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  Or for those of us who can read energy plans:

  "Obama does looks poised to win Oregon by 10 to 15 points, and again claims he's reached some new threshold.

  Hillary Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky, with 65 percent of the vote to Obama's 30 percent, a 35 point win.

  However, neither has reached and neither can reach the threshold of 2025 - or (if on May 31 the DNC includes FL and MI - 2210) and so (as has been the case for some time), the Superdelegates will still need to decide this race to break that tie.

  The race has been virtually tied for some time, with the momentum going first to Obama and since, since PA, to Clinton.

  Obama says he's still in it though, and will take his campaign to Montana, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico -- the only places that haven't yet voted. "I'm going to keep making our victory laps in the media until the Superdelegates realize that they have to pick me" Obama told fans in his victory rally in Iowa, after winning Oregon.

  Obama had his environmental push in his remarks, delivered in Des Moines, Iowa, where his dependence on ethanol to beat climate change is a bread and butter issue.

  Clinton however vowed that she's actually the candidate "to turn the climate crisis into an energy revolution and create millions of new jobs", and that is backed up by her realistic plans to address the problem with real policy: as evidenced in this detailed side by side comparison between their two climate plans in What Should Superdelegate Al Gore Do? that shows that there is one candidate in this race that can formulate eco policy in the common good.

  John McCain already vetoes every eco bill

  On Oregon and Kentucky vote; nation yawns and rolls over posted 1 year, 5 months ago 1 Response

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  for immediate impact - pass a Feed In Tariff

  like Germany did, now they have more solar roofs than anyone in Europe.

  If people can make a little extra by selling their electricity at retail to the utility they will put up solar pamels.

  And if the electricity is a little more expensive (to fund that retail price the utilites must pay for anybodys electrons) then there is both the carrot of the extra income to be made, and the stick of the extra cost if you don't join in.

  A FIT is designed so that you earn a little more than your monthly payments on the solar panels, large or small.

  PBS interviewed a pigfarmer in Germany who was making $60,000 yr in profit on panels he put up in his fields.

  MCain = McSame: check this eco voting record (!)

  On We can't wait for new nukes, so what do we do now? posted 1 year, 6 months ago 15 Responses

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  to MattG - who says:

  " I haven't heard either of the Dems advocate for your solution."

  ...thats because you don't read here, (I see this is your first comment) there have been many stories about their carbon free energy solutions here.

  There is no one silver bullet. Nuclear power is not the solution. Obama is more pro nuke than Clinton, but neither advocates for putting all our eggs in one basket like this. Especially to once again rely on a dwindling resource to power it, as Uranium is reaching a peak in 50 years or so, just like oil. Its just bad policy.

  Both Obama and Clinton have detailed clean energy plans to get us to a low carbon (Obama) and zero carbon (Clinton) future.

  http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/
  http://www.hillaryclinton.com/files/pdf/poweringamericasf ...

  MCain = McSame: check this eco voting record (!)

  On McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants costing $4 trillion posted 1 year, 6 months ago 26 Responses

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  Clinton has the best clean energy advisors

  in the world, per Grist: at The Center For American Progress.

  A senior fellow from there - Joseph Romm even posts here. She cared enough to come to the Grist Climate Debate and showed us in a fluid and detailed eco policy discussion how she can and will get us to a carbon free future.

  Obama has slipped too many times for this to be a mistake that "we" can somehow correct him on.

  MCain = McSame: check this eco voting record (!)

  On Direct mailers from Obama campaign hail 'clean Kentucky coal' posted 1 year, 6 months ago 22 Responses

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  I just saw the first Smartfortwo

  they are just starting to ship now, on schedual. It gets 45 mpg and literally has two front seats. No back seat.On Small cars gaining popularity in U.S. amid high fuel costs posted 1 year, 6 months ago 8 Responses