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asked:


What if there was a vote to decide if $13.5 billion in tax breaks for oil companies should go into oil alternatives, like solar and wind? What would you want your Senator to do?

Well, as you probably guessed, there was such a vote. We needed 60 votes to prevail, and 59 of them were in. But John McCain ducked the vote.

As a result, instead of powering millions of homes with clean energy and building next-generation solar technology, we’re giving ExxonMobil and other companies billions in tax breaks at a time when they’re already making record profits.What say you?

Ilanit

asked:


What if there was a vote to decide if $13.5 billion in tax breaks for oil companies should go into oil alternatives, like solar and wind? What would you want your Senator to do?

Well, as you probably guessed, there was such a vote. We needed 60 votes to prevail, and 59 of them were in. But John McCain ducked the vote.

As a result, instead of powering millions of homes with clean energy and building next-generation solar technology, we’re giving ExxonMobil and other companies billions in tax breaks at a time when they’re already making record profits.What say you ?

REGINALD

fateridder asked:


Democrats (mostly) in Congress complain that the President doesn’t have a credible energy policy. I personally don’t know whether he does or not because the whole issue is far too complex for me .

But I feel pretty certain that Congress doesn’t have the knowledge to set an energy policy . Part of my certainty is based on having read an interview with a newly elected U.S. Representative , Ron Klein of Florida . Here is an excerpt from the Town Crier newpaper :

After such achievements as the Apollo moon missions and the Manhattan Project that unleashed the power of the atom, Klein said, anyone who doubts the United States can create powerful new alternative energy sources is selling the nation’s brainpower short. All that’s required is the will to do so, he said, holding up a letter-size sheet of paper to make his point.

“If you are telling me we can’t create a solar panel the size of that piece of paper to power every home in Wellington, I don’t believe it,” he said. “I think we can. I don’t mean tomorrow. But I mean over the next ten years. I think we can do it.”

Assuming that the Congressman meant only that one solar panel could power ONE home , rather than every home , ( Wellington has around 50,000 population by the way ) the misunderstanding of the amount of solar energy falling on a single sheet of paper is absolutely ludicrous . But , Rep. Klein won’t believe it if you tell him that . Granted that he is the only one I’ve heard make such a ridiculous statement , it would be interesting to know how many of our congress people or executive branch honchos , have enough knowledge of the physics of energy , the economics of energy and the diplomacy of energy to make a viable “energy policy” for the U.S.

Anyone agree ?

Haynes

Randall E asked:


“If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it…”
– Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.

“The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world”
– John Shuttleworth, founder of Mother Earth News.

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, Secretary General 1992 UN Earth Summit

“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into the Stone Age.”
– Stewart Brand

“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.”
– Pentti Linkola

“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental”
– David Foreman, founder of Earth First!

“If there is going to be electricity at all, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered”
– Gar Smith

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States…”
– Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

“Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.”
– John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. – Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion — guilt-free at last! — Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically **** their fellow human beings in the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth. — Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. — David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. — Pentti Linkola

If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other. — Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth – Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p. 22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world — John Shuttleworth

What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. — Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. — John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. — John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing….This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run. — Economist editorial

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight — David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. — Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS — Earth First! Newsletter

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. — David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. — Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. — Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.” — Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels. — Carl Amery

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby — Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem — Lamont Cole

Etta

peapatchisland asked:


Do you think it’s dumb and short-sighted for Obama to go after big oil with taxes? Just seems like the wrong group of interests to get pissed off at you. This cartel of oil has unlimited money supplies and huge influence on Capitol Hill. I’m sure they own a certain percentage of Washington, DC already.

If Obama was smart, he would be forcing the USA, if elected, to go totally solar, power-cell, wind, renewable, within 25 years and not the path of making oil semi-socialistic. Just think it’s a foolish step by him in order to force McCain to choose sides that might backfire on him years later.

ROBERT

¡??? asked:


…instead of using fossil fuels to generate electricity?

..for plug-in hybrid cars?

Victoria

Dick S asked:


Proven reserves of crude oil increase each year and global warming is a hoax the eco-terrorists have foisted on the people. We have coal and natural gas in abundance in this country, and we have not hardly tapped the wind, wave, and geothermal energy available to us. New safe nuclear technology is also available that could provide clean energy, even if global warming ever gets real. Wake up people, you are being scammed.

Tyler

McCain drives me Insane asked:


The 700 Billion, we are going to spend on Wall street gamblers, We could have invested in 350,000 wind turbines, More then enough to provide electricity for the whole country. Cheap, Clean, Safe American energy, and good jobs.

So what would do more to get the country going, A big public works project like that, or for Wall Streets Greed?

Sherry

Charlton Heston’s Ghost asked:


…CHG…

Robert

SadaamLiedPeopleDied asked:


As an engineer, I would say liquified or gasified coal is our best bet. We have a huge supply of it here in the U.S. and large advances in technology have lead to coal being as clean burning as natural gas.

Some other popular choices….

Wind technology – we don’t have the land area for it to completely replace oil, but I’d like to see it cover about 10% of U.S. energy demands.

Nuclear – Our best option next to coal, large cost if mistakes happen but they chances are pretty remote. I’d like to see about 30% of energy go to this

Hydro- we’re pretty much maxed out on this one

Solar – we need MUCH larger advances in this field before we can even consider it

Ethonol – Flat out terrible fuel. It costs more energy to produce it than you get out of it. It’s crazy to even consider it.

wind energy