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“We can’t wait” … The President Stands Up to Fossil Interests

December 14, 2011 by A Siegel
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President Barack Obama might finally have crystalized to a core message that, honestly, should have been core from the election through today.We cannot wait …- To address the health care inequities, costs, and shortfalls- To foster a more honest engagement between the financial community (Wall Street) and the citizenry (Main Street)- To... [read more]

Why Some Republicans are Delusional About Oil & Energy Policy

December 12, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 335 views
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Two Sides of a Coin In a recent video blog about energy politics, I stated that in my opinion each of the major political parties in the U.S. only gets half of the energy picture. Democrats tend to demonize oil usage, with many believing that we can shift to renewables for our energy needs. To be clear, we can — but not in the way they... [read more]

Will Energy Determine the 2012 Election?

November 8, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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A year from today Americans will know who will serve as President from 2013 to 2017. Even though $4 gasoline was still fresh in the minds of voters, energy played only a minor role in the outcome of the 2008 election, overshadowed by two wars and a crippling financial crisis. Will that be the case again in 2012, or will energy loom larger, propelled by its close connection with the economy? Several Republican candidates have already raised energy as a campaign issue, and the administration has repeatedly emphasized the linkages between energy, jobs and taxes. [read more]

A Filibreather For All Of Us

July 27, 2011 by A Siegel
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Monday afternoon, 25 Representatives stood to speak out against moves to devastate protections for America’s environment: from measures to open up the Grand Canyon for uranium miners to measures to eliminate monitoring of polluters. This two-hour call for sanity was a joint move between the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and... [read more]

Why Do Democrats Want Inexpensive Oil?

June 30, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 644 views
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It seems that nothing quite brings out the silliness in politicians like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). As you undoubtedly have now heard, the United States and the International Energy Agency are coordinating to release 60 million barrels of oil to the world markets. The U.S. portion of the release will be 30 million barrels... [read more]

The Left-Right Climate Trap

June 9, 2011 by Alex Trembath
with 137 views
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Out of Australia, a solid and succinct evaluation of the political difficulties of climate action:People on the left instinctively believe in communal action, the role of government and the efficacy of international agencies such as the UN. They were always going to believe in climate change; it's the sort of problem that can best be... [read more]

Democrats and Energy Policy

May 23, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 234 views
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An Energy Epiphany I have often thought that if all domestic oil production and refining ceased in this country for a month, we would see an energy epiphany in the U.S. the likes of which we have never seen. Such an event would really drive home our dependence on petroleum products. In fact, this essay started as an introduction to a... [read more]

Analysis Requested by Senate Democrats Highlights the Risks of Their Energy Proposals

May 16, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 94 views
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This essay highlights the reason I loathe politics. Here I present a case in which politicians present a partial story and withhold key findings in order to push a specific agenda. But their trump card is that if things don’t go as planned they can assign blame elsewhere. The media is complicit because they have simply lapped up the... [read more]

Senate Democrats' Agenda Aims to Invest in Energy Innovation

February 22, 2011 by Breakthrough Institute
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Last week, a group of Senate Democrat leaders unveiled their plan to build off of the innovation-centered budget proposal released by the President two weeks ago, including several important energy innovation investments. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced the proposal as an effort to simultaneously "create jobs, promote growth... [read more]

Key Democrats Say its Time for New Energy Policy After 2010 Reported the Warmest in History

January 13, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
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After a new report showed 2010 was tied for the hottest year on record, several key members within the U.S. Democratic party stated it was time for the country to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation. In its latest report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that global temperatures last year... [read more]

Clean Energy Financing: First Steps Towards Post-Partisan Effort

December 1, 2010 by WattHead Guest Contributor
with 768 views
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Originally published at Americans for Energy Leadership. Energy reform is headed quickly towards a hyper-partisan stalemate. As the Republican party takes control of the U.S. House, some advocates of a progressive energy agenda are calling for Congressional Democrats to regroup and “conduct guerrilla warfare” against the status quo. A... [read more]

Energy policy will change under GOP House

November 11, 2010 by Daniel Fine, Ph.D
with 3,499 views
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With the Republican Party's newly won control of the House of Representatives, national energy policy could be rolled back to 2005, with all legislative advances under a Democratic Party majority at risk. Republicans could adopt a dual-track strategy that attacks energy regulation through budget reductions of the Environmental Protection Agency that de-fund efforts to impose carbon emissions on industrial infrastructure, at a minimum coal-burning utilities and the gas and oil complex of extraction and refining. [read more]

Beware of Poll Predictions Based on Poorly Representative Samples

October 24, 2010 by Rod Adams
with 950 views
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I am going to take a moment of publisher privilege and write about a topic that is not specifically atomic, nuclear, or energy related. As I read about election predictions based on polling numbers, I am reminded of a story I learned during one of my statistics classes. We had just learned the mathematical formula for determining the... [read more]

With Seconds on the Clock, Democrats May Waste Last Chance for Clean Energy Win

June 30, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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With the final seconds ticking down on the Congressional clock, President Obama and Senate Democrats emerged from a White House summit with Republican moderates Tuesday still lacking any plan to score a last minute win for clean energy. Wasted opportunity Establishing a price (any price) on carbon pollution through a(n increasingly weak... [read more]

More tenacity needed in climate change debate

February 14, 2010 by WattHead Guest Contributor
with 138 views
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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told Americans last week to “get angry” about climate and clean energy legislation. Similarly, in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, we heard that he was angry and that American citizens are angry, too. The anger revolves around jobs. But Obama talked about more than just jobs. He reiterated... [read more]