The Market, Energy, And Political Page, T+10 -- May 18,2018

From the blog April 9, 2018:

Federal transportation grant program: $500 million / year?

This is hard to believe. Need to fact check. Federal government gives $500 million / year to Planned Parenthood.

One would think with research and sales, Planned Parenthood would be self-supporting.

Now, today: Trump to cut Planned Parenthood funding.

On Friday, the Trump administration will announce a proposed rule to cut taxpayer funding to abortionists like Planned Parenthood under Title X, a program that provides $260 million annually in federal funding for contraception and other “family planning” initiatives.

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Burn Coal, Not Trees

For the life of me, I can't imagine why anyone would want to burn precious, beautiful trees. Wow! How misguided can folks get?

From JoanneNova:

Any day now the giant tree-eating-machine called Drax will be shifting back to coal as Greens and politicians realize they’ve made a planet killing mistake.

Lordy!

At the moment, Drax is supposed to be saving the world and making electricity for the UK by burning trees cut down and shipped from the US.

This temple to carbon neutrality happens to be the largest plant in the UK. It generates about 7% of all the megawatts used there. But a new study by Sterman et al, suggests the Drax plan is backfiring badly.

See why at the linked article.

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Way Too Political

Trump derangement syndrome.  Look at the comments at the linked article. It's clear that the writer is completely off-base. Or nuts. Or deranged.

In case the link is broken, "Obama's Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed," Andrew Sullivan, in New York Magazine. What a doofus.