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The global economy’s life-blood (even if it has been on life support) truly doesn’t flow through the CAC 40 or Wall Street, but is pumped from the ground and into our chemical plants, manufacturing processes, and transportation. We should, as a global society, be working to “keep the grease in the ground” for a variety [...]

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) today released proposed rules for implementating the increase in CAFE standards, beyond the Congressional mandate, as announced this past May. In short, this deal between the Obama Administration and the auto industry accelerates the improvement in light vehicle fuel efficiency across the fleet average (the [...]

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Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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When elected into Dennis Hastert’s old seat, Bill Foster raised real hopes that Illinois-14 would have a substantive and positive voice in the nation’s energy discussion. Foster once self-described himself as a “Scientist, Businessman, Democrat” but no longer, he is a “Scientist, Businessman, Independent Solutions”. The self-description isn’t the real problem, it is [...]

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Paul Krugman, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics, penned an article a few months ago: “Know-Nothing Politics“.
the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid.
For [...]

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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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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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In my neck of the woods, the local Republicans are showing a real green thumb (actually, perhaps green hammer) as there is green sprouting all over. Green signs with a gas pump are appearing with the words “Drill Now! Pay Less! Vote GOP!”
Now, other than the direct linkage of a gas pump and the Republican [...]

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In my neck of the woods, someone is showing a real green thumb (actually, perhaps green hammer) as there is green sprouting all over. Green signs with a gas pump are appearing with the words “Drill Now! Pay Less! Vote GOP!” Now, other than the direct linkage of a gas pump and the Republican Party [...]

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After a month of occupation of a darkened House Chamber, Republican Representatives held a press conference to claim that American stands squarely behind them in their false prophesy of DRILL! DRILL! DRILL! as some form of solution to America’s greatest challenges. Their gleeful truthiness and deception did not, however, go unchallenged. Some 100 [...]

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