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This week five corporations, including BP and ConocoPhillips, dropped out of the US Climate Action Partnership (a.k.a. USCAP, with an emphasis on the 'CAP') an industry lobbyist group that sought to mollify the most aggressive instincts of 'green' and government organizations while at the same time advance the environmentalist agenda. USCAP's membership is chock full of corporations that will not benefit from cap and trade laws, yet they lobbied for them. One might assume that five brave corporations saw that global warming is more political than science based, and they made a principled stand by dropping out of USCAP. The real reason is more pedestrian, and a little sad.
This week, the Colorado Legislature debated HB1001, a proposal to require utilities to get 30% of their electricity from so called renewable energy sources within ten years, up from close to zero today. Not only is the proposal ill-conceived and expensive, it is technically impossible too. Best of all, according to Colorado Democrats, utility rates [...]
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther vandalized a church door with a nail; also, he hung his treatise on indulgences on that nail and changed the world. While selling indulgences is clearly an act of chicanery to modern minds, our critical ability to differentiate God’s authority from church authority is largely accredited to Luther and [...]
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