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Entries from September 2008

Calculating the Financial Benefits of Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs): the case of a condo building

September 30th, 2008 · 12 Comments

We have all become armored against advertising and the claims of “save $26” (or more) on a CFL package are hard to believe. In addition, in our culture, we focus on the cost to buy (CTB) rather than the cost to own (CTO). Thus, in a weird perversion of Benjamin Franklin, we focus on the […]

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Tags: analysis · CFL · electricity · Energy · energy efficiency · financial policy · incandescent lighting · lighting

Palin-McCain: Can’t get energy facts right

September 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Palin-McCain: Can’t get energy facts right

Amid the absurdities of trying to pawn Sarah “Pit Bull with Lipstick” Palin off as the nation’s top energy expert (http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/03/note-to-media-pork-queen-palin-is-earmark-expert-not-energy-expert/, here, or here) the simple reality is that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin can get their energy facts right. The latest: John McCain stated that “the world’s largest oil reserves are in the […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · oil · sarah palin

Energy Bookshelf: “Experts at denial.”

September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Energy Bookshelf: “Experts at denial.”

Grimly he watched America walk by. A precipice that we might have already passed. Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis. Permafrost bubbling methane. Experts at denial. Acidification of the oceans. Experts at filtering their informatioon to hear only what made it seem […]

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Tags: Energy · energy bookshelf · Global Warming

John “Truthiness” McCain’s evening in Mississippi

September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There are going to be millions of words already and coming out about the debate in Ole Miss. Thus, to add a few into the pile. Whether captured or not, the facts will show that John “Truthiness” McCain showed up in force this evening. We could discuss Senator McCain’s failure to fight for funding veterans’ […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · Global Warming · john mccain · political symbols · politics · renewable energy

McCain: Failing his own “test”?

September 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on McCain: Failing his own “test”?

Both Barack Obama and campaign-suspended John McCain spoke at a session of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting.  Some have already called John McCain’s comments “the height of hypocrisy.”  Reading McCain’s speech and considering John McCain’s spinning out of control flip-flopping on energy and global warming issues over the past year, it is hard to disagree […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · Clinton Climate Initiative · Energy · environmental · john mccain · oil · political symbols · politics

A 100 year letter

September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on A 100 year letter

DeSmogBlog has a magnificent project, a call for letters to one’s descendents a hundred years from now. Sharon Moore offered an apology: Most of all I want to tell you I am sorry for how short-sighted we were. I thought I was doing all that I could to leave a good world for you to […]

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Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming

Offering hope … and fighting darkness … take action

September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Offering hope … and fighting darkness … take action

This Saturday, there is a nation-wide showdown between, quite literally, forces for light and forces for darkness. (Excellent video …) This Saturday, September 27th, is a national action day for Green Jobs Now, with actions and events already planned for all 50 states (and DC and …). Green Jobs Now offers a positive vision for […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · environmental justice · green

Some Green leaders raises question on big green issue …

September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Some Green leaders raises question on big green issue …

News of the week, of course, is Secretary Paulson’s and the Bush Administration’s blackmail efforts for a rushed $700 billion bailout subsidy to Wall Street. If done poorly, this could sabotage any efforts to tackle energy and global warming issues. So far, at least two leaders of “Green” organizations have spoken out strongly on this […]

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Tags: environmental · environmental justice

Lifelong Republican Energy Guru: “McCain doesn’t have a clue.”

September 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Matt Simmons must be rated as highly energy literate. Founder/Head of Simmons & Company, he supported George W Bush for President. He is a Texas oilman and author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. Here is what Matt has to say about John McCain and energy: “John […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · john mccain

Evidence that deception, truthiness, and lies work: polling on energy

September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Evidence that deception, truthiness, and lies work: polling on energy

One poll doesn’t say everything. One question in one poll doesn’t provide “truth” (“ground truth”). But, at times, one question, one poll can provide a shock value. According to Diageo / The Hotline, McCain is judged better than Obama for “managing America’s energy policies”. In a poll which places “the economy” as the top issue, […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy