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Dirtier Side of Obama Administration Energy Blueprint
Obama's new energy plan is needed, but the focus should be on efficiency and renewables so we can have a clean energy future, with clean air and clean water. America doesn't want the oil and gas industry's dirty energy future.[read more]
Obama Calls for Security Trust to Fund Energy Research
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Obama emphasized the need for research on alternative energy technologies and called for an energy security trust to fund such research, pulling $2 billion in royalties from oil and gas leases over 10 years.[read more]
Setting the Record Straight on Oil & Gas Leases
New, detailed analysis of last week's New York Times story on shale natural gas leasing by Jerry Simmons, executive director of the National Association of Royalty Owners, is up on the Energy In Depth web site. It's well worth the read. Main points - bearing in mind that Simmons' organization represents millions of mineral and royalty...[read more]
The Oil Industry for Dummies
Because apparently, this is a business that any dummy could run. Take Ed Markey's new bill, for instance:America's untapped oil "Big Oil is more interested in pumping up prices and pumping up their own profits rather than pumping more oil," said Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass), who has co-sponsored a bill to charge oil companies a fee for...[read more]
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“One real question, is how much energy did this "investment" produce?Another, related question, is what was the external cost of this investment.The answer to the first question can be found on the web page of the California Energy Commission.http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_capacity.html1533 Gigawatt-hr as of 2012.The second question, will be, as always, obscured ...”
“This reflects some of the Vehement/viceral/ One track minded attitude that I think I've noticed with some Renewables/GW enthusisats. I will use some humour to exaggeratingly illustrate the point. In a Top Secrete, High level SPANISH Government debate.."The Economy is bad, what tough choices do / MUST we, COURAGEOUSLY make to recover?"........Fund Solar Power, or Feed the ...”