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Archive for the 'Environment' Category

10
Feb

Best Buy to Accept E-Waste

Apparently all Best Buy stores will be accepting E-Waste. Starting Feb. 15, consumers can bring up to two units per day, per household, for recycling at any U.S. Best Buy store. The company will accept most consumer electronics, including televisions and monitors up to 32 inches, computer CPUs and notebooks, small electronics, VCR and DVD [...]

10
Dec

Baby Tax

An Australian medical “expert” is calling for a $5000 tax for newborn babies and a carbon tax of $800 per child.  He goes continues with something even more absurd: Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and [...]

05
Jul

Les Jones Blogs Live Earth

Les Jones has created a blog about the Live Earth concerts. You can view the blog at http://www.rockstarsagainstliveearth.com/. Here is an excerpt about this blog: I created this page in response to Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts, which seem to be a pointless and counterproductive display of ego. I had been covering Live Earth at [...]

22
Mar

Dean Barnett’s take on the Al Gore Pledge

Funny stuff.

22
Mar

Gore Continues to Do One Thing; Say Another

Al Gore refused today to take the Personal Energy Ethics PledgeThis pledge, presented by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, says: As a believer: · that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival; · that home energy use is a key component [...]

13
Mar

Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage

The Recorder is reporting that the Toyota Prius does more environmental damage that the Hummer. Check out the article for all the details, but here are some high points. You would be right if you went by the old government EPA estimates, which netted the Prius an incredible 60 miles per gallon in the city [...]

13
Mar

Daylight Savings Time

I think the change in the Daylight Savings Time that was part of the energy policy passed by Congress and signed into law by Bush is phenomenal. Extra daylight is great. This gives me more time for golf in the evening or allows me to run while it is still light. I also think it [...]

28
Feb

Al Gore

I don’t care what Al Gore says, he is a hypocrite in regards to the environment. I also don’t care which side of the Global Warming argument you are on. Simply live what you believe. Don’t say one thing and then fly all over the world on a jet and use 20 times more energy [...]

02
Feb

Illegal To Leave Cars Running in Nashville

Say Uncle is talking about a story out of Nashville. Many people start their cars in the morning before a commute to warm it up before they use it, but one man was given a ticket for it, and he said police have gone too far. Steve Hatfield said he and his business partners were [...]

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