Comments dotcommodity has made
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, 6 months ago 1 Responsefor 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 Responsesto 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 ResponsesClinton 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 ResponsesI 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, 7 months ago 8 Responses
Do you have a link that supports this endorsement?
you do not include one in the story.
Surely any non profit cannot endorse pres candidates or they lose their nonprofit status, in any case.On Friends of the Earth Action endorses Obama; candidates spar over "gas tax holiday" posted 1 year, 7 months ago 10 Responses
Clinton came to the Climate Debate
unlike Obama and Republicans...She has been this ecovoters choice: from her clean energy plan that adopts all the Al Gore, EU policy that works...but now this.
Very bad move, throwing us ecovoters under the bus. The one thing that differentiates her from Obama has been her far superior eco policy credentials.
Compare their two clean energy plans:
She plans to make the wind Production Tax Credit permanent, while Obama just extends it 5 years, like we Dems always do, then we act surprised that the Republicans get in and squash it again, destroying wind power for another four years...
She plans to make every Federal building carbon neutral (put solar on it) in 2009, Obama says only by 2030...
Her plan is from The Center for American progress, his comes from some Bipartisan (reassuring name...not!) policycenter that looks like it's hastily put together by a bunch of ethanol lobbyists, Daschle and Dole, and a nuke CEO (Exelon)and is just continuing Bush dependence on ethanol, nukes and clean coal.
Very bad move: pandering.
MCain = McSame: check this eco voting record (!)
On A gas tax holiday would be cynical and indefensible posted 1 year, 7 months ago 19 ResponsesDo you live there now?
I grew up there and even then there was a lot of hydro. And my understanding is that they have ((link:70% renewable)) now with geothermal and hydro power, and hope to go to 90% by 2025.
We are lucky to get 7% so 70% is quite an achievementOn 15 Green Politicians posted 1 year, 8 months ago 34 Responses
The key is how well they each withstand
the effects of lobbying money.
Both Obama and Clinton have pretty good voting records that show they are not pushovers.
McCain maintains the "maverick" (for a Republican) image on global warming, but shoots down every bill on the environment by simply not turning up to vote.
See examples in this link:
MCain = McSame: check this eco voting record (!)
On The latest primary dispute: Does Obama take oil money? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 14 Responsesplus these US companies may succeed too:
Non major auto firms in the US making freeway speed electric vehicles for 2010:
1. Spyder
http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=9132. Miles
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/12/19/new-york-mayor-bl ...4. Phoenix
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/phoenix-motorcars-intr ...On Venture-capital star ain't no clean-tech expert posted 1 year, 11 months ago 54 ResponsesPure electrics will be under $30,000 by 2010
These major companies plan freeway speed electric vehicles under $30,000 by 2010
1. Subaru: RiE
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/12/26/subaru-ev-could-a ...2. Mitsubishi: iMiEV
prizewinning, Japanese government-supported r&d like built the Prius
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/11/14/mitsubishis-all-e ...3. Smith Electric Vehicles
huge delivery vans, (over $30,000: but same price as equivalent in gas) has grown seven-fold this year: making EVs in Europe since the 20's, coming here:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/12/05/smith-ev-announce ...4. GM: Chevy Volt (not pure electric because it has a range extender: a tiny ICE just to recharge its battery) 40 mile range all electric between charges, +400 mile range with recharger
http://www.gm-volt.com/and Tesla plans to make the cheaper electric WhiteStar sedans once they jumpstart the assemblyline using the luxury Roadster, which is a respectable way to start a business.On Venture-capital star ain't no clean-tech expert posted 1 year, 11 months ago 54 Responses
Read the bill, and call Republican Senators
There is still plenty of good legislation in the Energy Bill, even though our side had to give up on saving the RPS for now.
Read it for yourself, don't let others concerntroll it off your to-do list.
We only need one more Republican Senator. It takes only a minute to tell them what to do.Whats in HR6:
http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2007/12/12/reid-announce ...Who to call:
2007 Energy Bill: We Need ONE VOTE by Tomorrow
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/12/13130/878On Energy bill to be voted on in Senate tomorrow posted 1 year, 11 months ago 12 Responsesbetter, wait till 2010 and buy GMs Volt
with the 40 mile range between charges (for 80% of commutes) with a tiny gas ICE to charge the battery for crosscountry jaunts. Plus if all of us teehuggers bought green cars Detroit would be reborn as a sustainable industry.On High gas prices make hybrids look even better posted 1 year, 11 months ago 45 Responses
Instead of just griping, call
We could get enough Senate Republicans to over ride a Bush veto if enough of us CALLED THEM. As chapter1 at dailykos says:
Energy Bill 2007: Crashing the Senate Gates
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/7/82626/3791/151/41 ..."This Bill is a start. The 2009 Energy Bill will be better...if we convince Senators that how they vote on this Bill will affect their careers.
Who to call.
Obviously, we want to work as hard as possible on the weakest link in the chain of fossil-fuel supporters. Who is that? I'm not an expert on this, beyond saying obviously GOP Sens, preferably those up for re-election. One AltEn lobbying organization is focusing efforts onBob Corker (R-TN) 202 224-3344
John Ensign (R-NV) 202 224-6244
Judd Gregg (R-NH) 202 224-3324
Mel Martinez (R-FL) 202 224-3041
John Sununu (R-NH) 202 224-2841
Norm Coleman (R-MN) 202 224-5641
Susan Collins (R-ME) 202 224-2523
Gordon Smith (R-OR) 202 224-3753If any of these represent you, call them. Heck, if any non-hopeless Republican represents you, check the list of Senate phone numbers and call. On House passes landmark energy bill; Senate up next posted 1 year, 12 months ago 6 Responses
This is not boring at all!
It is horrifying.
20 years ago even Republicans thought global warming (they called it greenhouse gas) was a real problem: even as recent as daddy Bush who promised to solve the "...greenhouse effect: they haven't heard about the White House effect!"
But after $16 million was spent by ExXON to swing key opinionmakers for Republicans like CATO, The Brookings Institution, The American Enterprise Institute and so on, EXXON and The American Fuels Association developed a partisan divide on the science to the point that Republicans now believe its just Hollywood figures like Al Gore who is conning them.
Don't believe me? Check the change in " % believe its a problem:" history at polling report.com.
You can see the dumbing down of Republicans from the early 80's to now.Even in the last year Congressional Republicans (more directly funded by oil companies than thinktanks)
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=E01
have lost their previous knowledge.
Last year 23% of Congressional Republicans believed in global warming. This year its down to 13%.http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/05/warming-13-percent/On A new study gathers 20 years of public opinion about global warming posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 Responses
Dingell's plan to end McMansion Mortgage deduction
Rep. Dingell suggests we end the McMansion deduction (3000 Sq Ft and bigger) and is not likely to win support.
To make it more fair: (many people built these before they knew of AGW, and planned the investment to provide their retirement or kids college funds)-
Why not put in a forgiveness loophole if the offending homeowner were to invest in green energy that covers all their ongoing household energy use.
It could be solar roofing, thermal heat exchange for cooling and heating or even shares in a neighbourhood wind turbine (for those gated communities of McMansions) and a low interest green loan to cover the upfront payment for installing permanent energy should be federally guaranteed.
This would address the fairness issue while solving the AGW problem.On Readers write in about presidential candidates, green lists, and Grist's "suck-it" chauvinism posted 2 years, 3 months ago 4 Responses
love that reframing JMG
and some other names bandied about on dailykos, i/o gas "tax":- plunder fee, climate safety fee, oil-war taxOn Don't call it a subsidy posted 2 years, 5 months ago 19 Responses
Thanks for stopping by
..and consider diarying at dailykos for more input.
Having listened since the new congress took over to about 40 hearings on climate and energy and environment, I really want to thank all of you for pushing so hard against the remnants of the DoNothing congress to change the status quo, and I am impressed with how much effort and persistence you all put into crafting really good climate legislation.
The Senate Energy bill also defeated two nasty coal to liquids amendments, and hope you in the House can keep them out of the final Energy bill.
Please raise the Hybrids Not Hummers subsidy (HR 1331)from $3000 to $7,500 (like the Senate version) for PLUG-IN HYBRIDS when you co ordinate with the Senate Energy bill.
Everyone, call your Rep. to get this bill passed: it means getting 100 MPG by 2015!
It is an excellent way to incentivise the autocompanies to get going on this, same as the Japanese government started hybrids by subsidising early adopters.Our SolveSomething Congress - 100+ MPG
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/24/143611/302
On The chair of the Select Committee on Global Warming weighs in posted 2 years, 5 months ago 40 ResponsesHeres the SUV van for your staff, Senator Kerry
You were complaining in a hearing that we can't buy a zero emissions SUV van like you need for your staff:
Import these Doblo EV vans from Italy:
http://www.micro-vett.it/italiano/doblo.htmlChange the laws that make it illegal for us to import all the clean EVs like these that we need in this country.
I wrote to this company and they meet European crash test rules. How about rewriting the rules just for for EVs so we could import both these Doblos and also the Smart EVs now selling in Switzerland through Infovel:
http://www.infovel.ch/eng/veicoli_lista.asp?prop=ok&p ...On More intransigence on climate change posted 2 years, 5 months ago 38 Responses
do you have links?
I seriously doubt automakers give mostly to Kerry. And doubt there was CAFE legislation in the do nothing congress.On More intransigence on climate change posted 2 years, 5 months ago 38 Responses
Kerry thank you for co sponsoring the FREEDOM ACT
I know many are fed up with the feeble CAFE, but I know you Democrats have no real majority in the Senate, so I do not blame you for not being able to over ride the Republicans who do NOT GET global warming..
Thats why this bill is so clever and sneaky! It will get us to higher MPG, without waking up the autocompanies as to what we are doing!
If you want to see a list of all the EVs we could get with this subsidy, see my diary here:
EVs to Get $6000 Subsidy (update: If You Lobby For It!)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/212018/267
On More intransigence on climate change posted 2 years, 5 months ago 38 ResponsesYour 100 MPG plugin hybrids bill in Energy Bill?
Is the FREEDOM ACT - that provides incentives for converting hybrids to plugin hybrids to get 100 mpg, and incentives for EVs - in the Energy Bill that gets voted on Tuesday? This is a great bill!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=DataPipes.Vi ...
There is a similar bill in the House HR1331, but the Senate one you endorse is stronger. Please make the final one as strong as the Senate bill. It costs $12000 for us to do conversions, ie here
http://www.hymotion.com/products.htmyou make that what - $3500? - much more affordable, as gas would cost at least that much in a year! This gets us free of gas!
House cosponsor list of HR1331 incentives for plug-in hybrids,
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR01331:@@@P ...everyone, if your rep is not cosponsoring HR1331 contact them!
And get your Senator to cosponsor this 100 mpg hybrids act too!www.congress.org
(202)224 3121On More intransigence on climate change posted 2 years, 5 months ago 38 ResponsesFear works. And its the only appropriate response.
We stopped nuclear power plants with fear. Seeing On The Beach shaped my thinking as a child. Reading Collapse a few years ago woke me up.
We need to lay out in a more emotionally accessible way what's going to happen, so people can understand it is way worse than "pollution" - our species may very well not survive this.
Movies need to be made.On Reality checking the polls posted 2 years, 6 months ago 43 Responses
Change rules that are easy
And an easy rule to change (because it does not require action by the auto companies) is simply:
Allow us American consumers to import the efficient cars they have in Europe that get 55 mpg and more.
Thats illegal, by law, now. Just tear down that wall!On New energy rules could unleash an economic boom and help quash climate change posted 2 years, 6 months ago 18 Responses
Want the car without the carbon, Jon?
I have good news for you! See this list of EVs coming by 2009 here:
Breaking !!! R's Get Clue On CO2:Fund EVs
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/2/14273/83427
On Continuing the debate posted 2 years, 6 months ago 78 ResponsesI like numbers
New Zealand gets 2/3 of its energy from renewables.
On Continuing the debate posted 2 years, 6 months ago 78 ResponsesObama is a mixed bag
he also cosponsored the $6000 subsidy for electric vehicle purchases (and no,it is not about coal: we already have enough unemployed electrons running around at night looking for work to supply the entire nation driving EVs)
Plus, the grid is getting cleaner with more green energy every year.
He also cosponsored the MCain/Clintobn climate change bill that is not as good as the bOxer bill, but its not bad.On That's what his support for CTL shows posted 2 years, 6 months ago 74 Responses
Willing to Look Like A Silly Treehugger?
Or drive one of these singlewidth zero emission vehicles that can share a lane - at 75 mph!
If you dare!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/7/212015/2640On It's like riding a bike ... posted 2 years, 6 months ago 8 ResponsesDoes anyone know if CA's 2010 mandate is still on?
Some car companies like Mitsubishi are still going ahead with zero emissions cars like the iMIEV -
so they will take another slice out of the US market with a $15,000 alll electric car before GM tries again -
but it made me wonder, does the supreme court CO2 ruling now mean that CARB can once again enforce the "30% of autos must have zero emissions by 2010" rule?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/mitsubishi-delive ...On Legally speaking posted 2 years, 7 months ago 3 Responses
He had lotsa great ideas
I most loved his
1. Tax pollution and not payroll.
2, Not either tax or cap n trade, but BOTH
3. The "electranet" - distributed energy, solar farmers can sell their rooftop harvests of pv electrons
On For today anyway! posted 2 years, 8 months ago 6 ResponsesToo funny!
Someone tell Limbaugh now he can quit it!
And tell Senator "global warming is a hoax" Inohofe he can fire his pet attack weasel!
This oiligarchy is just falling apart!On Yeah, you heard me posted 2 years, 8 months ago 12 Responses
Don't call them Denialists"
They are "The Pro-Extinction Movement"On It ain't pretty posted 2 years, 8 months ago 17 Responses
See Australia now for our future
Once drought takes hold we'll have to shut down coalfired electricity plants anyway because we'll need the water more for our survival.
Look at Australia now for our future
http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,21189976-50053 ...On This one in North Carolina posted 2 years, 9 months ago 21 ResponsesMea culpa
SNV, we are all sinners. But we adjust gradually. And our past decisions should not stop us from wanting to have a future.
Better that from now, big energy business be a tidal power or windpower company cleanly supplying electricity to a world that actually survives.
So I welcome the CEOs who see the light. And as a CEO, don't actually find it that surprising that some do.
I see the battle as between those energy companies that made a living by digging stuff out of the ground, and all the other companies that use brains to make a living.On With big biz jumping on the green bandwagon, should activists cheer or jeer? posted 2 years, 9 months ago 13 Responses
A Marshall Plan
Build NO NEW coalfired plants worldwide: complete moratorium. Replace daytime electricity needs with solar installations. (Leave the current coalfired electricity in place to cover night time need only)
Saturate the south and our coal and oil states with a kind of Marshall Plan of wind turbine royalties offered to every farmer and enough solar power so the dirty fuel income is replaced, knocking out economicly based resistance.
Provide a similar incentive to car manufacturers to produce 100 mpg hybrids, coupled with a full ban on producing any vehicle getting under 20 mpg. We phased out CFC use. We can simply phase out gas guzzzlers.
We all use electricity. We all need cars to get to work. We must all take equal responsibility for switching our economy to clean fuels.
Frame this as similar to how we geared up in 3 years for WWII from having no airforce to having what we needed to win that war.
On A new path forward for climate change campaigners posted 2 years, 9 months ago 11 ResponsesListen to the rightwing talkmedia
I remember the 60's in New Zealand, and the obsesive attention of rightwing radio to "Womens Lib" - the incessant putdowns, mockery, hysteria.
You never hear that sort of stuff now. Even the right wing fields female attackdogs like Coulter, female politicians for Senate seats.
But those days were the last throes of the old guard. Within a year, 1968, job openings were no longer restricted by sex. It was over for their side.
Likewise, now:
To determine the reaction, don't listen to us grist readers in the choir, NYT readers, dailykos diaryists etc, listen to rightwing talkradio.That same obsessive attention of the rightwing talkmedia is now lazer-focused on the same kind of mockery and hysterical denial that preceded that sea change in the 60's except now its all about mocking AGW.
Mark my words, they are finished.
On It just ain't sexy posted 2 years, 9 months ago 16 ResponsesDisinformation on IPPC coming Feb 5
Highly recommended reading: This very usefull site has a ton of very specific well researched details on the climate deniers being paid to misunderinform us on catastrophic climate change.
"Fraser Institute "Analysis" of IPCC Report Out of Date, Oil-Soaked and Incorrect
An Canadian think tank's "independent" analysis of the upcoming IPCC report is based on out-of-date information and is specifically misleading about the nature of the scientific summary that it presumes to criticize." On It's a frenzy posted 2 years, 10 months ago 9 Responses
Exxon funded Fraser Institute spins IPPC report
Heres every organisation Exxon funded to disinform us.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.phpHeres the Fraser institute
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/environment/index.asp?snav=...Heres The IPPC spin from them:
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?snav=ev...On The report may pass over some of the worst dangers posted 2 years, 10 months ago 6 ResponsesSwiftboater has Bigger fish To fry!
I too have been extremely troubled by this TAXPAYER FUNDED! indeed, propogandising right from the Senator's office, and diaried about what we can do about it at dailykos:
Returning Fire in The War On Science
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/25/103457/239...
not to pimp so much as to increase the visibility googlewise, as this issue definitely needs more sunlight.On Run out of a Senate committee, no less posted 2 years, 10 months ago 5 Responses