Many are, it seems, agag about Rick Santorum due to the devout nature of his Catholicism. While JFK assured America that Rome wouldn’t rule him, Rick seems determined to put into people’s minds the reverse. One of Santorum’s notable stand out features: as serious a climate denial as one can find within a pack of […]
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Santorum … The pick and choose from Catholic values candidate?
January 6th, 2012 · Comments Off on Santorum … The pick and choose from Catholic values candidate?
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · politics · religion and global warming · republican party
Vote For Energy
January 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) opened yet another astroturf campaign — sort of, considering massing amounts of public advertising in the nation’s newspapers — advocating that Americans “Vote for Energy“. API’s concept of Voting 4 Energy is pretty straightforward: continue subsidizing polluting fossil-foolish policies that are bankrupting the nation. (Consider the roughly $1 billion […]
Citizens Against Government Waste Promotes Wasteful Citizenry
December 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Citizens Against Government Waste Promotes Wasteful Citizenry
One of the precepts from the right-wing sound machine (RWSM) is horror at government standard setting that leads to an improved marketplace. Whether seatbelts for cars or speed limits or building standards or …, there is little to no problem finding screaming voices letting us know how this is a fundamental invasion of individual rights […]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2012 Presidential Election · Congress · conservation · Energy · energy efficiency · lighting · politics
“We can’t wait …” President Obama’s $4 billion energy efficiency announcement(s)
December 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on “We can’t wait …” President Obama’s $4 billion energy efficiency announcement(s)
“We can’t wait …” President Obama’s words as to a private-partnership set of building energy-efficiency investments that will total $4 billion are, sigh, ever-so-true across a huge portfolio of issues. And, well, let us be clear that this $4 billion is only a drop in the ocean of national requirements and opportunities even solely considering […]
Darren Doth Protest Too Much?
October 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Darren Doth Protest Too Much?
On 18 October, Politco published a Darren Samuelson article entitled “Liberals unhappy with Solyndra focus“. Environmental groups are desperate to shift media attention away from Solyndra’s collapse and toward allegations of Obama administration favoritism to the Keystone XL pipeline, and they’re willing to throw the White House under the bus to do it. This article […]
Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · Abu Dhabi · climate delayers · Energy · journalism · Obama Administration · political symbols · politics
RWSM loves dirty energy more than they hate Hillary?
October 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment
For some (many?) Democratic voters and activists, one of their reasons to support Barack Obama (or John Edwards or Bill Richardson or …) in the Democratic Party primaries in 2007/2008 was a visceral fear of the RWSM (Right-Wing Sound Machine) and how it how it had built up (irrational) hatred of Hillary Clinton in a […]
Tags: Energy · environmental · political symbols · politics · pollution
Killing or Creating The Future: Solar’s three act drama on the Mall
September 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Killing or Creating The Future: Solar’s three act drama on the Mall
A drama is playing out at two ends of the National Mall … with a question mark between them. One act is receiving massive news attention while the intermission and other act rests in obscurity for most Americans. The center piece, almost like an intermission, is uncertain and perhaps cloudy about the finale. One act […]
Tags: Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · solar · solar decathlon · Solar Energy
The real energy scandal: Is the media missing the energy fraud forest for the Solyndra scandal tree?”
September 15th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This guest post is from Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog. Original article. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on the ongoing and growing scandal in the wake of the bankruptcy of Solyndra Corporation. Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after laying off over 1,000 workers, is facing […]
Tags: Energy · government energy policy · political symbols · politics · renewable energy · republican party
Creating Scandal: Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal
September 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This guest post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. Dave Johnson is a Fellow with CAF. Well here’s a surprise: conservatives and oil interests are pushing deceptive and destructive stories about President Obama and clean energy. Imagine that! Their intent (as always) is to turn people against President […]
Tags: department of energy · Energy · political symbols · politics · President Barack Obama · renewable energy · republican party · Right Wing Sound Machine (RWSM) · solar · Solar Energy
“BREAKING: Tea Party Activists arrested at White House” … Sources reporting President seeks meeting to forge compromise to end protest
August 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments
706 Tea Party members arrested in prolonged demonstrations in front of the White House … protesting that President Bachman (or Perry or …) wasn’t living up her promise to send climate scientists to prison. This sort of event would get banner headlines. A series of events, with people being arrested every day, would be banner […]
Tags: climate delayers · Energy · politics · production tax credit