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The Solar Photovoltaic Price Evolution Revolution

January 29th, 2014 · 1 Comment

This guest post comes from BruceMcF. In early December, the Guardian covered ALEC’s latest corporate-written attack on freedom, an effort to penalize households that place solar panels on their roof: An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as “freeriders” – in a […]

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Tags: Energy · Solar Energy

Steel Interstates, Fast Freight, and Brawny Recovery

July 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF laying out how a Steel Interstate program provides one of the most sensible national policy paths forward to address our intertwined economic, energy, and environmental challenges … and opportunities. (Right: Liberty Line) The Steel Interstate proposal is an effort to build Rapid Electric Freight Rail Tollways across the […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · rail

Why We Fight (rail edition)

May 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Why We Fight (rail edition)

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Tags: Energy · oil · rail

Conventional Rail and the Steel Interstates ~ Best Friends Forever

April 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Conventional Rail and the Steel Interstates ~ Best Friends Forever

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. I’ve written several times about the direct potential of the Steel Interstate project to cut our oil imports by 10% by getting long haul freight trucking off the road. It would at the same time relieve the crushing burden imposed by long haul trucking on our over-worked, […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · rail · trains · transportation

Oil Addiction is a Political Choice, not a Necessity

April 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Oil Addiction is a Political Choice, not a Necessity

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. We can tell that an energy policy is not aimed at ending our nation’s oil addiction in time when the speech presenting it follows up: The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · Obama Administration · oil · rail

NYT takes Koch Bros. dictation on Florida High Speed Rail

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on NYT takes Koch Bros. dictation on Florida High Speed Rail

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence Suppose that you wanted to inject a framing into a purely political strategy which also happened to involve sabotaging the future of the nation’s economy? “We sabotaged the future economy.” Hmmm, that would be a bad talking point there. […]

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Tags: Energy · journalism · trains · transportation

Making a ‘national HSR plan’ into a National Network+*

February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Making a ‘national HSR plan’ into a National Network+*

Yet another valuable guest post from BruceMcF, whose thoughts re rails valuable role in fostering a robust, prosperous, climate-friendly future for America merit attention. Way back before the Super Bowl, the White House had a series of exciting announcements, covered at The Transport Politic under the heading The White House Stakes Its Political Capital on […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · rail

Going on the Attack for Amtrak

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Going on the Attack for Amtrak

BruceMcF is a thinker re rail transportation who merits heeding … in this guest post, he looks at Amtrak’s value as it faces the budgetary axe threat from the Republican Study Committee. The Republicans have won one of the established political Power Positions in American Politics, and so they propose to eliminate funding for Amtrak: […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · rail · republican party · trains · transportation

HSR Plan A and Plan B Thinking

September 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence This last week, I have been staring at The Transport Politic post, Republican Wave Could Spell Trouble for High-Speed Rail Projects […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · rail · transportation

Trains to Sustain Our Suburbs?

September 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Trains to Sustain Our Suburbs?

Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence As Dean Baker reported on the (bookmark worthy) Real World Economics Review Blog, new home sales figures for July are out, […]

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Tags: Energy · guest post · trains · transportation