Indeed - it's a pretty piece of work - but how much does it cost? That's really the issue that matters the most. There are beautiful pieces of art out there, but I don't have $30,000 lying around to buy them no matter how much they might cut my power bill. :)

I don't think Republicans complain about 'windmills' as much as they complain about the rather illogical practice of forcibly replacing a cheaper, better energy source with a more expensive one.

This. The average single-family seperate dwelling's power bill is $110 a month. It not a convincing argument to tell people that they should take out a $20,000 loan so they can 'save' $110 a month. Not to mention that you'd need to buy converters, inverters, and batteries. I think we all like the IDEA of wind…

I support an "all of the above" approach. Solar? Sure. Wind? Sure. Thorium/nuclear? Why not? Coal & fossil? Absolutely. Hydro, Thermal, whatever. I say open the floodgates and let's go after them all. I see no reason to artificially limit the market to one thing or another. Use them all.

Weeeeell... It is a bit more complicated than that. The price of oil does indeed effect overall economies because it drives the costs of manufacturing, wholesale, and retail. Manufacturing uses tons of petroleum products, which drives up wholesale costs, which drive up retail costs. Oil is not the "only" driver of…

The problem is that "poor people loans" was political justification used to sell the whole mess, so that's what most people hear about and/or remember the most prominently. The people wanting to repeal G/S were saying stuff like, "How could you possibly 'redline' these poor people away from a chance at the American…

I'm actually writing a book about that... :)

Because there are environmental lobbyists and other activist groups that want to end oil NOW NOW NOW. They push laws and buy politicians, and otherwise try to rig the system in order to make fossil fuels as difficult as possible to use because they are philosophically and 'morally' opposed to oil & coal. It is…

While it is a bit of an exaggeration to say government 'forced' bank to lend money, it is very much true that the government created a system where it was almost a necessity to do so. It was the tail end of the Clinton years when a couple big financial houses (AIG primarily) lobbied with politicians from both sides…

I think you're deliberately and grossly exaggerating the supposed offenses of Fox News, while minimizing or ignoring the offenses of CNN, et al. I've watched them all, and I have no axe to grind against any of them. But I've seen clear, unequivocal bias in all of them. All I can do is shrug and as you to honestly…

I see no effectual difference in John Moody telling employees to conservatively frame thier product and other news agencies being so left-wing that they automatically present every story with a liberal slant as a default. They're both businesses with information as thier product.

Well - in the end - what's the difference? I'm not particularly fussed about HOW a news organization became a biased hotbed of ideological slant. What concerns me is when they ARE slanted, and refuse to admit it.

As far as the LA Time article goes, it is an opinion piece selectively referencing a CMPA study. Since (by very definition) that means you accept the CMPA as a source, then here is the study that definitively analyzes the 2008 election and NOT just the tiny slice that liberals like James Rainey cherry-picked...

The research disproves unsupported opinions that CNN, MSNBC, et al are "unbiased" compared to Fox News...

No - there really isn't. Not on "Man Made" (AGW) global warming. There is no consensus on that. Not even close. The problem is that the Warmies are rolling up thier very much unproved AGW theory into the larger, more established research of global climate temperature increases. No one disputes the small warming…

You know - I've never really quite understood all the Fox News hate out there. Fox slants to the right, no question. But pretty much all the other news outlets slant to the left. Is it really so awful to have one channel in the mix that doesn't tilt liberal?

I don't get these kinds of screeds. I've watched FOX News, and NBC, and CNN, and all the major cable news outlets. All of them are almost exactly the same. They have "News", and they have "Commentary". The "News" is almost all the same stuff on any of them - verbatim. It's funny because you can literally flip…

I think those 'blimp' turbines they are testing are supposed to be pretty good too. Not sure how good either of them are at avoiding all the bird puree' the standard type cause...

But this is only an acceptable solution for about 4 months out of the year.

Sigh. So what exactly are the "more realistic" way to trim car size? People buy cars to fill thier transportations NEEDS, and that covers a gamut of things. A lot of people are rather snarkily implying that all anyone needs is a bike, or a moped, or some other tiny thing. Bullcrap. If every person in the US was a…