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There needs to be a contest about the lamest Congressional Lame Duck action. Today, Harry Reid seeks a vote on a strong candidate for the prize: S3815. From today’s Senate calendar At 11:00am, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.3815, “The Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010”, […]

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The U.S. Senate looks on track to take one measure in the post-election, lame-duck Congressional session to address the most serious challenges of our oil addiction and our heavy carbon footprint. This will be, as I understand it, an effort to fast track a piece of legislation introduced by Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid: S. […]

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Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress issued American Fuel: Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles. This misleading and error-prone report strongly supports misguided policy concepts to subsidize heavily transitioning American transportation from one fossil fuel (oil) to a slightly lower polluting alternative (natural gas). Even though political momentum exists behind this concept, it […]

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T Boone Pickens continues his relentless, high-cost media and publicity effort to promote The Pickens’ Plan to seemingly raving audiences, selling a superficially appealing but fundamentally unsound concept. In short, T Boone is calling for generating more electricity from wind, using that to displace natural gas from the electricity system, and then using that natural […]

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T Boone Pickens continues his hard sell efforts when it comes to the flawed Pickens’ Plan. Yesterday, a bipartisan group of bloggers had a teleconference with T Boone. (Notably, this is just when a rush of advertisements are appearing across the blogosphere from T Boone.) If one listens through ‘the call’, several points might jump […]

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A cowboy has ridden out, gathering a posse, to slay the demon of imported oil.  Texas Oilman T Boone Pickens is investing over $50 million in promoting The Pickens’ Plan with advertising, a tremendous website, public affairs, and public presentation after presentation. This includes speaking tomorrow at The Big Tent.  There are serious issues surrounding Pickens’ politics that foster […]

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