Is there anything more incessant and annoying than the constant talk of “goin’ green!”? (Note: you can’t say it without shortening “going” and adding an exclamation point at the end.) Between five-minute segments on the Today Show and a billion internet blog posts, talking about goin’ green! has become so perfunctory that you wonder if some people just use it to describe an alternative form of anything. Coke or Diet Coke? Diet Coke. I’m goin’ green!

In the name of cutting spending – no, that is not a joke – the White House is cutting $17 billion in non-taxpayer funding for the nuclear fuel depository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This is important because it cuts the legs from the nuclear energy industry out from underneath, as if it wasn’t already regulated to death, by taking away a national place to store and process nuclear waste.

See, this is why you should keep reading BipolarNation.com. Back in June of ‘08 I made an accurate prediction which I will now remind you of.
I was making the point initially because it turned out that a lot of the AIDS awareness stuff was virtually irrelevant for non-homosexuals who didn’t live in Africa. A lot of people were shown to be wrong. But you didn’t hear about it except in one little article some twenty years after the hysteria began.
Using my powerful brain, I immediately noticed a …

Update: A study by the CEI says that temperature fluctuations are mostly due to non-human forces.  The report was suppressed by the EPA, which, like many government programs, needs to justify its own existence by pretending problems are worse than they really are.  The EPA prefers to rely on reports that come from different sources, like the U.N., which didn’t want to include recent data in the IPCC report.
Check out the CEI report (PDF form) here.  It notes that there is “no net warming” in the 21st Century despite an …

The news that Michael Jackson died is so big that last night I had a dream Barack Obama was assassinated – in the dream, the Michael Jackson’s death was still the top story.
In reality, Michael Jackson’s death wouldn’t be bigger than that news story.  But it is big enough to draw attention away from what’s being called the largest tax on Americans in history.
It’s been called both cap-and-trade and cap-and-tax, and what it does is essentially “caps” energy usage and levies a tax when that energy has hit the cap.  …

Note:  This article is also a contribution to the BPN Platform.
One reason that it’s difficult to trust the environmentalist movement is that they don’t embrace nuclear energy as the wonder that it is – clean, safe, reliable, and utterly innovative.  The BPN Platform would emphasize nuclear energy as the energy of the future and of the present, looking to loosen restrictions on building new plants to let private markets get to work.
Current Status of Nuclear Power
Although the United States is the largest producer of nuclear power, France is the largest-percentage …

Conventional wisdom says that oil reserves are limited.  Many believe that we should conserve while we have it, exploring alternative fuels that we can actually grow, recharge, and renew.
But what if oil is a renewable resource?
Thomas Gold, author of Deep Hot Biosphere:  The Myth of Fossil Fuels believes that hydrocarbons like petroleum are actually quite abundant;  not only that, but “fossil” fuels have nothing to do with fossils.
“Astronomers have been able to find that hydrocarbons, as oil, gas and coal are called, occur on many other planetary bodies. They are …

Also known as “H20.”
Penn and Teller start a petition to ban water.
Like Penn says, this might say more about peoples’ tendency to respond to social pressure than actually wanting to ban water. But it’s still funny.

Right now, gas prices aren’t the Most Horrible Thing on Earth, the way they were back when the national average for gas hit $4/gallon. Gas prices have fallen 24 days in a row.
Did you ever think 2008 would be the year that $3.80 gasoline seemed like a welcome break?
Still, the high gas prices and the growing desire to drill for domestic oil can be a money issue for the Republicans. And after the great theatrics the Republicans have been staging at the House, it really seems to be …

This week, Republicans have been gaining ground on the Democrats using – what else? – oil as their fuel.
It’s not hard. Obama’s energy plan is to use more tire gauges. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House, is on vacation while Republicans have been pulling overtime on the House of Representatives floor. It’s embarrassing them.
It also helps that Democrats know nothing about how to fight the “energy crisis.” They actually don’t want to drill domestically. I’ll say that again: they know we have an …