The United States is the world’s largest producer of carbon emissions, and recent statements by President Bush and powerful business leaders indicate that they believe it is time for us to take responsibility for this, and reduce our emissions here at home. That is a significant step, but will ultimately not be enough if [...]
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Terra Rossa is looking for new energy solutions from a conservative perspective. Tell us your ideas and discuss the options already on the table - all thoughts are welcome.
The Terror-Free Oil Initiative is one such idea we came across. Why not use our power as consumers to increase our national security? The first [...]
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Last week Charles Krauthammer and the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins, two respected conservative thinkers, both wrote columns about their preferred solutions for improving America’s energy security.
I agree completely on the need - the urgency - to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. I’ve written here many [...]
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Ok. We’re all aware of the danger of being dependent on foreign oil from nations hostile to America (see my recent post here). As an article in today’s Wall Street Journal explains, denying our oil dollars to the worst of these - Iran and Venezuela - could actually reduce their [...]
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It started as a typical Monday morning. A group of my limousine liberal friends were sitting in Starbucks, sipping $6 lattes and sifting through the NY times society page complaining how big corporations are destroying the world. (Please not the tremendous irony of sitting in Starbucks and bitching about big corporations). Moments later a [...]
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Ben Lieberman over at the Heritage Foundation is criticizing Bush’s energy plan for not being market-based:
“The President should take a less Carteresque and more Reaganesque tone on energy. Unleashing the free market by eliminating restrictions on drilling for domestic oil and gas is a good start. Streamlining regulations that hamper everything from refinery expansions to [...]
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We have the energy policy fact sheet for tonight’s State of the Union right here. Let us know your thoughts.
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Hats off to the CEOs of GE, DuPont, BP America, and Alcoa! Yesterday, these heavy hitters, among others, came out in favor of a market-based system to cap carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. In his post below, Tucker Eskew calls this a tipping point in the climate change debate. This [...]
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Add CEOs of major U.S. companies including General Electric, Alcoa, DuPont, Caterpillar, Lehman Brothers and Duke Energy to the list of supporters for caps that cut carbon and markets that make money. They made their formal announcement yesterday in Washington, D.C.
I think this represents a tipping point in the debate [...]
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What role will energy policy play in Tuesday night’s speech? What are your predictions about what President Bush will say?
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America’s dependence on foreign oil is a threat to our national security. I expect President Bush to illustrate this anew next Tuesday. We’re sending oil dollars to despots who hate us and want to destroy our way of life, to oil barons who provide funding and safe harbor to terrorists who plot ways to deliver [...]
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Interesting article on possible method for improving energy efficiency of coal and substantially reducing polluting impact on the environment. Read More…
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In the early 70’s the sport of body building was made famous Lou Ferrigno and a young Austrian who would grow up to be Governor of California. Ferrigno rose to fame portraying the radioactive raging alter ego of Dr. Bruce Banner. The Incredible Hulk was a superhero who fought against injustice for the underdog wherever [...]
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The White House plans to lay out its policy on global warming in the State of the Union address, and everyone is speculating about what that policy will be - some media outlets have been saying that Bush will endorse mandatory carbon caps.
This story says otherwise, but we’ll have to wait and see. Stay [...]
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In his column in Monday’s Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby mocks the idea of a U.S. energy policy aimed at achieving energy security, calling it, among other things, a “chimera”¯ and “dumb objective.”¯ He bases his argument on two main points. The first is that eliminating Middle Eastern oil imports would not dry up [...]
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The November Election was categorized as an indictment of President Bush and his foreign policy. As Republicans were mercilessly pictured arm and arm with the President and hailed as the mongers that had gone to war for oil, there was one conservative Republican who got swept away in an unjust tide. Democrats complain about our [...]
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The announcement yesterday by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to create the world’s first Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which is projected to reduce motor vehicle emissions by at least 10% by 2020 and more than triple the size of the state’s renewable fuels market, is yet another sign that proactive policy on climate change is [...]
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It has been famously said that the stone age did not end because the world ran out of stone. It seems to me that this is a fairly obvious point, but one that is often overlooked, especially since it is valid to our world today. Many people would have you believe that we [...]
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A market for trading carbon emissions isnā€™t just a way for US corporations and energy companies to make money ā€“ so says the Billings (MT) Gazette.
Many farmers are already capitalizing on demand for alternative fuels such as ethanol.Ā These low-carbon energies are really a second crop for farmers ā€“ one for [...]
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Peak Energy has a fascinating post today about Terra Preta soil technology:
These are processes where you can have your Bio-fuels, Carbon sequestration and triple fertility too. ‘Terra Preta’ soils have great possibilities to revolutionize sustainable agriculture into a major CO2 sequestration strategy.
Ready the full post here.
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