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Mine's lighter than yours	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When society embraces vehicle fuel efficiency as a goal, hordes of smart people converge on it and try to outdo each other. The same thing will happen when we seriously go after electrical efficiency -- a wave of precocious, egotistical young people that haven't been told what can't be done will chase after it trying to make their mark. I bet we're going to proceed faster than people think.
Topics: cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Coal money talks, public ignores Poll shows 86 percent of public wants a five-year halt on new coal plants	Ted Nace	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Shortly before the July 4 holiday, Opinion Research Corporation released a poll entitled 'Opinions About Gas Prices and U.S. Energy Independence' [PDF] which shows -- drum roll please -- that the public, by a three-to-one margin, is either 'very angry' or 'somewhat angry' about gasoline prices. While gas prices grabbed the headlines, the poll also happened to ask a number of questions about coal, and the answers were both interesting and surprising: The percentage of ...
Topics: advertising, coal, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Your city council could save the world How local building codes can be adapted to meet the 2030 Challenge right now	Edward Mazria	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Compared to cutting-edge technologies -- nanotechnology, coal with carbon capture and sequestration, biomimicry -- building codes seem downright stodgy and, dare I say it?, boring. Yet, much to the surprise of many, building codes are fast becoming the Titans in the battle against climate change. Able to fell with a single blow the giants on the other side of the battlefield -- out-of-control greenhouse-gas emissions, thoughtless energy consumption, and gross energy in ...
Topics: energy, green building, legislation, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Slowly But Offshorely, the Drills are Gonna Turn Top Dems in Congress open to possible compromise deal on offshore drilling		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 09 Jul 2008 Some key Democrats in Congress have said they're willing to work out a compromise deal to open some offshore areas in U.S. waters to oil and gas drilling. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he's "open to drilling and responsible production." He also said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might also sup ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable Oil in the ocean: light as a feather!	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'These [oil] firms have learned a lot over the past two decades and three decades about their ability to go out and put a platform in water and extract oil and do it in a way that they're not causing any environmental harm at all.' -- White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto
Topics: dumbassery, energy, insanity, oil, politics, quotables, video (all these topics)

Memo to T. Boone Pickens His energy plan is half brilliant, half dumb	Joseph Romm	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Phone Call based on a true story Major cable network: What do you think of T. Boone Pickens' latest energy plan? Me: Half of it is great -- the big push on wind power. Heck, even the Bush administration says wind power could be 20 percent of U.S. electricity. But the notion that we would use the wind power to free up natural gas in order to fuel a transition to natural gas vehicles makes no sense. Why would we go to the trouble of switching our vehicle fleet f ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, natural gas, wind power (all these topics)

We Said What We Parliament E.U. committee vote signals backstep from biofuels		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:11 PM on 08 Jul 2008 The European Union took another step back from biofuels late Monday, as the Parliament's environment committee approved 36-0 a proposal to lower the E.U.'s original target for biofueled transportation. The committee's proposal would have the E.U. source just 4 percent of transportation fuels from biomass by 2015, then do a major review before jumping to the current target of 10 percent ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, European Union, international politics, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Energy ad wars begin New Obama ad knocks McCain's energy policy	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama's campaign has released a new ad to counter those from the Republican National Committee criticizing his energy plan. Obama's ad, called 'New Energy,' accuses opponent John McCain of being 'part of the problem' and hits on his support of drilling and tax breaks for oil companies. The ad says that energy independence is an 'urgent priority' for the Democratic candidate, and notes his plans to invest in alternative energy and tax cuts for the middle class ...
Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

RNC: 'balance' = a climate in crisis; Senate GOP: 'balance' = climate-destroying shale Republican leaders advocate domestic shale development	Joseph Romm	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' The Republican National Committee just launched an ad called, 'Balance' claiming we have 'a climate in crisis.' Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) introduced the Climate Destruction Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008 late last month that would repeal the congressional moratorium on shale development. In a press release ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Pickens Choose Texas oilman unveils Pickens Plan to avert U.S. energy crisis		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 08 Jul 2008 T. Boone Pickens. Photo: University of Texas America has a problem, and T. Boone Pickens has a solution. "U.S. dependency on foreign oil has reached an economic crisis point," says the infamous Texas oilman, who in response has unveiled The Pickens Plan. The 80-year-old billionaire proposes that private investors fund the construction of thousands of wind turbines from Texas n ...
Topics: energy, innovation, natural gas, news, renewable energy, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Toil Conservation How to green your day job		08 Jul 2008	From A to Green
Simple steps are the key to a greener office. Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to waste we go. Nope, those aren't the lyrics the Disney dwarves belted out en route to the daily grind, but in today's world they're right on the money. Most skyscrapers, offices, and cubicles are eco disaster areas, squandering massive amounts of energy, water, and paper while spewing out toxins and trash. It's enough to make a person downright weepy (not to mention g ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, green jobs, green living, greening biz operations (all these topics)

TGIT State workers in Utah will enjoy mandatory three-day weekends		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:16 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Starting in August, thousands of Utahns will begin enjoying mandatory three-day weekends. Some 17,000 government employees will switch to a compressed workweek -- four days a week, 10 hours a day -- as the state undergoes a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing energy and fuel costs as well as greenhouse-gas emissions. While employees of various U.S. counties and cities mandate a shortened week, ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, innovation, news, progress, Utah (all these topics)

Oil prices will go ... up? No easy explanation for continued price increases in the oil markets	Jason D Scorse	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
At the end of last year I predicted that the price of oil would go down; so far I have been terribly wrong. My prediction, shared by many other economists and energy experts, was premised on a reasonable assumption: Since the world was headed for an economic slowdown, brought about the housing bubble and the financial crisis, global demand for energy would likely moderate, putting downward pressure on prices. While it was a sensible prediction, I am happy that no one ...
Topics: economy, energy, gas prices, oil, oil sands, renewable energy (all these topics)

CCS: Environmental whack-a-mole	Sean Casten	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Carbon capture and sequestration gets heralded as a great way to lower CO2 emissions and keep burning coal. Unfortuantely, it also kills the efficiency of the coal plant, meaning that every other environmental externality associated with coal-fired generation -- from mountaintop removal to power plant siting -- is exacerbated by CCS. Planet Ark puts it succinctly: The process called carbon capture and sequestration requires as much as 20 percent of the electricity ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The Iraqi Oil Ministry's new fave five All the oil news that's fit to print	Guest author	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- On June 19, the New York Times broke the story in an article headlined 'Deals with Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back: Rare No-Bid Contracts, A Foothold for Western Companies Seeking Future Rewards.' Finally, after a long five years-plus, there was ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Iraq, mainstream media, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, White House (all these topics)

The hare and the tortoise Costs for utilities rise faster than politically palatable rate changes can keep up	Sean Casten	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is one for the 'Things No One is Talking About But Should' file. Greenwire has this report ($ub. req'd) from Standard & Poor's noting that the credit risk of our utilities depends in large part on their ability to recover rising fuel costs, and this ability is diminished due to the fact that: High fuel costs translate directly to higher customer rates, but instituting constant and often significant increases is politically and socially unpalatable. Th ...
Topics: electricity grid, gas prices, economy, energy (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon II A chat with Portland's Charlie Stephens about petrodollars and oil wars	Melinda Henneberger	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. One thing I learned traveling around the country a couple of years ago, talking to voters for a political book I was working on, is that Americans tend to give their elected officials a super-size helping of benefit of the doubt. One night, I was in Suffolk, Va., having dinner with some active-duty ...
Topics: economy, energy, Iraq, oil, Oregon, politics, Voters Voices (all these topics)

On a Clear Day, You Can AC Forever Toyota may put solar panels on new Prius to power air conditioning		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:47 AM on 07 Jul 2008 A Japanese newspaper is reporting that Toyota plans to install solar panels on its next model of the popular Prius hybrid. If the company follows through, it would be the first major automaker to incorporate solar power into its vehicles. Even with the panels, though, the pimped-out Prius wouldn't actually run on solar power (it's still a gasoline-electric hybri ...
Topics: business, cars, energy, news, Prius, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Ad lib RNC drops $3 million to promote McCain's energy plan	Kate Sheppard	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Over the weekend, the Republican National Committee launched their 10-day, $3 million campaign to tout John McCain's energy policy with this ad: 'Record gas prices, a climate in crisis. John McCain says solve it now,' says the ad. 'With a balanced plan -- alternative energy, conservation, suspending the gas tax and more production here at home. He's pushing his own party to face climate change.' It goes on to hit Barack Obama for not supporting McCain's 'gas- ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

When Ads Attack! Presidential campaign ads go on attack over energy issues		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:00 AM on 07 Jul 2008 The first major ad buy this year from a major party aired over the weekend, a TV spot courtesy of the Republican National Committee attacking Democratic candidate Barack Obama for a lack of creativity on the energy scene. While John McCain is "pushing his own party to face climate change," the ad says that Obama isn't pushing the boundaries like his rival. The ad points out that ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, news, politics, presidential campaign 08 (all these topics)

Pray harder!	David Roberts	06 Jul 2008	Gristmill
My petroleum god, why hast thou forsaken me?
Topics: energy, oil, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Polluter appeasement Should we question the patriotism of deniers?	Joseph Romm	04 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Independence Day may be the best day to ask ourselves -- what is the greatest preventable threat to Americans' life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (LLPH). The answer is simple: human-caused global warming. Certainly there are other major threats to LLPH, the gravest of which is probably terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapon, in this country. Between Homeland Security and the Pentagon, we spend billions of dollars every m ...
Topics: climate, climate science, energy, fossil fuels, holiday, politics (all these topics)

The drill of the chase RNC to drop $3 million on ads hitting Obama on energy	Kate Sheppard	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Roll Call reports ($ub. req'd): The Republican National Committee is launching $3 million in independent expenditure television ads in four states, focusing on the energy issue. The ad is slated to run on network and cable television in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and will highlight the differences between Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on energy security. 'Following Barack Obama's decision to become the only major party ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Sweetening the deal Lugar calls for end to tariff on Brazilian sugarcane ethanol	Kate Sheppard	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) stopped by ($ub. req'd) the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to give a speech arguing that Congress should lift the 54-cents-a-gallon tariff on imported ethanol. 'To demonstrate leadership the United States should lift its tariff on Brazilian ethanol that now shelters the U.S. industry,' Lugar told the AEI crowd. Many politicians -- including Lugar, who's from a big corn state -- have supported the tariff to protect American biofuel ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Drilling offshore vs. fuel efficiency	David Roberts	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Over at CEPR, Dean Baker makes a somewhat cutesy but still quite illustrative comparison: the barrels of oil per day we could get by 2027 through offshore drilling (when production rate will max out) vs. the oil savings we would have gotten per day if we'd continued ramping up the CAFE standard at roughly the 1980-1985 rate. Here's what he came up with: Hm, efficiency or a crack addict's desperate search for increased supply? Tough choice!
Topics: cutesy, energy, fuel efficiency, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

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