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Is There a Hydrogen Car in Your Future?
Jamie Lee Curtis loves her Honda Clarity in Star Garnet Metallic. (Honda promotional photo.)
A couple of weeks back, I blogged about the State of California’s use of monthly user fees on utilities to create massive programs to benefit alternative energy (“Robbin’ the ‘Hood”: California’s Green Energy Schemes Benefit the Well-Connected). One of the highlighted programs will build 10 refueling stations for hydrogen vehicles at a cost of $15 million. That’s chump change compared to the $1.6 billion total the state spends to encourage green programs, but at $66,000 per H2 vehicle currently on the road, it seems a bit … lavish.
But what the hey, we all claim to have an “all of the above” approach to energy, right? We need to start building infrastructure for the hydrogen-based economy of the future, and there’s no time like the present … Who’s with me?
Hydrogen cars make sense until you look under the hood. Continue reading
The check is in the mail. It’s only a cold sore. Mary Landrieu says you can keep your healthcare plan.
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‘We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices.’ Oh yeah?!
But you and I both know that with only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, we can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices – not when consume 20 percent of the world’s oil.
— Barack Obama, March 10, 2012
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R.I.P. Lou Reed #rsrh
Some people like to go out dancing
And other people, they gotta work
And there’s even some evil mothers
Who tell you everything is just dirt.
And women never really faint,
and villans always blink their eyes.
And children are the only ones who blush.
‘Cause life is just to die.
But anyone who has a heart
wouldn’t turn around and break it…
and anyone who ever played the part
wouldn’t turn around and fake it…
—Sweet Jane
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/arts/music/lou-reed-dies-at-71.html?_r=0
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“Robbin’ the ‘Hood”: California’s Green Energy Schemes Benefit the Well-Connected
You know those odd little charges at the bottom of your utility bill? In California, electricity customers pay average fees of $24 per year, plus $12 per year if they also use natural gas, for the benefit of alternative energy programs. Those charges add up; a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. A report in the Sunday Los Angeles Times casts a skeptical eye on the Golden State’s “investment” in alternative energy. According to a legislative analyst’s office report, the state’s green largesse will soon tally some $2.5 billion per year, more than it spends on its expansive University of California system.
California’s alternative-energy program under scrutiny
California is spending nearly $15 million to build 10 hydrogen fueling stations, even though just 227 hydrogen-powered vehicles exist in the state today.
In case you don’t have a calculator handy, that’s $66,000 per vehicle currently on the road. Continue reading
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The 10 Most Ridiculous Entries on HuffPo’s ‘Shutdown Trickle-Down’ List
A Huffington Post article/Top 50 list on the government shutdown (“The Government Shutdown Trickle-Down: 50 Effects Of The Budget Standstill”) purports to document the crushing impact of the legislative impasse on the nation, but left me wondering how serious they are. True to HuffPo form, this is click-trolling dressed up as journalism.
Here are my favorite ten entries from the list, plus a bonus for good measure:
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Trip Hazard? Better Call Saul!
Someday I’m gonna own a coffee shop.
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