From TPM Muckraker:
Republicans won’t be changing their story on the cost of climate change legislation anytime soon. I just spoke with Michael Steel, spokesman for John Boehner, about the letter the House Minority Leader received from M.I.T. scientist John Reilly. By way of background, Reilly wrote to Boehner yesterday and gently informed him that he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
7 Apr
Republicans Distort MIT Study on Cap and Trade
26 Feb
Highlights from Obama’s Speech
Here’s the full transcript. I’ve picked out my favorite things that he said. There were a lot of stuff I thought were great, naturally.
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The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline overnight. Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank.
We have known for decades [...]
2 Oct
Why Go Green?
Well, for one thing, it’ll help our economy. That’s right, part of our economic crisis (namely the high unemployment rate) can be solved by investment in green jobs and green energy! Hooray! The UN even agrees!
So, why is Congress letting the ban on offshore drilling expire? It’s happening this week and apparently they’re just going [...]
15 Sep
Top Ten Reasons Offshore Drilling is a Bad Idea
Oh Greenpeace, how do I love thee? They’ve come out with a list of the top ten reasons to oppose offshore drilling and I just have to share it with you. Here’s the link and here’s the list:
10. Offshore oil drilling won’t impact gas prices today, and it won’t have a significant impact on gas [...]
10 Sep
No Clean Coal
One of the reasons I can’t watch shows like CNN is because of some of the commercials on there. In particular, I can’t stand the one promoting “clean coal.” The term itself really pisses me off, simply because it’s a blatant use of rhetoric to frame an issue in a way that is patently false.
Why [...]
24 Jul
A Bold Move
On July 18th, 2008, Al Gore took a bold step forward…and a much needed one.
In a speech in Washington, DC he laid out what many of us have already seen happening and have already realized: the situation in this country is rapidly spinning out of control. While politicians are saying that the recession is all [...]
16 Jul
What I Would Do to Change the World
This was originally sent to my godparents in response to one of their emails in which they asked for thoughts on how we would like to see the world change. I liked it so much that I decided to put it on here.
“Well, for one thing I think that greed hasn’t gotten us anywhere and [...]
11 Jul
The Ethanol Debate
Ethanol is a promising new energy source, derived from corn and almost devoid of emissions when used in vehicles. It’s easy to modify cars to use this energy source and already available in some pumps and in some vehicles.
However, there are issues that arise when we consider something like ethanol that’s causing a debate throughout [...]
