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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You deserve to know!
August 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on You deserve to know!
Tags: Energy · environmental · fuel economy · Global Warming · government energy policy · 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
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 […]
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 […]
Tags: democrats · Energy · oil · peak oil · politics · republican party
Energy Smart Scott
July 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · politics · Uncategorized
Solve tomorrow’s problems. Today.
July 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Mañana. Sigh. Procrastination is a disease that inflicts many of us (certainly not excluding this author) and The US. It seems that there is nary a chore, nary a challenge whose solution can’t be put off to tomorrow or, preferably, the day after. The time has passed. It is time to change our habits. We […]
Tags: Energy · environmental · Global Warming · green · oil · politics · pollution
Throw off complacency: 100% renewable electricity
July 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Throw off complacency: 100% renewable electricity
Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%! Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal. And, determine to do this within a decade. People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong. This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but possible. They […]
Tags: Al Gore · carbon dioxide · carbon neutral · Energy · environmental · government energy policy · green · politics · pollution · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy
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
Energy Smart Jeff
July 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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 […]
Tags: Congress · Energy · politics · Uncategorized