I applaud President Obama's call for a comprehensive legislative solution to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil gusher is just the latest and most tragic reminder of the environmental, economic and human consequences of our addiction to oil and other dirty sources of energy.
The president is right to focus on stopping the spill and working to limit, to the degree possible, its impact on the Gulf ecosystem. But ultimately the only way to prevent this type of tragedy from happening again is to fundamentally change how we power our economy. Placing a limit on global warming pollution and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies is the only truly effective long-term solution to this crisis.
Now it is time for the Senate to act. In the midst of the greatest environmental disaster in our country's history, there is no excuse to do otherwise.
This post originally appeared at Al's Journal.
€18bn flushed down the baño
"Dead broke Spain can't afford to prop up renewables anymore...
Estimates put the investment in solar energy in Spain at €18bn - but the investment was predicated... on taxpayer subsidies... Incredibly, Spain pays more in subsidies for renewables than the total cost of energy production for the country. It leaves industry with bills 17 per cent higher than the EU average...
Spanish economist Professor Gabriel Calzada, at the University of Madrid estimated that each green job had cost the country $774,000.
Worse, a "green" job costs 2.2 jobs that might otherwise have been created... Industry, which can't afford to pay the higher fuel bills, simply moves elsewhere."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/spain_sustainability_scam/
The Senate really is just the place where good ideas go to die, isn't it? Every story, every subject, it's the Senate that's in the way. Maybe we should just disband it and transfer all its powers to the House of Representatives. The Senate just over-represents the under-educated states, anyway.
2. LED lighting in all homes and businesses.
3. Power saver/conditioners on all breaker boxes.
There, I just lowered the carbon footprint by 10% – 40% using existing technology. I will accept the Peace Prize whenever. Now excuse me while I go invest in some technology.
http://www.h2andyou.org/caseStudies_injection.asp
http://www.ecogeek.org/efficiency/3110-led-lighting-would-save-america-120-billion
http://www.powersavestore.com/
www.csdaley.com
If we didn't have climate change we wouldn't be here and that is a fact. A misguided group think their going to save the Earth while the kill the inhabitants in poorer countries using corn for ethanol to put in gasoline, why when there is abundant oil would you let people starve?
"In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. Sun and climate have been going in opposite directions."
http://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
Only the President and the military should be allowed to fly
I can't imagine an excuse that justifies the devastating environmental loss, and the total lack of co-operation from the federal government to actually CLEAN UP the Coast, but I can post articles and releases that will spread the word and hopefully move people in government to end this bureaucratic nightmare.
There are small businesses and regular "small" people who understand the need to CLEAN UP the Coast, can do it and who need the red tape to end! These are their homes and their coasts and they know how to 'get 'er done' (thanks Larry!) if they are not forced to waste their time convincing a regulator or being charged $30,000 to get a validation that may take 6 months.
I'm kidding, right? Nope. Maybe, you just need a little common sense. 60 days without paying attention to actually CLEANING something.
Here's a Headline: FEMALE-OWNED REMEDIATION FIRMS, WITH GULF SOLUTIONS STALLED BY BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE
We, acting as Americans together, can clean the Gulf Coast if the government gets out of the way. If the enviros stop spelling clean r-e-s-t-o-r-e. If the EPA will fast track solutions from small businesses. If the President says it should be so!
http://gulfcoastcleaning.blogspot.com/
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"As many as 546 million gallons of oil spilled into the Niger Delta over the last five decades, or nearly 11 million gallons a year," experts said, according the the newspaper.
But, of course, nobody in America cares because it happens in Africa. Shame on us.
While I'm thinking about it, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 9-11 attacks, the subprime meltdown, all may not have happened.
We would be so much farther down the road with electric rail systems, photovotaic cells powering the batteries in our cars, with the uninterrupted respect of the world. It would be a different place.
The mind boggles.
Mounting evidence shows disaster was deliberately contrived either through conscious negligence or outright sabotage and is being allowed to worsen
States Need To Launch Criminal Investigation Into BP, Federal Government’s Role In Oil Spill
http://www.prisonplanet.com/states-need-to-launch-criminal-investigation-into-bp-federal-governments-role-in-oil-spill.html