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CARS Program is actually a C.R.A.P. Program

June 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Amid the supplemental appropriations bill (warning, 144 page pdf), currently awaiting vote after a Conference Committee, is the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program (pages 52-58). Naming bills in deceptive and often cutesy terms has truly become an art form. The CARS Program merits being in the same zone as the ever-so appealing […]

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Tags: analysis · automobiles · Congress · Energy

Glenn “Kumbaya” Beck?

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Anti-Science Syndrome (ASS) sufferer Hater of Liberal Economics (HOLE) Glenn Beck evidently envisions himself as the rightful successor of one of the greatest names in political theory and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States with his publication of Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government inspired by Thomas Paine. […]

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Tags: Energy

Why do so many in Congress hate American manufacturing?

June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Why do so many in Congress hate American manufacturing?

Truly, this is one of the questions that should be on the table when considering Congressional (in)action re climate change and clean energy options.  Over the past decade, as US jobs flew out to other countries, with workers all too often spending their last months/weeks/days on the job training foreigners how to use equipment and […]

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Tags: Congress · government energy policy · politics · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy