Are we running out of resources?

A very important 4 minute video from Learn Liberty:

This is Your World On Climate Appeasement

This is an interesting note from American Spectator:

By CHRIS HORNER on 3.22.11

Just because the lead option for skinning that cat cap-n-trade is defeated (for now) and climate science is in retreat, doesn't mean lots of money hasn't been thrown at rehabilitating it (it has) and that alarmism and all that comes with it won't make a run at a comeback (it will...nothing with the returns being banked on by the global warming industry will ever go away gracefully simply because of little things like being discredited and economically ruinous).

So, see the future, if the R candidate in the upcoming 2012 opportunity to draw contrasts decides it's better to sidestep the issue rather than risk (gasp) controversy. It's on full display Down Under (no, this isn't aimed only at you, Mitt).

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