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 […]
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Obama Admin Plugging In School Buses
April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Congress · Energize America · Energy · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · PHEV · politics · renewable energy · transportation
Boehner Flagrantly Flaunts ASS on Broadcast TV
April 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments
In a rather astounding, inappropriate for youth moment, House Minority Leader John Boehner chose to put his ASS on display. Anti-Science Syndrome, that is. Today, on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulus pushed Boehner to speak to Global Warming and the Republican Party’s plans to deal with Climate Change in like of Democratic House leadership (Markey-Waxman […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · republican party
Paying attention to “friends”
April 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments
To many in the climate ‘blogosphere’, myself not excepted, the siren’s call of tackling global warming denial, of deceitful astroturf “studies” distorting the situation, and of shoddy ‘faux and balanced’ reporting in the nation’s newspapers of record can eat up too much of our attention. We must pay attention to what is actually going on […]
Tags: carbon dioxide · Congress · democrats · electricity · emissions · Energy · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · pollution
When your friends aren’t …
April 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on When your friends aren’t …
Taking meaningful steps to pursue sensible policies to deal with E3 challenges (economy, energy, environment) and seize E3 opportunities will take leadership and political courage. Leadership to move past simply testing the political environment via polling, wetting the finger to see which way the wind is blowing at the moment. Political courage to stand up […]
Tags: Congress · democrats · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
Bachman-Horner Overdrive of Global Warming Denial
April 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Michele Bachman, (R-MN-6), held a global warming denial promoting townhall without, par for the course for, even taking a question at the “townhall”. This session, which featured a presentation by Global Warming denier Chris Horner is most accurately described, as per the title, as the “Bachman-Horner Overdrive of Global Warming Denial”. Despite an MIT professor’s […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · politics · republican party · truthiness
WashPost corrects WashPost re Will-Ful Deceit… Will they need another correction as well?
April 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The Will Affair continues to build in new twists and turns. [A quick reminder: On February 15, George Will published a deceitful column on Global Warming. Unlike past events, this set off a chain of blogosphere critiques that led to journalism critiques of Will, responses from both the Post’s ombudsman and the editorial editor, Fred […]
Even Republicans are speaking out …
April 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Even Republicans are getting disgusted with Republican deceit. The “Republicans for Environmental Protection” issued a press release calling on Republicans to abide by more honest economic analysis and state that Republican tactics are “a disservice to Americans”. Such tactics, which are designed to score political points and gain headlines, are a disservice to American citizens, […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · political symbols · politics · republican party · truthiness
“This canard ought to be rejected …”
April 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Moving out smartly on dealing with climate change has huge benefits from creating jobs, to improving health situations, to improving national security, to so many other things that it almost doesn’t even take the implications of catastrophic climate change to drive thoughtful people to the conclusion that energy efficiency and renewable energy are the path […]
Tags: politics · republican party · truthiness
Heroes in the Global Warming Front: Or, What is it with Female Democratic Governors Anyway?
March 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In 2008, Kathleen Sebelius undertook a courageous battle against coal industry interests attempting to buy their way into perpetuating highly polluting coal-fired electricity plants. She stood up against fossil-foolish distortions. She stood up against industry lobby money. She stood up in a tough fight against Republican legislators who were active collaborators with the polluters. She […]
Tags: climate change · coal · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics · pollution · renewable energy
Rush’s Hot Air … heats the globe
March 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Many in the Republican “base” found John McCain an outrage, his policy views and perspectives abhorrent, not least of which that he deigns to consider reality in stating that Global Warming is a serious issue meriting attention (even if his policy prescriptions aren’t enough). Well, what does the Glorious Leader of the Republican Party have […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · republican party