“Clean coal” has always seemed to be an oxymoron, a phrase with words that do not belong in the same thought. Having seen the soot-coated buildings in British cities, the yellow tinged smoke pouring from the stacks of power plants around Tampa Bay, and the enormous bag houses often used to capture most of the…
Guest Letters By Tom McClintock Reprinted with permission of the author Sacramento, where bad ideas never die. Sacramento is once again host to a variety of plans for the government takeover of California’s power system. The private sector, it is said, has done such a terrible job of providing electricity that government must now step in to…
There is an old story that goes something like this. An inventor once came up with a revolutionary carburetor so effective that it enabled a typical American car to travel 100 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. The carburetor never made it to the market because “Big Oil Companies” purchased the patent on the…