<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for We’ll Miss the Mall]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Sustainable Bend http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:25:22 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/1 Edwards

I like his new commitment to this topic, but he needs to come up with something better than offsets when justifying his new house.

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I like his new commitment to this topic, but he needs to come up with something better than offsets when justifying his new house.

]]> Comment #2 by Ron Steenblik http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:06:59 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/2 And he needs to present the costs of his proposals

Like his proposal to stimulate production of 65 billion gallons of ethanol by 2025. If current subsidies for ethanol remain in place, that would cost the U.S. Treasury roughly $350 billion between now and 2025.

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Like his proposal to stimulate production of 65 billion gallons of ethanol by 2025. If current subsidies for ethanol remain in place, that would cost the U.S. Treasury roughly $350 billion between now and 2025.

]]> Comment #3 by vjbeach http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/ Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:04:37 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/well-miss-the-mall/3 The VOTE

Many of us were attendees at MoveOn.org LiveEarth parties yesterday where we watched with some hope of finding a few 'real' answers to some not too ingenious questions about just how the candidates would handle global warming if elected and what set them apart from their rivals. Most of the answers were non-answers really and, although some boasted of how they were treating global warming as their 'top priority', most merely postured about how great their plans were and gave very little convincing evidence about just how they might actually go about achieving these goals.

I think of all the candiates included, Chris Dodd and John Edwards had the most forward thinking plans with what sounded like perhaps the commitment to actually move forward with them. While Richardson talks big numbers (man, I LOVE 50mpg by 2020!), he just doesn't convince me that he's got the charisma and compassion to carry the country in a direction I hope to see us go. Kucinich is the most warm and fuzzy of all but he doesn't seem to be articulate enough on just how he would go about making real changes and, on the League of Conservation Voters' Global Warming Score Card, he is not very aggressive about his stance.

Suffice it to say, it's politics as usual but I think my vote (which was sort of following Obama) is definitely going elsewhere now. Edwards is one of the frontrunners but, wow, I'm gonna find out more about this Dodd fellow!!!

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Many of us were attendees at MoveOn.org LiveEarth parties yesterday where we watched with some hope of finding a few 'real' answers to some not too ingenious questions about just how the candidates would handle global warming if elected and what set them apart from their rivals. Most of the answers were non-answers really and, although some boasted of how they were treating global warming as their 'top priority', most merely postured about how great their plans were and gave very little convincing evidence about just how they might actually go about achieving these goals.

I think of all the candiates included, Chris Dodd and John Edwards had the most forward thinking plans with what sounded like perhaps the commitment to actually move forward with them. While Richardson talks big numbers (man, I LOVE 50mpg by 2020!), he just doesn't convince me that he's got the charisma and compassion to carry the country in a direction I hope to see us go. Kucinich is the most warm and fuzzy of all but he doesn't seem to be articulate enough on just how he would go about making real changes and, on the League of Conservation Voters' Global Warming Score Card, he is not very aggressive about his stance.

Suffice it to say, it's politics as usual but I think my vote (which was sort of following Obama) is definitely going elsewhere now. Edwards is one of the frontrunners but, wow, I'm gonna find out more about this Dodd fellow!!!

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