I guess I'm just a dim bulb - By Patrice Lewis

With all the current financial chaos, global pandemonium and spiraling economy, or the dangers from terrorism, you'll be glad to know that the U.S. government is hard at work protecting us from a threat so vile and dangerous that it dwarfs all those other petty international and domestic concerns we face as a nation: The incandescent light bulb. read more | digg story

Tithing in the Church of the Green God

A France-based organization called the International Energy Agency — which is, of course, accountable to no one, so a favorite bully of global do-gooders — today provided a price tag for saving the world from the phony climate crisis. Brace yourself (you, too, polar bears): $45 trillion.

TOKYO — The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday. The report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency envisions a "energy revolution" that would greatly reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining steady economic growth.

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