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“Drill baby drill” isn’t an energy policy, it’s more cultural resentment

On March 5, 2012 By

“Energy independence” has been the Republican energy policy since 1974-

Americans have a bad case of Alzheimer’s when it come to knowledge or remembrance of energy policy.  Politicians usually give them a couple shots of rhetorical whiskey to make their memory even worse.  This is my effort to help folks remember.

Gasoline prices spiked in the United States for the first […]

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Paul Krugman: An Affordable Salvation

On May 4, 2009 By

Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics says we can afford a cap and trade policy on carbon emissions-

An Affordable Salvation by Paul Krugman. New York Times op ed

Congress is debating the climate change bill right now. Cap and trade is a market based method of controlling carbon emissions. That means “free market” […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey