But Nike says, “reducing our own contributions toward climate change is a primary aim of our sustainability strategy.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Capitalists v. capitalism
Study: Running shoes leave large carbon footprint
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change, Green hell
Tesla CEO quits Zuckerberg group over Keystone XL, oil drilling advocacy
“I agreed to support Fwd.us because there is a genuine need to reform immigration. However, this should not be done at the expense of other important causes,” Musk told AllThingsD. Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism
Obama Motors calls for action on climate
GM also belonged to the ill-fated US Climate Action Partnership. Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change
Memo to PERC: The Nature Conservancy is not a free-market solution to anything
While insurance is a free-market solution to weather risk, the multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-subsidized, connive-to-remove-land-from-productive use, corrupt green scam known as The Nature Conservancy is not something a free-market think tank like PERC should be advocating. Continue reading
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GE Capital cuts off funding to small gun stores
“GE Capital is still doing business with merchants with more diverse lines of business, including Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest seller of guns and ammunition, and Dick’s Sporting Goods, he added.” Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Gun control
‘Shareholders’ File First-Ever ‘Carbon Bubble’ Resolutions
“Shareholder activists are concerned that fossil fuels could become unburnable because of climate laws—and they want firms to divulge the financial risks.” Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism
Oxfam: Big Food failing on CSR goals
The so-called corporate social responsibility movement is a fraud. Continue reading
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Government-Rentseeker Complex: Exelon offers to help EPA with major anti-coal regulation
Courtesy of Chris Horner, an e-mail from nuclear utility Exelon offering to help EPA with its anti-coal utility MACT regulation. Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Coal, EPA
Wanted: Business leaders to aid President Obama on climate
Obama: Calling all rent-seekers. Continue reading
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University of Oxford to identify ‘stranded’ high carbon assets
“Investors continue to deploy hundreds of billions of pounds into polluting and unsustainable sectors.” Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change
FT: Climate change influences investment risk
The march continues to scare institutional investors away from fossil fuel-based portfolios. Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change
The curious case of Climate Week’s disappearing EDF logo
“Can corporate sponsorship of green campaigns ever be squared?” Continue reading
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Davos strives to make climate talk more than hot air
Dow CEO Andrew Liveris is still a blowhard for carbon regulation. Continue reading
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change
GE CEO: Chinese communism ‘works’
Apparently still longing for cap-and-trade, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt tells Charlie Rose, “… The one thing that actually works, state run communism a bit -– may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.” [Weekly Standard]
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism
Exxon for carbon tax with conditions
“A carbon tax should be made revenue neutral via tax offsets in other areas.” [Bloomberg]
Posted in Capitalists v. capitalism, Climate Change
Duke Energy CEO Picks Obama Over Romney on Energy
Gosh, a rent-seeking subsidy farmer prefers the Obama Administration over having to actually produce anything and compete in the open market. Go figure… Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Capitalists v. capitalism, Crony capitalism
Tagged rent seeking, subsidy farming
Big Green Machine – GE makes $21 billion a year on “clean energy”
GE — A clean energy revenue machine – GE is so large that its annual revenue ($150 billion) is greater than New Zealand’s gross domestic product ($140.43 billion). But GE stands to profit in solving man-man global warming, whereas New Zealand will just pay. Continue reading
Investors react to climate change risk
Another drag on the economy. Anti-capitalists have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams with this ridiculous assault on affordable energy. To think that the only really functional economic system can be so severely harmed by dioxycarbophobia and weather superstition… a system which survived radical Islamic terrorism could be felled by eco-terrorism. Continue reading
Lynne Kiesling: Edison to Enron (Bradley): Some Thoughts
Consider the preconceptions that surface in your mind when you read the name “Enron”. Chances are that they are negative, and not particularly nuanced — fraudulent business activity, tarnishing the idea of free markets by trying to manipulate them using the political process, and so on. Continue reading
UK Energy Policies Are Sabotaging Industry’s Global Competitiveness
Britain risks becoming a world leader in energy taxation. Continue reading
