InfrastructureTX soaring way above CA in energy productionMonday, May 6th, 2013 May 6, 2013 By John Seiler The California fantasy is that energy magically will flow in abundance from windmills and solar panels, even when there's no wind and at night. The reality is that it's old-fashioned "fossil" fuels that will continue to generate almost all our power for the next c... Feinstein, Boxer stymie water, power & wildlife for Lake McClureSaturday, May 4th, 2013 May 4, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi New York Times journalist Peter Passell once wrote: “California’s water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip.” And as the 1960s hippies would have put it, the trip would have been a bummer. San Joaquin Valley farmers must ... Only hope for further state bullet train $$ is goneWednesday, May 1st, 2013 May 1, 2013 By Chris Reed We've seen some very good reporting about the bullet-train fiasco from around the state. The two best recent examples are stories outlining the chicanery in the bidding process for the contractor for the first segment and describing how the California High-Speed Rail ... Blackout summer bummer?Sunday, April 21st, 2013April 21, 2013 By John Seiler All California's anti-energy activism might take a toll this summer with potential blackouts like we had back in 2000-01 during the California Electricity Crisis. The San Onofre nuke plant is down. Hydro power is down. AB 32 and other regulations discourage buildi... Latest numbers: No ‘global warming’Tuesday, April 16th, 2013April 16, 2013 By John Seiler AB 32 officially is the "Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006." It coerces sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in California to 1990 levels by 2020. Now that the latest evidence keeps showing there is no global warming, do you think Gov. Jerry Brown will sus... CEQA chases awesome Google project to Missouri, TexasSaturday, April 13th, 2013 April 13, 2013 By Chris Reed A really cool project conceived of and developed by Google in Silicon Valley isn't going to do Californians any good in the short term. It is Google Fiber — the search giant's experimental Internet infrastructure that can go 100 times the speed of regular broadba... House GOP whip: Folly to expect fed $ for bullet trainFriday, April 12th, 2013April 12, 2013 By Chris Reed There's a double-whammy targeting the bullet train on the op-ed page of Friday's U-T San Diego newspaper. First House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, tees off on the state's assumption that federal dollars will cover most of the cost of the project.... Not just in China: The corrupt act that got CA bullet train passedFriday, April 12th, 2013 April 12, 2013 By Chris Reed The news that the former head of China's bullet-train program is facing corruption charges probably prompts some Californians to wonder if any of the people who aggressively lied Proposition 1A to passage in 2008 should face similar charges. This may seem far-fe... Wall Street doubts CA shale hype — but not OccidentalThursday, April 11th, 2013 April 11, 2013 By Chris Reed Bloomberg News, which is doing an increasingly good job covering California of late, had an important article Wednesday about likely problems in developing the Golden State's massive shale reserves. Those reserves could transform the state's economy, according to a... |