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Nuclear energy is from Mars, part two
Why is nuclear energy what 'real men' support? |
David Roberts |
18 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On Friday, I pointed to some survey results showing that more men than women support nuclear power, by a 72-40 percent margin. Today, I was reading a Lou Aguilar piece in National Review called "Real Men Vote for McCain" -- which as far as I can tell is not parody, though it's difficult to be sure these days -- and I ran across this: 3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy. Put aside the merits. I want to focus on a specific question: ... |
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| Topics: energy, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Demergy
Energy in the Democratic platform |
David Roberts |
18 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here's a selection from the Democratic platform (PDF), final draft released Friday. What do you think? --- New American Energy In the local platform hearings, Americans talked about the importance of energy to the economy, to national security and to the health of our planet. Speaking loud and clear, they said that America needs a new bold and sustainable energy policy to meet the challenges of our time. In the past, America has been stirred to ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Voters' Voices: Virginia
Talking with voters in northern Virginia about the environment and the election |
Melinda Henneberger |
15 Aug 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. Reston Town Center. Reston, Va. -- If Virginia were a person, it would look a lot like Rod Markham, a federal contractor, retired from the Army, who's leaning ever so slightly toward Obama but is still of two minds about the presidential race. "There's a part of me that wants so bad ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia, Voters Voices (all these topics) |
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Gauging virtue
After the tire gauge fiasco, Obama's counterpunch should equate McCain with Cheney |
Joseph Romm |
15 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- An old friend of mine used to say that at a certain stage in political campaigns, dead cats start flying through the air. I've never understood what he meant by that, but I think the cat-flinging has begun. Both candidates are doing their share, but one exchange deserves special analysis: The attack against Barack Obama's comment abou ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy at home, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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The pretender
Why McCain hates renewables but pretends he loves them |
Joseph Romm |
15 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| McCain has been an opponent of renewable energy all his political life. Why? He is a conservative -- and that is what conservatives do. The GOP's ultra-rich big energy donors don't like competition and dole out millions to get their way. He has long been uncomfortable around cutting edge technology -- witness his Internet illiteracy. As a former FCC chair put it, 'Basically, John is a technological troglodyte, and proud of it.' And yet in his speeches an ... |
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| Topics: energy, fossil fuels, John McCain, mainstream media, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Quick, before time is up!
Will Gore be veep? |
David Roberts |
14 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I was just thinking to myself, "self, the time is rapidly running out for speculating about Al Gore running for president being selected as Obama's VP! What fun will punditry be then?" Luckily, Bob Kuttner's got our backs: Most folks have assumed that Gore is off the VP list, but he hasn't been slotted as a convention speaker yet, which is curious since Gore is one of the party's superstars and its most effective spokesperson on energy and the environment ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Quayle's brain
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Adam Browning |
14 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Advice that readers of The New York Times should consider every Monday: When asked about Kristol's suggestion that Powell might attend the Democratic National Convention, former Reagan White House Chief of Staff and Powell confidante Ken Duberstein took a swipe at Kristol.'Consider the source,' said Duberstein, referring to Kristol who once served as a top aide to Vice President Dan Quayle. 'He was the person who advertised himself as Dan Quayle's brain. Colin P ... |
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| Topics: politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics) |
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McCain economics
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David Roberts |
14 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here's Obama's new ad hitting McCain: I'm not entirely sure I get the Iraq bit. Is the Obama campaign now trying to cast Iraq as some sort of pampered welfare recipient? I know it now has an oil surplus, but it's not exactly like they're sitting pretty over there. |
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| Topics: advertising, elections, Iraq, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Party Is as Party Does
Democratic party platform outlines green goals |
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14 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:33 AM on 14 Aug 2008 The Democratic Party released its national platform Thursday ahead of its upcoming convention in Denver. While the health-care section is Hillary-esque, most sections, including those environment- and energy-related, echo the calls that Barack Obama has made throughout his campaign. The section "New American Energy" declares that Dems will create up to 5 million jobs in the green-ene ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Exxon John
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David Roberts |
13 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Democratic National Committee is being mean to John McCain again: |
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| Topics: advertising, Big Oil, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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The vow of silence is broken
Media finally tells public about the real roadblock to good energy policy |
David Roberts |
12 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Holy hot dog hosannas, I don't believe it! Finally someone in the mainstream media has seen fit to share with the public one of the basic facts necessary to understand the energy politics of the last two years: Senator McCain did not show up for the crucial vote [to extend the renewable tax credits] on July 30, and the renewable energy bill was defeated for the eighth time. In fact, John McCain has a perfect record on this renewable energy legislation. He has m ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Failures in framing, Chapter XXXIVMMX
The public's attention, for the first time in ages, is focused on energy policy |
David Roberts |
12 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This article by the AP's Tina Lam is generally awful in terms of contrasting the candidates on energy. There is exactly one paragraph about what Obama is for, and the rest is a recitation of McCain proposals Obama has opposed. It's designed, on purpose or by tacit acceptance of right-wing conventional wisdom, to make Obama look like the guy who opposes everything and McCain look like the guy with ideas (as if drilling for oil is a brilliant new policy proposal). It als ... |
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| Topics: energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Sandor slander
Head of CCX endorses McCain's cap-and-trade program, reveals misunderstanding of climate policy |
David Roberts |
11 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Over on Huffington Post, Frank Carlson has a story revealing that Richard Sandor, the founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, supports McCain's cap-and-trade system over Obama's -- that is to say, he supports giving pollution permits away rather than auctioning them. The story reveals that neither Carlson nor Sandor understands the difference very well. Here's how Carlson frames it: McCain says he would dole out permits in much the same way proposed by the Clima ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, economy, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Veep impact
The pro- and anti-coal contenders on Obama's veep shortlist |
Frank O'Donnell |
11 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A commentary on vice presidential prospects by Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project, and Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. ----- As presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama prepares to make perhaps his most important campaign decision -- his choice of a running mate -- two governors are said to be on the short list: Tim Kaine of Virginia and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. Both are smart and popular. Both ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, coal, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Waste not, want not
Obama campaign targets McCain's support of dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain |
Kate Sheppard |
11 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a new ad over the weekend in Nevada, targeting Republican rival John McCain's support for dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. 'Imagine trucks hauling the nation's nuclear waste on our highways to Yucca Mountain,' the ad says. 'John McCain supports opening Yucca. He's not worried about nuclear waste in our state -- only in Arizona.' The ad then replays video of a May 2007 interview with McCain in whic ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Conventional wisdom?
Democratic and Republican conventions pledge to be greener than ever before |
Kate Sheppard |
10 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Can you find the green in this picture? Photo: Vidiot Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions have pledged to go greener this year. And they've drawn mockery for their efforts -- particularly the Democrats, who say they'll be putting on 'the most sustainable political convention in modern American history.' A Wall Street Journal article in June reported that convention organizers were having difficulty finding union-made, organic-cotton f ... |
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| Topics: Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, greenwashing, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Republican National Convention (all these topics) |
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An ad campaign of Olympic proportions
Obama clean-energy ad will air during Olympics coverage |
Kate Sheppard |
08 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Thought the Olympics might bring some reprieve from election season? Think again. Today Barack Obama rolled out his $5 million ad campaign that will run during Olympic coverage on NBC, focusing on a clean energy economy. 'The hands that built this nation can build a new economy,' says the ad, as it shows images of people working on solar panels, wind farms, and other eco-friendly projects. It repeats the candidate's pledge to create 5 million green jobs, and ple ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, Muckraker, news, Olympics, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Who's getting the oil money?
Obama favored by Exxon employees, but McCain has gotten more oil money overall |
Kate Sheppard |
08 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Barack Obama put out an ad earlier this week accusing rival John McCain of being 'in the pocket of Big Oil,' and the Democratic National Committee launched Exxon-McCain 2008, a website to promote the idea that the Republican candidate is in bed with the oil industry. But as Grist noted previously, Obama himself has received nearly $400,000 in donations from contributors in the oil and gas industries this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Polit ... |
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| Topics: campaign contributions, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Get to work!
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David Roberts |
07 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| MoveOn takes on McCain the voteskipper: For more on those votes, see here. |
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| Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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'I'm not a historian'
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David Roberts |
07 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hilarious: (via TPM) |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, dumbassery, energy, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Gas impasse
Obama campaign's attempts to get gas ads at the pump foiled |
Kate Sheppard |
07 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Barack Obama's campaign wanted to bring the energy ad wars directly to the pump, but their attempts have been foiled. The campaign wanted to run an ad on the mini TV screens that appear on some gas pumps, pointing out that John McCain voted against higher fuel-economy standards and renewable energy, and that Obama is calling for a $1,000 energy rebate and measures to move toward energy independence. The campaign intended to roll out the ad at gas stations in Tam ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Gauge against the machine
McCain now agrees that inflating your tires saves gasoline |
Kate Sheppard |
06 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| John McCain and his campaign have been ribbing Barack Obama for his statement last week that if Americans made sure their tires were properly inflated it could save as much oil as would be found in offshore areas. The McCain team went so far as to hand out tire gauges at the Democratic candidates's events. Obama jabbed back yesterday, and now McCain in conceding the accuracy of his rival's statement. 'And could I mention that Sen. Obama a couple of days ago said ... |
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| Topics: advertising, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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McMeltdown
Keith Olbermann on McCain's campaign |
David Roberts |
06 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Brutal: See also Rachel Maddow's comments at about 3:25 in here: |
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| Topics: advertising, gas prices, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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The energy-ad arms race
Presidential candidates keep the energy ads a-comin' |
Kate Sheppard |
06 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| John McCain put out this new ad yesterday, 'Broken,' in which he's portrayed as the 'original maverick' and pledges to 'battle Big Oil.' (Someone might want to pass the message along to his donors.) Barack Obama responded with this new ad yesterday, challenging the premise that McCain has been a 'maverick' on energy and other issues: ' And today McCain issued another ad repeating the celebrity allegation (this time minus Britney and Paris) and alleging tha ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Kaine vs. Sebelius
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David Roberts |
06 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What Eve said -- and also the coal thing. |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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