Posted on October 26th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a multibillion-dollar federally owned and operated corporation that was established in 1933 in an effort to bring electricity and development to some of the most underdeveloped parts of the Southeastern United States. TVA’s nonpower responsibilities include recreational programs, the promotion of public use of federal land and water resources, [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Since the Department of Energy was founded in 1977, it has owned and operated four Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs). The largest of these is the Southeastern Power Administration, which consists of 23 hydro-electric projects in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, southern Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The PMAs sell energy at low, [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Today, the Daily Waste is looking into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and finding savings to be had. The 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) created 104 million acres of wilderness areas, national parks, and wildlife refuges, including the 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). ANILCA stipulated that potential petroleum reserves should [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine the ENERGY STAR program and ways to save within it. The ENERGY STAR program, a joint venture between the Energy Department and the EPA, started in 1992 as a voluntary labeling program to identify energy-efficient products. It includes a “Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR” messaging program and funded [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2012 by Maddie Eldridge
Imagine if the government passed a law requiring you to purchase either a specified number of pink elephants or government-issued “pink elephant credits.” This is, in essence, what the government is doing to oil companies: requiring them to purchase a nonexistent product or purchase credits for a nonexistent product. The seeds of this nonsensical policy [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2012 by Tom Schatz
In the past week, following the publication of my May 22 Washington Times op-ed, where I pointed out that “The result of the ‘investment’ made by ‘Obama Capital,’ which has used hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money to ‘create jobs,’ has been a persistent 8 percent unemployment rate and annual trillion dollar-plus [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2012 by Tom Schatz
Marc Theissen’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post is a great addition to the growing response to President Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital. He makes the case in a clear, concise and factual manner. The title of Marc’s op-ed is a perfect description of its contents: “Forget Bain — Obama’s public-equity record is the real scandal.” He describes outlandish [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
It has clearly not been a good year for Energy Secretary Stephen Chu. The $500 million Solyndra scandal attracted a slew of scorching media stories; the more light that is shed on that story, the uglier it gets. The Obama administration must be doing some sort of polling on the subject and getting alarming results because, after initially shrugging [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Tom Schatz
The devastating consequences to national security from the automatic cuts of $600 billion that will occur in January 2013 have been made clear by top Pentagon officials and leading members of Congress. While President Obama has made stated that he will force Congress to stick to the plan set in place by the failure of [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
The devastating consequences to national security from the automatic cuts of $600 billion that will occur if the Super Committee does not reach an agreement have been made clear by top Pentagon officials and leading members of Congress. Proposals that have been provided to help the Super Committee achieve its mandate of $1.2 trillion in [...]
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