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  • Strangely enough, I talked $700 billion in July

    Take a look at my comments (as CNBC Sucks) on this thread: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/07/nozzle-rag ...

    This was way, way before anyone ever imagined Henry Paulson asking Congress for $700 billion to bail out Wall Street.  My math on the thread was intentionally rough, and I will also purposely not be specific here about where I would invest $700 billion, but you can see I would not waste it on oil exploration, nuclear, or even burning precious natural gas to power SUVs.

    If you can tolerate the strong sexism of my own blog, it is http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.comOn What would you do with $700 billion? posted 1 year, 1 month ago 12 Responses

  • I hate this too

    Obama's answer that he would target energy as a way to cut spending after promising to invest $150 billion over 10 years was a major downer for me.  I am still for Obama, obviously if you check my Web site, but objectively, that would dampen my enthusiasm for his Presidency.  I think we progressives will find ourselves in the strange position of siding with conservative Republican Congressmen on the small hope that this $700+ bailout does not pass.  The bailout as proposed by Paulson could cripple Obama's Presidency and our long-awaited dreams of clean energy and energy independence.

    If you want clean energy, I think we have to risk the small chance of credit spread spikes in the short term.  Call your Congressmen and tell them NO on the Wall Street bailout.

    http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.comOn Debate: Very Serious spending cuts posted 1 year, 2 months ago 3 Responses

  • Rick Perry isn't running for President

    Sam, I am well aware of Texas' proactive attitudes toward renewable energy.  Strangely, or perhaps not strangely, people in Texas who are energy savvy due to its oil history are also some of the biggest champions of renewable energy.  I think Texans are better aware of dry holes and other limitations of the earth's resources than the average Republican.  The most obvious example, as a result of his own ad spending, is T. Boone Pickens (pardon if you consider him an Oklahoman).  Somehow, a post of mine with the title "T. Boone Pickens endorses Barack Obama, implicitly" was featured on Pickens' personal Web site.  In reply, I suggested to Pickens - who has said publicly that he must vote "Republican" due to party loyalty - that he consider voting for Rick Perry.

    In any case, you have a realistic choice between Barack Obama and John McCain.  I have been accused of "appealing to authority" in other blogs, but I need to maintain that or compromise my anonymity.  Unfortunately for me, anyone reading this will have to research his or her own facts and apply deductive thinking to recognize that clean renewable energy is categorically a non-priority for John McCain and the Republican Party and will be so for the foreseeable future.On Media finally tells public about the real roadblock to good energy policy posted 1 year, 3 months ago 8 Responses

  • Republicans don't want renewable energy, period

    Let's give this clarity once and for all:  The Republicans don't want renewable energy, period.  It smacks of European socialism and Jimmy Carter to them.  It just seems patently un-American to not make people pay for fuel for their energy.  I know because I was a lifelong Republican and I switched political parties solely, specifically on the issue of clean, renewable energy.  And I didn't switch because of green liberal environmentalist reasons (although I am very excited to receive my Environmentalists for Obama t-shirt after waiting more than a month).  I switched because the Republicans' inextricable (by $$$) alliance with Big Oil, King Coal, and Big Nuclear will never allow that party to ever be objective again on energy security at a time when this issue is paramount for this country.  And worse, any environmentalist who has followed John McCain closely knows his whole so-called maverick spiel on climate change was just a way for him to prop up nukes.  McCain's whole career is based on obfuscation.  John McCain didn't fool me as a Republican and he certainly isn't fooling me now as a Democrat.  McCain didn't even start talking up wind power in his campaign until Al Gore made his speech about 100% of US electricity from clean renewable energy.  Don't let the token windmills in McCain's ad fool you.  There is a limited resource pool even in the public sector, and all but the most minute token portions of those resources would go to oil, coal, and nuclear if the Republicans have their way.  Everybody get out there and help Obama win in November.

    Pardon the self-promotion, but if you want more rants from me, visit http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.com/On Media finally tells public about the real roadblock to good energy policy posted 1 year, 3 months ago 8 Responses

  • Comment + Questions

    As others on this thread have said, the issues are: (a) peak oil refers to global peak oil, not OPEC peak oil...look closely at Cantarell and the Russian oil fields, and (b)Jeffrey Brown's export land model is just as important to consider as the production peak.  Having added my 2 cents, let me ask a few questions:

    a) Anyone have any explanations for the China demand destruction story?  I don't necessarily buy it.  I do know that there were plans to build a strategic reserve and I suspect that the lack of reserve infrastructure in China is allowing the price of crude to dip currently; otherwise, the Chinese would and should be hoarding as much $113 oil as they can.

    b) From a market opportunity perspective, the Middle East seems an attractive market for solar power.  Anyone have any thoughts on what the best country markets might be to do business with as an American?  Love to hear any inputs on this.On New data point shows that OPEC's production hit highest level ever last month posted 1 year, 3 months ago 25 Responses

  • Problem solved

    Barack Obama is not only the superior candidate but the superior politician.  Did you get the move last night?On The crucial mistake Dems made in the energy fight posted 1 year, 3 months ago 12 Responses

  • Also agreed, but...

    You are correct that the Republicans outmaneuvered the Democrats on that one.  It never even occurred to the Democrats to question the very existence of oil in restricted US offshore waters, the cost of exploration and development in those areas, and who (American taxpayers) the Republicans have in mind as paying for all that drilling.  If you can stomach some sexist stuff and my rant, I cover much of this and try to fight Republican misinformation and propaganda at:  http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.com

    Thankfully, Obama is a superior candidate and better yet a superior politician to McCain, and low-information voters might not even get that Congress is Democratic.  When and if Obama gets elected - and better yet if also we get 60 Democrats in the Senate - all this "Drill! Drill! Drill!" nonsense will go away.

    Keep up the fight.On The crucial mistake Dems made in the energy fight posted 1 year, 4 months ago 12 Responses