Jerry Schiano, a fellow I met through 2GreenEnergy from Rhode Island, comments on a post I wrote criticizing president Trump’s policies on the environment, healthcare and public education writes: I can take eight years of this, can you?
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The Inevitable Results of Our War on Public Education
I’d love to shake the hand of the guy who made and installed this sign. Paul LePage, Maine’s two-term governor is best known for his utter disregard for the common man, as exhibited by this legendary quote: “If you want …
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Climate Change Poses a Threat To Our Civilization’s Protection Against Climate Change
I’m sure most readers are aware of the stronghold called the Global Seed Vault, built about a decade ago and maintained with international cooperation in the arctic permafrost to enable humankind to regrow about one million species and cultivars of …
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Quandary: The Oil Industry Is Both Important and Destructive
Re: my post on the subsidies for and taxation of the oil industry the other day, frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy opposionist writes: The oil industry is already America’s largest taxpayer and most valuable taxpayer…..Attempting to build into the tax system …
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Trump’s Impact on the U.S. Economy Has Lots of Interesting Turns and Twists
What happens when the U.S. elects a president whose sole economic platform is making rich people (and corporations) richer?
Renewable Energy: For Now, At Least, an Industry Driven by Regulation
Below is a picture I took yesterday at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual WindPower expo in Anaheim (just south of Los Angeles), CA, suggesting something very important about the renewable energy industry at this nascent point in its development: …
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American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Hosts WindPower 2017
I have a strange and wonderful emotional reaction whenever I attend the huge conferences for solar and wind. At yesterday’s ginormous WindPower 2017 event, for instance, I could feel my chest swelling with pride as I walked around the main …
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Subsidizing Oil Exploration/Extraction
In response to my recent piece calling for an end to subsidies for the oil companies, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: Actually, while the oil subsidies – like the renewable subsidies – are terribly structured, they are defensible. Right …
The Tragic Consequences of America’s Frittering Away Its Leadership Position in Renewable Energy
Donald Trump’s dwindling support base clings tight to the notion that the president’s policies will bring back jobs into the rust-belt, even though the spokespeople for the dinosaur industries (like coal) have consistently cautioned that this is impossible. At the …
Wondering Why the U.S. Government Subsidizes Oil, While Pushing for Renewable Energy Remains Controversial?
As suggested in the graphic here, the answer is, in a word: corruption. In addition to universal healthcare, the same case could be made for anything else that people generally want that doesn’t directly serve corporate interests: renewable energy, quality …
