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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'political symbols'
Vote Grand Oil Party! Multi-layered deception coming to a street corner near you
September 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · oil · political symbols · politics · republican party · truthiness
Taking Deception to Extremes: “Drill Now! Pay Less! Vote GOP!”
September 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Taking Deception to Extremes: “Drill Now! Pay Less! Vote GOP!”
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 […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate delayers · Energy · oil · political symbols · politics · truthiness
Sleeping with a Secessionist …
September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sleeping with a Secessionist …
My blogging beat and focus is Global Warming and Energy. And, the choice come November could not be starker in these arenas (that is, at least in fact not media framing). The contrast could not be starker … across a wide range of issues. Among these, John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin has added a […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · political symbols · politics · republican party
Bald-Faced Deception: McCain is McShameless …
September 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Will the nation reach a limit? Is there no limit to how far things will go? I will put aside, for the moment, McCain advertising lying to make Obama out to be some form of supporter of teaching unvarnished sexual education to kindergardeners (when, in fact, Obama was supporting efforts to teach young child how […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · john mccain · political symbols · politics
Emerging from cave, some Republican lawmakers find sunshine not to their liking
September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Emerging from cave, some Republican lawmakers find sunshine not to their liking
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 or so […]
Tags: Energy · oil · political symbols · politics
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: Energy · government energy policy · political symbols · politics
What to do about gas prices?
July 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on What to do about gas prices?
Americans United for Change has launched a campaign to Free Our Oil! While an interesting response to the Republican focus on lying to support drilling, I challenged this campaign, stating that this effort supports a quite dangerous framing of the problems and solutions. If we make this just about gas prices, we are caught into […]
Tags: Energy · fuel economy · gasoline · oil · peak oil · PHEV · political symbols · politics · Uncategorized
The power of 350 … spreading the word
June 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on The power of 350 … spreading the word
Prior to the industrial era, the atmosphere was at about 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Now, we are about 387 and growing at nearly 2 ppm per year. The ‘old’ (a few years ago) scientific consideration was that it seemed we could stabilize, without utterly catastrophic risk, at 450 ppm or below. This […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions · environmental · Global Warming · green · jim hansen · political symbols · politics · pollution · Uncategorized
Politics and Gas Prices
June 13th, 2008 · 10 Comments
It is ever so tempting to scream “GAS PRICES” and call for lowered gas prices if you are a candidate challenging for Congress or elsewhere. Ever so tempting to pander to (quite real) concerns about skyrocketing prices with counterproductive calls for cutting gasoline prices. These, however, fly in the face of the realities of Peak […]
Tags: conservation · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · fuel economy · political symbols · politics · pollution · transportation · Uncategorized