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'A massive, fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy' I think Friedman is upset with Bush	David Roberts	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Mustache kicks ass today. He says it's 'hard for [him] to find the words to express what a massive, fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy' Bush is backing, but he manages fairly well. Extra kudos for highlighting the absurd refusal of Republicans to renew the PTC and ITC. One ommission: he doesn't mention that John McCain is out on the campaign trail pushing the drilling uber alles policy as we speak.
Topics: energy, politics, George Bush, John McCain (all these topics)

A hundred miles of mirrors Solar thermal can save us, but it needs public clamor	Ted Nace	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
[Editor's note: When this post was originally run, the phrase '100 miles by 100 miles' was changed to '100 square miles,' which is very different. The article has now been corrected (or rather, unmiscorrected) and the appropriate intern flogged; our apologies to Ted and Alex.] This post was coauthored with Alex Carlin, organizer of Let's Go Solar and instigator of the recent Environment America study (PDF), 'On the Rise: Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy (all these topics)

Dear swing state, I love you more! Obama sweet-talks Florida, criticizes McCain's shift on off-shore drilling	Kate Sheppard	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama responded to John McCain's call to end the moratorium on off-shore drilling in a press appearance in Chicago on Friday and made his own appeal to the voters of Florida: When I am President, I will keep the moratorium in place and prevent oil companies from drilling off Florida's coasts. That's how we can protect our coasts and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas p ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green coal baron? NYT Magazine's fawning piece on Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers	Frank O'Donnell	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There's no doubt about it: Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers is the most adept figure in corporate America at making himself look better than he is. He's proven it again in an extremely flattering profile in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. The piece refers to Rogers as 'one of the electricity industry's most vocal environmentalists.' Indeed, the piece reports that many 'prominent environmentalists' are his 'friends' and quotes in particular Eileen Claussen, he ...
Topics: business, cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hill heap A weekly roundup of greenish news from the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	21 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A few of this week's environmental happenings that I've been meaning to point out: Oilman-turned-clean-energy-evangelist T. Boone Pickens came to town to testify about the country's transmission problems that are preventing wind from becoming a major source of power. Pickens, who is attempting to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas, joined experts from the Department of Energy and wind-energy lobbyists in testifying before the Senate Committee on Energ ...
Topics: climate, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Solar strides in New York Solar proponents in the Empire State eagerly await new legislation	Adam Browning	21 Jun 2008	Gristmill
My colleague, Shaun Chapman, of our New York City office, offers this update on solar policy progress in the Empire State: Though it is the 5th largest solar state (PDF) (as measured by cumulative installed photovoltaic capacity), there have been strong feelings among solar proponents that New York needs to play catch up in the photovolatic market. It is catching up. Fast. Two very important bills just passed the legislature and will immediately be signed by ...
Topics: energy, legislation, New York, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Dig it Krupp On Charlie Rose, EDF leader Fred Krupp endorses domestic drilling for new oil	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
EDF chief Fred Krupp appeared on the Charlie Rose show yesterday. For the most part, it was the usual stumping for cap-and-trade. However, Rose pushed him on the question of whether, in the short-term, we need to drill for new oil. After quite a bit of dodging and weaving, Krupp, rather startlingly, said we should assess domestic drilling on a case-by-case basis. Rose kept pushing, saying, 'Do we need to be drilling for new oil in the short term?' Says Krupp: 'yes, abs ...
Topics: carbon trading, energy, Environmental Defense Fund, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Cuckoo for kudzu Kudzu as the next biofuel source?	Gar Lipow	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Some biofuel experts seem to think that the next big biofuel source should be kudzu in the U.S. I hope biodiversity experts and readers from the South will comment on this idea. Take the poll beneath the fold:
Topics: biofuels, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

A huge tax increase? The GOP disinformation machine settles on an angle	Ryan Avent	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
It seems that another way that the GOP will try to win on this issue is by painting carbon pricing as a massive tax increase. This is just dishonest, though politically it's their best bet (assuming a complete lack of regard for actual outcomes). Let's all think back to the Lieberman-Warner debate, when Bush did his best to scare the crap out of everyone by arguing that L-W would increase gas prices 53 cents-per-gallon by 2030. In fact, it's difficult to imagine th ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, gas prices, politics (all these topics)

Nuclear deterrence, part two Lovins and Sheikh defend definition and record of micropower	Guest author	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh of the Rocky Mountain Institute. It is part two of a series; see part one here. ----- Part two of David Bradish's critical look at 'The Nuclear Illusion' (PDF) raises two additional issues to which we respond here. As in his first critique, it appears that, unable to rebut and hence unwilling to address our paper's data and logic, Mr. Bradish must content himself with trying to manufacture an illus ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, nuclear power, Amory Lovins (all these topics)

The mpg illusion Gallons per mile: A better way to express fuel efficiency	Maywa Montenegro	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Let's say a pollster walks up to you and asks you the following question: 'A town maintains a fleet of vehicles for town employee use. It has two types of vehicles. Type A gets 15 miles per gallon. Type B gets 34 miles per gallon. The town has 100 Type A vehicles and 100 Type B vehicles. Each car in the fleet is driven 10,000 miles per year.' The town wants to replace these vehicles with corresponding hybrid models in order to to reduce gas consumption of th ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

Conservation good. Drilling stupid	Andrew Dessler	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman. Reads like a Grist post. Go figure.
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Big bad boom Radioactive deja vu in the American West	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Chip Ward, author and board member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- In the American West, we take global warming personally. Like those polar bears desperately hunting for dwindling ice flows, we feel we're on the frontlines of the new weather regime. The West is drying up. For example, canyon-hugging conservationists ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental movement, nuclear power, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Some clarity on the Clarity Honda fuel-cell vehicle: Not marketable, practical, or environmental	Joseph Romm	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Technology Review asked me to comment about the hype over the new Honda fuel-cell car, which the company optimistically calls 'the world's first hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle intended for mass production.' The key word here is 'intended.' Here it is: ----- Would you buy a car that costs 10 times as much as a hybrid gasoline-electric, like the Prius? What if I told you it had half the range of the hybrid? What if I told you most cities didn't have a single ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, energy, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Stormy waters Offshore drilling likely to raise some voter ire in Florida	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's call this week for an end to the moratorium on offshore drilling isn't faring well with environmentalists across the country. In one key state, however, it might really come back to bite him come November. Florida -- yes, land of dangling chads and nearly-won elections -- may well prove to be the place where McCain's call for drilling cost him in the general election. 'I think that he has made a serious miscalculation,' Holly Binns, field director fo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Why more drilling is not the answer Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt	Michael Moynihan	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN blog. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shock perhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved by drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the Outer Continental Shelf. This is the idea that the right wing media, recently John McCain, and now President Bush have been pushing as a cure-all for soaring oil prices. Since many Democrats oppose this drilling, the next false logica ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Well, when you put it that way ... Rasmussen poll biased on offshore drilling	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Rasmussen Reports did a poll that they tout as showing '67 percent Support Offshore Drilling.' Given the biased way they did the poll (details here), I'm surprised the number was so low. The first question they asked: 'How concerned are you about rising gas and energy prices?' Pretty much everybody is concerned. Duh. But in a flawed poll, almost a push poll, the point of the first question is to get people thinking about about the pain of gasoline prices, rath ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

You know things are getting bad ...	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
... when even China is raising fuel prices.
Topics: China, energy, gas prices (all these topics)

The Grand Ostrich Party Conservative heads increasingly buried in sand	Ryan Avent	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Andrew Sullivan reads this Jim Manzi post (Conservatives are going to win on climate change! By doing nothing!) and says he's on board. He then proceeds to blow my freaking mind: The key will be private and public innovation of non-carbon energy, and possibly carbon capture technology. Frankly, however painful it is for many, the high price of gas is perhaps the best anti-global warming non-policy there is. Now, why is it that the high price of gas is the best an ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

OMG, CNN actually reports Major news network exposes McCain's energy contradictions	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Does not compute: Only thing is, they keep saying, 'this shows how tricky it is for McCain.' What it also shows, one might think, is that McCain is willing to lie and change his positions willy nilly. They used to call Democrats people 'flip-floppers' and 'serial exaggerators' for that sort of thing. With McCain, it's just some sort of objective difficulty in the landscape that forces him to lunge this way and that on policy. Which you know pains him, since he's ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

It's Worth a Shot Hunters' group sues Interior Dept for drilling's impacts on wildlife		19 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:52 AM on 19 Jun 2008 The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a coalition of hunting, fishing, and conservation groups, is suing the U.S. Interior Department over the impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in southwestern Wyoming. Some 1,000 natural-gas wells puncture the landscape of the state's Pinedale Anticline gas fields, with over 4,000 more wells likely to be drilled in the next 60 yea ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, Wyoming (all these topics)

Nuclear deterrence Lovins and Sheikh defend their work in 'The Nuclear Illusion'	Guest author	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh of the Rocky Mountain Institute. ----- David Bradish, in a post on the blog of the Nuclear Energy Institute, criticizes our methodology used to derive micropower's output in 'The Nuclear Illusion' (PDF). As Mr. Bradish notes in hypertext, our methodology is online here (PDF), and our micropower database is posted and documented here. Here's our point-by-point response to his critique: 'With the exceptio ...
Topics: cogeneration, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil drilling = oil spilling How greens and Democrats can win the energy debate	Glenn Hurowitz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If the pro-environment Republican wasn't already dead, I think this week killed him. John McCain, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, President Bush, and many others threw overboard one of the last policy planks Republicans (at least in coastal states) used to show that they're pro-environment too by calling for a massive offshore drilling program. As chronicled in this excellent article by Politico's Charles Mathesian and David Mark, it's a politically risky move for Rep ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

EIA to McCain: Drop offshore (drilling) Offshore drilling will have no impact on oil prices through 2030	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain has flip-flopped his position on offshore drilling, pandered to the oil companies, and embraced the exact same strategy endorsed by the man McCain is trying so hard to run away from -- President Bush. He must have a damn good policy reason: 'Tomorrow I'll call for lifting the federal moratorium for states that choose to permit exploration,' McCain said. 'I think that this and perhaps providing additional incentives for states to permit exploration off their co ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

No luv from Democratic guvs McCain's offshore drilling plan irks coastal state governors	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Obama campaign hosted a press conference this afternoon with Democratic governors to highlight opposition to John McCain's call to end the moratorium on offshore drilling. The governors expressed uniform distaste with the proposal, and skepticism that voters in their states would approve of drilling off their coasts. 'Our economy is driven by tourism and use of the shore,' said Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey. 'I think we would have a hard time getting p ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

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