Duke Brooks writes on Independent Vermont senator Citizens United opponent Bernie Sanders as follows: Sanders is, of course, not an independent. He is, IN FACT, a self-described socialist…. The opposition to Citizens United (granting corporations the right to spend as much …
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I really can’t understand why more people, regardless of their political leanings, aren’t calling for the resignation of U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). Haven’t his antics gone far past the point of our normal political theater? Inhofe is in office …
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When I wrote this piece yesterday by Inside Climate News’ Maria Gallucci, I had no idea that just a few hours later, a friend would send me this article by the same author, in which we can see how nasty …
Guest blogger Brian McGowan sent me this nauseating piece on the entrenchment of the oil and coal companies. As we’ve noted often here, one of the leading drivers of environmentalism in the US is the military. This carries with it …
Frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: Is government intervention the way to change the hearts and minds of the consumers of energy? Look at prohibition of alcohol. See the NYT article that was published today. This is a case study that …
As we pay our respects to America’s fallen soldiers this Memorial Day, let’s take a moment and remember what put so many of them in harm’s way in the first place: our dependence on oil. While we’re at it, let’s …
Duke Brooks (old friend from school forty years ago) comments on my piece about the Koch brothers’ sponsorship of PBS’s NOVA: “I have heard that the Koch brothers speak very highly of you, by the way.” Ha! You’re kidding, of …
The reader who asked me about this article on renewable energy from RealClearScience poses this follow-up: So the article didn’t stress the importance of a “level playing field” which I understand is of major importance. So, your overall impression is that …
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The PBS special “Electric Nation” is a reasonably fair-minded and certainly non-hysterical treatment of the various modes of how we in the U.S. generate electricity. Personally, had I written the show, I would have been quite a bit more hysterical, …
Germany has installed enough photovoltaics that, at this point, coal-fired power plants are beginning to become unprofitable. This is driven by a combination of factors, e.g., that coal isn’t asked to provide power at the peak of the day, when …
