10-20-08 by dugan Right after I finished the previous post, on hard evidence that green policies are solid job creators, I found the perfect illustration of how industry–especially the oil industry–tries to sabotage…
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Want Jobs? Go Green
10-20-08 by dugan The nasty state of the economy means that a lot of planned government programs may hit the chopping block. Environmentalists fear that green initiatives, including renewable power, will stall. But…
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Bailout’s bucks for polluters
10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail…
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Exxon’s new “Pal-in” high places
9-30-08 by dugan Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has opposed any federal declaration that polar bears are endangered, saying she checked the research and it backs up her denials of human-caused global warmin. But her "research"…
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Renewable energy update
9-26-08 by dugan Friday update: The House passed its version of the renewable energy tax credit, but it’s still a long shot that the Senate will accept all the changes: three bills instead of one,…
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Renewable energy credit fading
9-25-08 by dugan The House was supposed to take up a Senate tax bill today that would, among other things, extend a crucial renewable energy tax credit that will otherwise expire at the end of…
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OWD and “Black Gold” on CNBC
9-24-08 by dugan Yes, it’s hard to give up an episode of CSI, but take a look tonight at a CNBC investigative documentary, "Black Gold," airing at 9:30 Eastern (or whenever President Bush’s speech on…
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Drillers win a talking point
9-23-08 by dugan I get why Congress gave up today on renewing a federal ban on coastal drilling: It was that, or be accused of shutting down government for lack of a stopgap spending bill….
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Why General Motors fails
9-21-08 by dugan Coming out of the funk of a truly rotten cold, I sat upright when I saw quotes from the appearance by GM vice chairman Bob Lutz on the Colbert Report. If the…
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Energy bill? What energy bill?
9-17-08 by dugan The 290-page energy bill that the House passed last night would be important if it had a chance of becoming law. It doesn’t. Too bad, because aside from a halfhearted acquiescence to…
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My take on T. Boone’s Prop 10
by dugan 9-10-08 I was asked to share my analysis of T. Boone Pickens’ Prop 10 on the November California ballot with the California Legislature today. The legislature’s own analysis of Prop 10 was skeptical…
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Cap and trade, explained
8-27-08 by dugan There’s no question that tough, enforceable reductions of carbon emissions are the only way to reduce the threat of global warming. Or that the world is heading into a market-based "cap and…
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Talk is OK, action is way better
8-27-08 by dugan It’s interesting that Andrew Cuomo, one of the few political rock stars, is all but sitting out the Democratic Convention. Instead, he’s productively suing the pants off of government and energy companies…