Energy Policy

[Updated 10 PM].  Yesterday Congressman Dennis Moore held an invitation-only meeting at Johnson County Community College.  Apparently Dennis Moore feels the average citizen has little interest in what the government may do with health care in this country.
Today Moore addressed the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce at their luncheon. This was not a free event [...]

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At a White House press conference today President Obama and Energy Secretary Chu revealed several actions they claimed would promote energy efficiency while saving Americans billions of dollars annually.
Some of the mandates include forced changes on energy conservation standards for household and commercial lighting and forced changes on incandescent and fluorescent lamps.
My wife has already [...]

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News stories yesterday revealed that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius disclosed that she and her husband would need to divest investments in three stocks and a mutual fund to avoid a conflict of interest as HHS Secretary. This suggests many questions:
Why were some of these investments not a conflict of interest for Sebelius as Governor?  Are the [...]

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Earl Glynn on March 21st, 2009

The Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) held their Clean Energy Day II on Thursday at the State Capitol in Topeka.
A number of speakers from mostly left-leaning organizations spoke at the event about various aspects of clean energy, especially wind energy, which is plentiful in Kansas at times.
The public address system for the event [...]

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Today I drove by the Jeffrey Energy Center in Pottawatomie County north of St. Marys. I noticed the plumes from the coal plants showed the wind was almost still (see below). The two windmills at the Jeffrey Energy Center (left) were not moving at all so they were not generating any of [...]

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