Category Archives: Clean Tech

Grover Norquist, Hypocrite on Ethanol

Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Normally, I generally agree with Grover Norquist’s calls to reduce the size of America’s bloated government. However, this recent article in The Economist made me furious. Mr. Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), an organization whose raison d’etre is to reduce the size and complexity of … Continue reading →

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Americans Have More Pragmatic Views on Energy Policy Than Their Leaders Do

Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

One frustration that I have always had with both the Republican and Democratic energy policies is that neither solves America’s energy problems. On the one hand, the Democratic strategy would result in the nation’s economic collapse in twenty years or … Continue reading →

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Falling for the Lipstick and Missing the Pig: Obama’s Energy Policy

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Well, it turns out that I failed to read the fine print yesterday before I published an article praising Obama’s new energy policy. I read the President’s speech and agreed with many of the proposals he recommended, but I also … Continue reading →

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President Obama Does Something Right (Finally)

Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Today, President Obama introduced something that I believe is the beginning of a good bipartisan effort to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. While I have not yet had an opportunity to read through his entire plan, my remarks here are based on what … Continue reading →

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Let the Middle Eastern Proliferation Spiral Begin!

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“There is probably no institution in the world that should be kept as far away from a nuclear power plant as the Turkish Atomic Energy Institution.” — Nuclear regulator charged with supervising nuclear material A little less than a week … Continue reading →

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There Is Still Hope For Nuclear Power

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

After all the negative news from Japan, it is heartening to see that the venture capital community is still funding companies working on smaller, more efficient, and safer nuclear reactors (See the following article at Greentechmedia). One such company, NuScale, designs … Continue reading →

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A Surefire Sign the Right Has Ceded the Clean Energy Debate to the Left

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

I’m sorry, but this recent post from a dilettante at the Huffington Post really got my blood boiling. Unfortunately, conservatives are partially responsible for allowing this to happen. What did they allow to happen? Well, by reflexively opposing finding ways … Continue reading →

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American Involvement in Libya Is a Bad Idea

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Yesterday, the United Nations approved airstrikes on Qaddafi’s forces in Libya. The resolution apparently passed with ten votes, including the United States with abstentions from Russia, China, Germany, Brazil, and India. Now American forces may be fighting a third war … Continue reading →

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Sell to Sucker: Potassium Iodide for Sale!

Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

©2011 Reflections of a Rational Republican Welcome to Tulipomania circa 2011. In 1624, a tulip bulb became so valuable that some wealthy merchants were willing to pay a sum roughly equal to their annual income for it. And so now … Continue reading →

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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

I decided to break from tradition and to publish something a little less serious. I put together this little video using a program called xtranormal. It is satire on what many left bloggers write and think about conservatives. Huffington Post … Continue reading →

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