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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT -- Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing.  However this is far from the truth.  True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . . more
House Passes Energy Bill
by Ethan G.
views: 70 | rating: 7.8 | comments: 21
September 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT -- The house passed an energy bill last night: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/09/17.php#21306.  I don't know all the details, but I know that it allows offshore drilling, extends renewable energy . . . more
May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT -- Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article  in Nature .   Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . . more
June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT -- The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act.  Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . . more
June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT -- Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ).  Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . . more
May 18, 2008 10:08 PM EDT -- With oil prices hitting another record, this time $128 a barrel, a voracious energy appetite worldwide, and a faltering economy, the demand is likely to grow to take any steps necessary to get extra energy, . . . more
August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT -- Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before.  However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . . more
Oil Prices Soar: What Next?
by Ethan G.
views: 156 | rating: 8.8 | comments: 17
March 12, 2008 08:13 PM EDT -- **I posted this three weeks ago but didn't post it to my "groups" because I didn't realize that the way to do so had changed.  So I am re-posting. With oil prices reaching . . . more
August 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT -- Off-shore drilling is a stunt! The perceived need for off-shore drilling is a stunt designed to make it look as if McCain was making efforts to lower oil prices. Oil companies have until now rarely even . . . more
September 13, 2008 01:33 AM EDT -- I just want to share observations I made while watching coverage of Hurricane Ike.  Friday afternoon, September 12, 2008, and Ike is still several hours offshore, but gas price rumors started flying . . . more
July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT -- Due to galloping prices, instability in the Middle East, and environmental dangers, energy is a huge issue in the presidential campaign.  So what are McCain and Obama's positions and how effective . . . more
July 13, 2007 10:26 AM EDT -- Cape Wind, a 25 square mile off-shore industrial wind plant proposed for the Nantucket Sound, claims it would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, which places our economy and national security . . . more
 
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