Environment
Reason TV: The Truth About Fracking
By marfdrat on June 28, 2011
I’m sure you’ve heard noise of one kind or another (most likely negative) about fracking, a technique used to extract natural gas from the earth. Lots of people are up in arms about fracking (I think they just like saying it – “fracking” has a nice ring, doesn’t it?). Nick Gillespie of Reason TV interviews [...]
Posted in Eco-Bullsh*t, Economics & Politics | Tagged algore, carbon-based fuels, eco-bullsh*t, Energy, Environment, green, green energy, hydrocarbons, natural gas, renewable energy, utopian schemes | Leave a response
The Recycling Dialogue: Are We Really Running Out of Natural Resources?
By marfdrat on October 3, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I wrote a post a week or so ago about Community Recycling programs, and what a waste of resources they are. Really, it was just a commentary on someone else’s work, with some of my own opinion thrown in. A few comments were proffered; some agreeing whole-heartedly, others disagreeing with various aspects [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Environment, Julian Simon, Natural resource, Population growth, Recycling, The Skeptical Environmentalist, Ultimate Resource | Leave a response
Get Excited About Recycling? Um, not me.
By marfdrat on September 19, 2010
I don’t often see public declarations that mirror my own thoughts on the mindless waste of resources (including time spent Image via Wikipedia sorting household trash) that is recycling. It came to mind because I’m getting ready to make a trip to the county landfill with some trash. My wife makes an attempt to do [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Cafe Hayek, Environment, George Mason University, Jeff Jacoby, Landfill, Recycling | Leave a response
The environmental disaster that, well, wasn’t
By marfdrat on July 29, 2010
It appears that even the lame-stream media (LSM) is starting to get it: there isn’t really an “environmental disaster” in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion was a terrible tragedy for the workers who were killed and their families. The resulting oil spill, touted nightly on news reports with dramatic “Day x” [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, deepwater horizon, Environment, Exxon Valdez, Gulf of Mexico, ixtoc, kuwait, New York Times, Offshore drilling, rahm emanuel, Rush Limbaugh | Leave a response
Robert Reich urges Obama to Nationalize BP – Yeah, that’s the ticket.
By marfdrat on June 1, 2010
Yep. This is exactly what we need – the government should put BP into “temporary (when has there ever been a temporary government program?) receivership” so they can “ensure BP’s strategy is correct…” This is laughable. It’s clear the Obama administration has no idea how to deal with the problem, and has admitted as much [...]
Posted in Economics & Politics | Tagged economy, Environment, idiots, obama, reich | Leave a response







