<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for McCain’s VP pick has a mixed record on supporting renewables in home state]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Russ http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:06:03 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/1 "This year,

everyone in the state is getting $2,069 from the state's oil royalties fund, as well as another $1,200 from the state treasury to help offset high fuel prices.

Palin and Mccain - Welfare and Warfare.

]]> "This year,

everyone in the state is getting $2,069 from the state's oil royalties fund, as well as another $1,200 from the state treasury to help offset high fuel prices.

Palin and Mccain - Welfare and Warfare.

]]> Comment #2 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:57:53 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/2 Geo-exchange, geothermal opportunity missed.

If Sara Palin had really been a conservationist and concerned about Alaska citizens she could have dedicated that $700 million to subsidizing geothermal/geoexchange heating for Alaskan households.

At a direct subsidy of $10k per household installed and assuming 2.5 residents per household that would have covered 70k installlations yearly. That could have fitted every household in AK with geothermal heat in four years resulting in a huge economic benefit for her state.

Instead she handed out cash checks that went straight into the oil companies bank accounts at the end of the day. What a waste.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Geo-exchange, geothermal opportunity missed.

If Sara Palin had really been a conservationist and concerned about Alaska citizens she could have dedicated that $700 million to subsidizing geothermal/geoexchange heating for Alaskan households.

At a direct subsidy of $10k per household installed and assuming 2.5 residents per household that would have covered 70k installlations yearly. That could have fitted every household in AK with geothermal heat in four years resulting in a huge economic benefit for her state.

Instead she handed out cash checks that went straight into the oil companies bank accounts at the end of the day. What a waste.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Comment #3 by Angelsnecropolis http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:04:52 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/3 No friend of mine...

Sounds like to me she's bribing the Alaskans to keep in their favor without really solving the root of the problem. Instead of helping to lower their energy bills she's just dishing out money to them instead

It seems obvious to me that she is not a friend to the environment with her strong opposition to endangered species and her failed actions for energy efficiency and renewable. She can talk all she wants but without action to back it up her words are meaningless.

]]> No friend of mine...

Sounds like to me she's bribing the Alaskans to keep in their favor without really solving the root of the problem. Instead of helping to lower their energy bills she's just dishing out money to them instead

It seems obvious to me that she is not a friend to the environment with her strong opposition to endangered species and her failed actions for energy efficiency and renewable. She can talk all she wants but without action to back it up her words are meaningless.

]]> Comment #4 by GreyFlcn http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:24:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/4 Not just that

It seems like Palin is using State Debt (i.e. Bonds) for ALL state infrastructure projects.

http://greyfalcon.net/palin.wma
http://greyfalcon.net/palin2
http://greyfalcon.net/palin3

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Not only is she anti-renewables.
She's anti-infrastructure.

-David Ahlport




]]> Not just that

It seems like Palin is using State Debt (i.e. Bonds) for ALL state infrastructure projects.

http://greyfalcon.net/palin.wma
http://greyfalcon.net/palin2
http://greyfalcon.net/palin3

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Not only is she anti-renewables.
She's anti-infrastructure.

-David Ahlport




]]> Comment #5 by Palinater http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:48:55 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/5 There's always a loophole

Palin is the missing link between the oil&gas industry and anti-environmentalism. The main thing stopping us from reversing global warming is big oil profits. I just thought this video was hilarious, maybe Palin should start dying the polar bear fur to grizzly color. McCain should have picked Gary Busey.

]]> There's always a loophole

Palin is the missing link between the oil&gas industry and anti-environmentalism. The main thing stopping us from reversing global warming is big oil profits. I just thought this video was hilarious, maybe Palin should start dying the polar bear fur to grizzly color. McCain should have picked Gary Busey.

]]> Comment #6 by Russ http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:04:42 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/palin-and-renewables/6 Alaska is a petrostate

Sounds like to me she's bribing the Alaskans to keep in their favor without really solving the root of the problem. Instead of helping to lower their energy bills she's just dishing out money to them instead

This is characteristic behavior of petrostates. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others subsidize energy domestically in order to buy the people's allegience. Indeed Iran, for all its oil production, has to import gasoline, that's how much the subsidies have spurred domestic consumption.

In this week's Time Michael Kinsley calls Alaska "an adjunct of OPEC".

That's exactly right - any petrostate, by working to perpetuate the oil economy and keep America hunkered in the bunker, and this is all Alaska's government does, is working for the domination of OPEC, since all of Alaska's oil is only a few drops of America's consumption, and it's not earmarked for domestic use anyway. Much of it is sold to Asia.

]]> Alaska is a petrostate

Sounds like to me she's bribing the Alaskans to keep in their favor without really solving the root of the problem. Instead of helping to lower their energy bills she's just dishing out money to them instead

This is characteristic behavior of petrostates. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others subsidize energy domestically in order to buy the people's allegience. Indeed Iran, for all its oil production, has to import gasoline, that's how much the subsidies have spurred domestic consumption.

In this week's Time Michael Kinsley calls Alaska "an adjunct of OPEC".

That's exactly right - any petrostate, by working to perpetuate the oil economy and keep America hunkered in the bunker, and this is all Alaska's government does, is working for the domination of OPEC, since all of Alaska's oil is only a few drops of America's consumption, and it's not earmarked for domestic use anyway. Much of it is sold to Asia.

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