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LA Times confused Editorial on Candidate’s energy positions

October 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on LA Times confused Editorial on Candidate’s energy positions

In a confused editorial on energy policy, the Los Angeles Times incorrectly creates much equivalency between the two presidential candidates when it comes to energy and global warming policy. While not complimentary to either, this editorial clearly points to how the McCain campaign’s effortst to McBlur the differences in these arenas continues to work, despite […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy

Kaine-Allen represent Obama-McCain at energy forum

October 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Kaine-Allen represent Obama-McCain at energy forum

This morning, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine (D) and former governor/former senator George Allen (R) acted as surrogates for the Obama and McCain campaigns in an energy forum. From a live-blogging account, it seems clear that the two did a reasonable job as surrogates.: Obama’s policies came out as sensible (even if not aggressive enough) and […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · coal · Energy · energy efficiency · government energy policy · politics

Feeling some heat …

October 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feeling some heat …

Last evening, PBS and Frontine had a “sneak preview” of the documentary HEAT in Washington DC. This looks to be a worthwhile show to watch. Associated with the preveiw was a discussion of climate change with representatives (or surrogates) from the two campaigns and other energy and climate experts. Reportedly (I was unable to attend), […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy

The ABC’s of Blocking the Future

October 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The various fossil fuel industries have been spending hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars to influence the national discussion this year, from campaign contributions to Santa Claus giving out ‘clean coal’ at the Metro exits closest to Congressional offices to sponsoring presidential debates throughout the election cycle. This fossil foolish promotion of a […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · advertising · climate change · coal · Congress · Energy · environmental · exxon-mobil · Global Warming

McCain DisDain for being truthful: energy / global warming

October 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on McCain DisDain for being truthful: energy / global warming

This evening’s ‘town hall’ debate actually merits a kudo, amid its problems: there were actually serious questions about energy and global warming, including a direction mention of green jobs. In the debate, Barack Obama consistently reiterated that energy is a top-tier issue, linking it to financial, environmental, and international security challenges. Obama spoke of energy […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · analysis · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency

8000 words says it all …

October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what is the value of these eight images when pieced together?

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy

Angry Words in VA, including on Energy

October 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A Virginia Republican leader and member of the McCain Virginia leadership team recently wrote an ugly OPED seeking to link every shallow form of ignorant bias in the direction of hating Barack Obama and, well, black Americans. Bobby May, treasurer of Buchanan County Republicans, wrote that he is listing for your consideration the platform of […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy

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

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