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After the fold is a listing of the 10 nations with the most expensive gasoline prices and the ten nations with the cheapest gasoline. And, a simple question, with a thought: Which list would you want to live in? And, what does that suggest?

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Peak Oil. Gas Prices. Global Warming.
There are real problems and real threats with terrifying implications that merit response.  
Yet, threat and crisis creates opportunity.
We have, before us (and the US), an opportunity for transformation.
For responding to threat and handling crisis to create something better, to turn to a better path.
And, well, the question becomes how [...]

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Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choices between knowledgeable, impassioned, and thoughtful candidates when it comes to finding paths toward a prosperous 21st century economy, on the one side, and Fossil-Fool candidates focused on tightening our shackles to the ever-more [...]

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Sometimes those of who focus on energy and global warming issues seem to screaming into the wind, with little attention from others in the community. Netroots Nation’s announcement for the 2009 put those emotions to the side. The Netroots Nation staff worked hard to find a site and location that meets the types of [...]

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Mañana.
Sigh.
Procrastination is a disease that inflicts many of us (certainly not excluding this author) and The US.
It seems that there is nary a chore, nary a challenge whose solution can’t be put off to tomorrow or, preferably, the day after.
The time has passed. It is time to change our habits. We must start doing our [...]

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Mitch McConnell (R-Tenn) has used his power as Minority Leader (and, previously Majority Leader) to use deceit and parliamentary rules to defeat any moves for sensible energy policy. Truth seems irrelevant to Energy Dumber Mitch.
These lies and pursuit of horrific energy policies create high expectations for his Democratic Party opponent Bruce Lunsford. [...]

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Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%!
Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal.
And, determine to do this within a decade.
People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong.  This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but absolutely possible.  They are wrong.

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Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%! Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal. And, determine to do this within a decade.
People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong.  This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but possible.
They will, as [...]

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Americans United for Change has launched a campaign to Free Our Oil! While an interesting response to the Republican focus on lying to support drilling, I challenged this campaign, stating that this effort supports a quite dangerous framing of the problems and solutions.
If we make this just about gas prices, we are caught into a [...]

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Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choices between knowledgeable, impassioned, and thoughtful candidates when it comes to finding paths toward a prosperous 21st century economy, on the one side, and Fossil-Fool candidates focused on tightening our shackles to the ever-more [...]

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