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RepublicEn or RepublicEnron? (Bob Inglis’s futile crusade for carbon taxation)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 17, 2014

Voters blasted climate alarmism at the ballot box earlier this month, just as South Carolina Republicans voters fired Rep. Robert Inglis for his climate alarmism back in 2011. Yet, Obama-like, the now head of Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University has launched a new website, republicEn.org and written an inaugural blog post about the post-election prospects for enacting a carbon tax.

In trying to sell Republicans on a carbon tax to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, Inglis insists on calling himself a Republican and free-marketer. Since 2012, his EEI has engaged in ” a nationwide public engagement campaign promoting conservative and free-enterprise solutions to energy and climate challenges.” Wiki also describes his work “to build support for energy policies that are true to conservative principles of limited government, accountability, reasonable risk-avoidance, and free enterprise.”…

AWEA’s Case against the PTC Extension

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 14, 2014

“The private sector can be expected to develop improved solar and wind technologies which will begin to become competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D.”

– American Wind Energy Association, et al. (1983). Quoted in Renewable Energy Industry, Joint Hearing before the Subcommittees of the Committee on Energy and Commerce et al., House of Representatives, 98th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983), p. 52.

What more can be said?

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Americans for Prosperity: Keep the PTC Expired (Obama supply-side energy strategy on the ropes)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 11, 2014

“A vote for the PTC is a vote in support of President Obama’s destructive climate action plan.”

You can’t beat something with nothing, the anti-consumer, anti-taxpayer environmental Left knows. So even they must have a supply-side strategy to go along with their demand-side strategy of conservationism, or less usage for its own sake.

The anti-fossil-fuel strategy is not nuclear, despite efforts by James Hansen, Breakthrough Institute, and others to legitimize this mass, low-carbon energy source. It is not hydropower either. Biomass is out for the most part.

What is left? There is tiny solar with barely any central station plants (Ivanpah is one of the controversial few.)

That leaves windpower! And this is why resurrecting the expired Production Tax Credit for the umpteenth time is so critically important for the mirage of climate stabilization to continue.

Dear GOP: Don’t Rescue Obama Energy Policy with PTC Extension (lame duck peril)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 7, 2014

Political Economy 101 (Watch the Republicans Closely)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2014

Halloween Thoughts from Obama’s Science Advisor

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2014

“Voltage Collapse and Blackout Conditions”: EPA’s Power Plant Rule Trashed by SPP

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 28, 2014

‘Energy Independence’: A Dirty Dozen (Economist Grossman’s list)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 27, 2014

Virginia to Gina: Your Power Plant Rule Is “Arbitrary, Capricious, and Unlawful”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 21, 2014

“The State of Energy: Strong and Transformative” (Exxon Mobil’s Tillerson Right On)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 15, 2014