Joe Biden's Environmental Record

Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate, has earned an 83 percent lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters during his 35 years representing Delaware in the U.S. Senate, voting fairly consistently with environmentalists and the mainstream of his party. In 2007, while running for president, he said "energy security" was his top priority, and argued that he was well-suited to deal with the challenge thanks to years of experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he now chairs. Biden is also a big booster of biofuels.

Quotable quote:

"I personally believe that the single most important step we can take to resume a leadership role in international climate-change efforts would be to make real progress toward a domestic emissions-reduction regime. For too long we have abdicated the responsibility to reduce our own emissions, the largest single source of the problem we face today. We have the world's largest economy, with the highest per-capita emissions. Rather than leading by example, we have retreated from international negotiations."

-- Jan. 30, 2007, in a statement given before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

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Comments

[Dan1967]

McCain will be 72 years old this Friday and his policies are the same policies as Bush. Do you want 4 more years of the same old policies that have our country in the mess that it is in now?

McCain is for NAFTA, and Obama is against NAFTA. Barack Obama will keep jobs in our country and he will fight for the rights of American workers.

McCain owns 7 houses and he will give tax breaks only to the richest of Americans who make over 200,000 per year. Barack Obama will give tax breaks to the middle class and the poor.

Will McCain have a military draft if he is elected President? He can't have a 100 year war without a military draft.

The Republicans are the party of the rich and the rich oil companies. The Democrats are the party of the people. Get to the polls in November and vote for Barack Obama and lets get a win for the people!

VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA AND LETS GET A DEMOCRAT WIN IN NOVEMBER!

[thereigoagain]

CELEBS GO GREEN!!

http://www.cracked.com/article_16579_7-most-retarded-ways-celebrities-have-tried-go-green.html

[gobarackgo]

Joe Biden: FIGHTING FOR CHANGE!

[OldKnute]

Go JOE GO!

Look,, we have one resource right here in America that could supply the world with all the Bio-Fuel we need. Known for centuries to the American Indians as a High Protein food source.

The Sun Choke or Jerusalem artichoke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke

The comparative alcohol yield is Corn 200 gallons per acre. The Sun Choke 1700 to 1800 gallons.

Joe is very right on the WIN, WIN approach with Clean Coal to.

Hello people! Coal Oil and Kerosene have been around for 150 years. They compare favorably with modern Diesel fuels. High boiling point, 18,000 BTU per pound.

Available right NOW,,, today!!!

Bio-Remediation of Coal burning power plants is REAL,, with algae, transported and processed as a liquid, easy harvest and to move to processing and can source plastics, OIL, medicines, sulfurs for synthetic rubber, fish food, cattle feeds.

Wind and Solar are already progressing on a HUGE scale. Power Companies are leasing roofs as we speak,,, right in the Cities and Suburbs where the power is most needed.

JOBS,,, People, GREEN JOBS and Businesses.

Joe is telling you the TRUTH. We can THINK our way out of this mess and we can do it WHILE recovering from this horrible economic debacle of BUSH"s failed policies.

We need to BUILD,, to creat NEW JOBS and the GREEN business world is not dominated by a HUGE special interest group like BIG OIL.

FREEDOM.

Go Joe GO!

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[KillTheMessenger]

1 barrel of oil = 1000kWh of electricity.

1 acre = 4046m^4 area which can produce 80kW of continuous equivalent (not peak!) solar electricity from today's solar panels. Multiply with 24*365 and you get 700 000kWh/year, i.e. the equivalent of 700 barrels of oil a year for every acre of solar panels!

700 barrels of oil equal roughly 24,000 gallons of useful fuel distillates.

Shelve your artichokes, Knut. Like every other biofuel they are a total loser.

[research]

The only Biofuels we should use are agricultural waste and perhaps Kudzu. Even then we have to make sure the soil is not depleted further by the removal of this organic material from the fields.

[research]

Bio-remediation of Coal Mining is IMPOSSIBLE. Mountain top removal and valleys filled with the Rubble are an ecological disaster. Water leaches the heavy metals out of the vastly greater surface area of the rubble piles, contaminating the water.

Creating Liquid fuels from coal is a last resort after we have installed all the wind and solar we can use.

[Darkdonnie]

Wind and solar after nuclear!

[Swerinjer]

83 percent over 35 years is pretty damn good.

[riverhouse]

Anyone who doesn't want to nuke the world is ahead of the gop nominee.

[darthdarcy]

You got that right..!

[OldKnute]

LOOK,, PLEASE.

Go back and read up on the Neo-CON extremists. They are all OIL FED and got their start in the late 50s, their fathers to oppose the new deal of Roosevelt.

All of them, Fallwell, Dobson, Rumsfeld, Nixon, Cheney, Robertson, Bush Jr, Bush 41, most with direct ties to the Eugenics Society that gave rise to Hitters ilk, with a pseudo sciences that sees all people of color as SUB HUMAN.

Their combined opposition of these new GREEN pursuits is based on the hatreds of what was in the 60s called the counter Culture. To these Neo-Con extremist fringe, Alternatives to Coal and OIL are direct attacks on their base of power. OIL and OIL Producers.

Don"t take my word for one darn thing!

LOOK UP and READ.
Eugenics Society. Prescott Bush, Adolph Hitler, McCarthyism. Richard Nixon.

In the mean time,, the Hippies were not wrong. Alternatives are REAL and can be a path to energy independence. In an odd way we should be happy about the Excesses of the Bush administration,, if it were not for these BUSH wars for OIL,, the public would not be aware of any of this.

Bush and his Neo-CON Cronies have driven a stake in the heart of the Vampirism of,,,, Business as Usual,,, OIL dependencies.

So we see. Now we see. NOW WE SEE!!

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[Gabrielle]

The MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE of the day....
I am very pleased to see that Biden is so GREEN....

The OBAMA / BIDEN TICKET surely seems to be a good one !!!!

Let's hope that the e vil machine on the other side will not distroy the team.

The Audacity of Hope.....

[Swerinjer]

What's stronger, hate or hope? Hate. We should use hate on the left more IMO. We should persecute authoritarians. We should intimidate counter protesters. We should bully others and work to seize power for its own sake. We should aim to sector and destroy the republican party, not be inclusive.

[OldKnute]

Aww,,, The Neo-Cons have already don that to the Republican Party with their Fanatical Extremism and duping God Fearing Folks to back them.

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[KillTheMessenger]

Looks like you might want to take on a job as a warden in a political jail of a totalitarian state. But you have to move quickly before the hate and abuse model goes out of favor everywhere in the world.

[degenerate1991]

Go work for Stalin, just for irony, join the 4th International (the origin of the neocons).

[mergina]

WHAT ARE YOU PLANS? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? HOW SOON ARE YOU DOING TO DO IT? THIS IS A CRISIS, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT. A CRISIS THAT NEEDS ACTION NOW,

[Sumocat]

All you have to do is click-through to read the list of bills he's sponsored and initiatives he's supported. I wouldn't call him an environmental revolutionary, but his record shows strong incremental steps and actual progress in the right direction.

[KillTheMessenger]

Well, for one thing Joe Biden does not have to go back to fifth grade to learn the countries in Europe like John McCain...

:-)