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Romney-Ryan Seek to Raise Americans’ Energy Prices: (a) Electricity

September 27th, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Romney-Ryan energy plan has been appropriately castigated for embracing and enshrining fossil fuels while disdaining and dismissing renewable energy systems (and, well, totally ignoring energy efficiency).  (One could say that the Romney-Ryan campaign is rejecting energy from heaven and embracing (with passion) energy from hell.) With mindless ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ cheering, enraptured sonnets for Keystone […]

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Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · coal · electricity · Energy

Military seeks to end “The Burden” and create opportunities

September 27th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (ret’d) opens The Burden‘s trailer with these words: Oil, natural gas, coal have been very good for the United States … Key to his words: “have been”. Rich natural resources have been key to America’s emergence, over the centuries, into a global powerhouse. Combined with (regulated) capitalism enabling best practices […]

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Office Waste is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted list

September 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on Office Waste is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted list

Talk about a catchy conference title: Recycling lands on FBI’s most-wanted list While it might not go as far as Don’t Mess With Texas, this does allow one one to imagine a crumpled aluminum can on a Post Office poster alongside a mass murderer. This was the title for the first presentation in the GreenGov […]

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