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Dig at Green Jobs
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Turns out some stimulus jobs were actually more shovel ready than we thought. Solyndra, a solar energy company with half a billion in federal funding, was one of several to assume room temperature this week.
Heavy Water
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Just as people were warming up to nuclear power again, along comes an 8.9 (update: 9.0).
Fearing another Chernobyl, Congressman Ed Markey wants to take this opportunity to suspend the licensing of new reactors here. William Tucker, in the WSJ, says he’s over-reacting.
James Delingpole, in The Telegraph, agrees and so does Josh Dzieza in The Daily Beast. Their consensus is that flooding the reactors with seawater means the utility owner is toast but nobody dies.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
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How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Voltwagon
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Fredrich Hayek’s 1944 classic Road to Serfdom has become a best seller again. He said that governments tend to plan production for political, rather than market, purposes. Government owned GM’s new Volt costs $41,000, runs on a battery, and gets 40 miles per charge.
You Know The Drill
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The Law-Enforcer-In-Chief responded to two court rulings overturning his deep water drilling ban by ordering a new deep water drilling ban. Here’s the story in Bloomberg Businessweek.
President Canute
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Obama accepted the Democratic nomination two years ago by remarking that the occasion marked the moment when “our planet began to heal” and the “rise of the oceans began to slow”. Mark Steyn riffs on the subject here.
Daddy Carville
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The president is getting it from all sides on the oil spill. James Carville wants Obama to take charge and tell BP, “I’m your daddy“.
BPtui
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From Top Kills to Junk Shots BP looks like a company without an exit strategy.