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Entries from August 2008

You deserve to know!

August 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on You deserve to know!

Before entering the ballot box, you have the right. No, actually, the responsibility to know candidates’ positions on the critical issues before us and before the US. And, a new tool has emerged for doing so on critical energy and environmental issues. Candid Answers provides a path for voters (for citizens) to query quickly candidates […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · fuel economy · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics

Bike for Free: RNC and DNC opportunity

August 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bike for Free: RNC and DNC opportunity

For both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions (DNC/RNC), a bike sharing program will be made available to delegates, media and representatives. Humana is providing 1000 bikes in partnership with Bikes Belong, a biking advocacy coalition. While, sadly, the bikes will be available only from 7 am to 7 pm (perhaps to reduce drunken bike […]

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Tags: General

Note to NYT: McCain is White, Obama is not

August 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Note to NYT: McCain is White, Obama is not

The New York Times published a strong editorial, Energy Fictions, that borders on fantasy itself. Reading (and rereading it) makes one wonder whether the NYTimes editorial board simply need new glasses as they seem not to understand some basic facts. John McCain is White; Barack Obama is not. McCain is old; Obama is not. McCain […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · barack obama · Energy · government energy policy · john mccain · journalism · media · political symbols · politics · republican party · truthiness

Free Our Oil, Help Consumers, Solve Problems

August 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Free Our Oil, Help Consumers, Solve Problems

Republicans are lying to support drilling and too many in the right-wing sound machine are all too willing to act as an off-key chorus singing the praises of this Drillusion. Sadly, this outright deception is being met by confusion and, sadly, polling suggests that the Democratic Party’s seeming confusion is not convincing the public that […]

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Tags: Energy · government energy policy · political symbols · politics

Drillusion

August 6th, 2008 · 7 Comments

At times, we might forget that there are a good number of very bright, extremely dedicated, and fundamental people working in Congress. Elected officials and staff. Our funding system that seems to drive member after member to be begging, tin in cup, for funds can make the entire process look open to purchase. The traditional […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · government energy policy

Energy Smart Possum

August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choices between knowledgeable, impassioned, and thoughtful candidates when it comes to finding paths toward a prosperous 21st century economy, on the one side, and Fossil-Fool candidates focused on tightening our shackles to the ever-more […]

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Tags: Congress · Energy · politics

Offshore Drilling: We Can Choose Simple Confusion or Outright Lies

August 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments

Every day it seems gas prices are edging higher. For almost a year, oil prices have increased by one percent per week. A year ago, $100 barrel seemed a nightmare fantasy to many. Today, oil at that price is viewed almost nostalgically — as the good old days. In the face of growing price pressures […]

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Tags: democrats · Energy · oil · peak oil · politics · republican party