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On Wednesday the Kansas Energy Council sponsored a presentation on cap and trade by Dr. Robert Repetto. Repetto is an environmental economist recently retired from Yale University, who currently works for the UN Foundation. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the London School of Economics.

Larry Kudlow nails it, again. As much as I love Palin’s speech Kudlow correctly points out that it failed to connect our current economic slump to rising energy costs which are as a direct result of failed Democrat policy. In fact, Democrats want higher energy prices and seek to tax our companies through cap and trade which would crush our economy.

Negative Signal on (NY) State Carbon Pact (NY Times)

Fertilizer use and climate change. Unfortunately, choice words you rarely hear used in the same sentence. With so much focus given to emissions from transportation and industry, lesser known, but equally important factors like fertilizer use are often overlooked.

I wrote a piece last week arguing that McCain / Palin was my energy/cleantech dream ticket, and promptly got slammed by my readers on the left (who generally think McCain's plans for the environment /cleantech investing are nowhere near aggressive enough and that Palin is way too conservative), AND friends on the right (who think that Palin is anti-Big Oil).

Australia may be taking the first steps in abandoning the cap-and-trade scheme in favor of a direct carbon tax. While this isn’t certainly the best news to come out of the global warming hoax, the article’s author does make a valid point: a tax is much easier to repeal than an economic takeover [...]

Way back in 1992, two fledgling expansion franchises joined the NHL as Ottawa and Tampa Bay were granted membership into the NHL. Both teams assembled a group of players who were unknowns or past their primes, and sprinkled in a few young stars from the NHL draft.

Back in November, 2006 I contributed the inaugural post for Terra Rossa describing our blog as a place where conservatives could discuss a new energy future in which new jobs are created through research, Creation is protected through reduced greenhouse gas pollution, and our national security is improved through less dependence on foreign oil.

Morning Bell: Obama’s Speech vs. the Progressive Agenda Posted August 29th, 2008 at 9.15am in Energy and Environment, Entrepreneurship, Health Care. DENVER — The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank. We are not experts on what the left wants.

(Editor’s Note: Please be sure to check out Cavalier Attitude’s complimentary portion of this two-part series) By now, we are sure that most of you were able to catch a recent piece by Patrick McManamon of the Akron Beacon-Journal in which he laid out some pretty solid details regarding  the future