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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Petunia in the Mojave
10-1-06 by dugan Back from the dead. No, not just the bailout bill, but tax credits for wind and solar energy projects, which for months have been a pawn in the battles of dysfunctional…
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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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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…
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Everybody agrees….
8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — There was plenty of room for disagreement at the National Clean Energy Summit. Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made a pitch for the "clean coal" fantasy (possibly because…
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Google (energy) news
8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV –Amid a lot of familiar green rehetoric, Google made some real news today at the National Clean Energy Summit–which I should note is sponsored by Sen. Harry Reid of…
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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…
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Sandbox-style energy standoff
7-28-08 by dugan At first, the fight in the Senate over whether renewable energy tax credits should be extended for a few more years seemed like political Kabuki theater: Republican opponents in the Senate would…
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Shortage of Gas Price Protests
Gas Prices Fail to Push Most U.S. Drivers to Protest By Sue Doyle, THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES July 17, 2008 One worldwide group protests mayonnaise. Other people posed nude inside potholes for a…
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Bush wants west’s water
06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted,…
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‘Hot Fuel’ Adds To Pump Pain
‘Hot Fuel’ Adds To Pain At The Pump By Elizabeth Douglass, LOS ANGELES TIMES May 23, 2008 A survey shows that Californians could be overpaying as much as $3.4 million a day as heat makes…