Archive for 'Energy Independence' Category
Was Perry’s “jobs plan” really only his “energy policy”? No one seems to know. And with good reason.
On Friday, the Perry campaign released a copy of the candidate’s “Jobs Plan”… or did he? No one seems to be able to agree on that one simple point. The Perry website (no link. You know where) still refers to it as a “plan to create 1.2 million jobs”. Fox News Sunday yesterday referred to it as his [...]
EARLY EDITION: Perry’s “Jobs” Plan by the numbers. I hope you like oil.
EARLY EDITION Rick Perry finally released his “Energizing American Jobs and Security” plan Friday (click here to download from me w/o having to give the Perry campaign your email address). 40 pages long (plus a cover page), Perry’s “jobs” plan is focused ENTIRELY on “energy” production. Ditto when it comes to “security”. In fact, Perry’s plan is SO singularly [...]
ACTION ALERT: 5,000 SIGNATURES for “Green Jobs Tomorrow Fast and Cheap”.
ACTION ALERT The White House announced on September 1st that they “will consider any petition that gets 5,000 signatures”. So I dashed off the following petition: Green jobs TOMORROW, fast & cheap. Here’s how. The fiction that “tax cuts create jobs” needs to be put to bed once and for all. After ten years of [...]
Sen. Kyl defends oil subsidies on grounds it’s preferable to extortion.
On Fox “news” Sunday yesterday, their guest, Senator Jon Kyl, was asked if he supported the Democrats’ proposal to “end oil subsidies to companies earning more than a Billion dollars in profit”? Kyl opposed the idea and defended his position on the grounds that so long as we hand over the money, nobody gets hurt. You think [...]
$4 gas: The problem is not Supply.
Before Air Force legend Chuck Yeager broke the “sound barrier” in 1947, people believed that it just couldn’t be done. Many (many) died trying, and the conclusion was that “eventually you reach a point where the air just can’t move out of the way fast enough”. The pilot, it was believed, eventually flies into a [...]
Obama says “Get serious” about oil with energy plan that’s anything but.
On Wednesday, President Obama delivered his much anticipated Energy Policy speech, telling listeners that it was time to ‘get serious’ about our dependence on foreign oil. So, just what is the Obama Administration’s idea of “getting serious”? Reducing our current “11 million barrels a day” of oil imports “by one-third” by 2025. I don’t know about [...]
Japan, Iraq, gas prices, and other disasters
After such a convoluted week, this weeks’ Op/Ed may seem a bit convoluted as well, so bear with me. I’ll do my best to tie everything in. After suffering one of the worst earthquakes in history, followed by a massive tsunami that may have caused more death & destruction than the quake itself, Japan’s worst [...]
Moral Imperatives
This past week saw the passage of two historic pieces of legislation: the repeal on the ban on openly gay people serving in the military (aka: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – DADT), and extension/expansion of the 2002 Bush Tax Cuts. But just because these bills have now passed, doesn’t mean there isn’t still work to [...]
Name ONE thing the Tea Party stands for that helps People more than Corporations
Last Saturday was Glenn Beck’s “I Have a Scheme” rally (credit to Wonkette for the pun). Though it was dubbed “not a political rally”, no question that the 99% white crowd consisted almost entirely of Tea Party teanuts with politics on their mind. The theme of the rally was “Restoring Honor”. Restoring honor? This is [...]
Is BP preparing to reduce presense in Gulf as soon as well is killed?
Last May, barely a month after the “Deepwater Horizon” exploded off the coast of Louisiana, Right Wing cranks were already dismissing the expected environmental impact of the “spill” (see my video: “Where’s the oil?”). Now that the well has been capped (but not plugged or killed) and all that toxic dispersant has reduced the appearance [...]
If I Were President. The mistakes Obama is making.
“If I were President…”. How many conversations have started like that? The other day, my mother… whom agrees with me politically… asked if I thought President Obama was doing a good job. There is a mood in the country (myself included) that is frustrated that President Obama doesn’t seem to “get it” on a range [...]
How to fix everything: The oil leak, the Gaza blockade, unemployment
Why is it that for every dumb problem, there is an overly complex & doomed to failure “solution”? The Gulf of Mexico is quickly becoming choked with thick brown oil sludge as “fix” after “fix” fails miserably. As if things weren’t bad enough for Israel, last weeks “siege” of a cargo ship filled with “humanitarian [...]
