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"We'll just earmark this hydrogen budget for our
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Hydrogen Politics |
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Who The Hell Do We Thank? |
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Here at the International
Clearinghouse for Hydrogen Commerce, we tend to look at things
from the viewpoint that pretty much everything that happens in the
world is a result of energy choices. Overwhelmingly bad energy choices. But we are not talking about energy choices that you make. We are talking about energy choices that are made for you by the powerful centralized energy corporations that have used their vast wealth to to usurp democratic principals to guide the strategic policy of formerly free countries, as well as to purchase the control of corrupt, tyrannical ones. This enables the highest profit from resource plundering with the bonus of non-accountability. This is nothing less than a war and a coup on what was the United States of America, the principles she was founded upon and her grossly unaware population. During the past eight years, it has changed the face of America in the eyes of the greater part of the world from friend to foe, creating a much more dangerous world where military and financial adventurism, corrupt media, national pride and terrorism can be manipulated in the shadows to establish inflated commodity prices and a vastly effective market instability designed to steal wealth away from virtually every assumed safe haven - from your mutual funds to your 401k to your life insurance to your savings account. The people doing this to you are of the same ilk as the oil corporations the government has allowed to despoil lands of people in Africa and South America to supply you with cheap gasoline for grossly oversized vehicles. They are of the same ilk as those in congress who concocted the Great Ethanol Fraud, a zero-sum game that, in concert with rising oil prices, drove food prices beyond reach of many of the world's poorest to reward political primary states, agricultural campaign donors and wealthy investors in a host of erupting companies now going bankrupt. Meanwhile, research and support for true renewable energy went begging. Companies with years of taxpayer funded investment, with promising technologies on the verge of fruition, went bankrupt or were acquired by foreign nations - or soon will be. This was our true flower. From
the vantage of our current precipitous and accelerating decline
into economic chaos, recession and likely depression, it is clear
that a terrible and catastrophic seed was planted long ago, when
corporations were first granted charter. A responsibility for the
well-being of the earth, upon which we humans live, was not
considered. A requirement for compassion and respect for human
beings was left out. The only mandate was profit, preferably
uncontrolled, unregulated profit (Enron). And this profit
was and is greatly enhanced by ignoring ethical concerns and
disastrous environmental, therefore anti-human, impacts. These
costs and consequences were and are brutally dumped on powerless
non-consumer populations or absorbed by consumer populations who
have been taught to accept them as a necessary part of economic
life. For the corporations, the only concern, the only goal, is
higher profit. Human beings have value as consumers of their
goods. But if they cannot consume, or if they get in the way of
profit, they are swept aside like spilled garbage. Fossil energy exploitation made America a
wealthy, modern and powerful nation. We utilized our own fossil
deposits to achieve this, creating modern postwar America with
little importation of oil. It was not until the middle 1960s, when
our cheap oil peaked, that our dependence on Middle Eastern oil
began in earnest. In much the same way that IBM viewed the
nescient PC, the expansion of renewable energy was denigrated and
regarded by centralized energy as a relatively insignificant but
easily managed threat. For many years, low crude and coal prices
presented an insurmountable barrier to wind power expansion. Then,
as turbines became more robust, Production Tax Credits were
allowed to pass to level the playing field between upstart wind
and established energy, but never were they permitted to extend
for the sufficiently long period that banks would find attractive
for financing the capital expenditure that would make wind a
potential competitor. |
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“There will be a revolution in this
country. |
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Renowned Trend Forcaster Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax
Rebellions in U.S. |
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The fight for the direction of the Democratic Party, and thus
Congress, has begun in earnest. Will the historic election
of Barack Obama herald real change? Or will it just be
business as usual for the oil and coal industries in sheep's
clothing?We're about to find out - and you can help Congress decide. Next week Democrats in Congress will make decisions on committee leadership. No committee is more important for potential action on energy and climate than the House Energy and Commerce Committee. For years, that committee has been controlled by 82 year old Representative John Dingell of Michigan, the biggest Democratic friend of the oil, auto and coal industries. This is a problem. You can help solve it. Representative Henry Waxman of California has announced his intention to challenge Dingell for the Chairmanship of this vital committee. Waxman, who is one of the most progressive members of Congress, would indeed represent real change. I'm asking you to contact your Democratic Representative and let them know that you support Henry Waxman as Chair of the Energy & Commerce Committee. If you live in a district represented by a Republican, or if your district just became Democratic, please contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi at AmericanVoices [at] mail.house.gov. There are many reasons to prefer Henry Waxman over John Dingell. Here are a few: - John Dingell was the top recipient of coal money in this most recent election. - Since 2000, John Dingell has received an amazing 33 times more from the oil and coal industries than Henry Waxman has. 89 percent of Congress is cleaner than John Dingell is. - On average, Dingell and his allies have received nearly six times as much money from Big Oil as those Democrats that support Waxman, and nine times as much money from King Coal. It's really important that we act on this today. The fossil fuel industry is already moving to support Dingell. We need to counter them right now. In short, this battle is between the future and the past of Congress, and the country. We need to win it, and yes, we can. Yours for a Separation of Oil & State, Steve Kretzmann, Executive Director PS - We really need all the support we can get right now. Every bit helps. Thanks so much for anything you can do right now. |
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"To date, we have had no
leadership capable of moving the world in a new direction. President Obama
can be this leader, he will be the catalyst for the dawn of the solar
revolution and the beginning of the transition to a truly renewable
economy." |
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"Democracy is not
working "We must end
the Age of Oil in our time." BIG OIL'S MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE |
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"[John
McCain thinks]
Americans are so stupid — so bloody stupid — that if you just show them wind
turbines in your Olympics ad they’ll actually think you showed up and voted
for such renewable power — when you didn’t." |
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McCain: Palin Most Knowledgeable Person on Energy
in United States of America!
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| In 2007, she stalled the Fire Island Wind Farm Project by placing a veto on $20 million of state support. Even though she later rescinded this decision, enabling the project to move ahead, she has vetoed a further $268 million in budget items this year, including other renewables projects; This same budget contributed $2 million towards a bizarre conference to “highlight arguments that global warming isn’t threatening the survival of polar bears.” In opposition to the recommendations of state biologists, she has also argued against listing the polar bear as endangered; Due to lack of financial support, several renewable energy projects in the state have been stalled; The Alaskan policy of distributing the state’s ‘oil royalties fund’ to residents, instead of ploughing it back into clean energy development, has led some commentators to suggest that any sort of large scale renewables infrastructure is doomed from the start. |
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WILL PALIN NEXT APPLY HER
NEW "OIL DEPENDENCE" FORMULA FOR |
| Governor Sarah Palin today signed legislation that will help Alaskans combat the high cost of energy. ...SB 4002 uses revenues generated from the state’s natural resources to provide a one-time special payment of $1,200 to every Alaskan eligible for the 2008 Permanent Fund dividend. The bill also raises by 50 percent the maximum amount of loans that bulk fuel bridge and bulk fuel revolving loan funds can make to communities and cooperatives. |
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Palin Cuts Money for Energy Research |
| Gwen Holdmann, the group’s director, said Tuesday the $500,000 in state funding was needed as a match for federal grant money. “It really cripples us in our ability to bring federal funding,” she said of the governor’s veto. Holdmann said she was hoping to use some of the funding to bring a top expert in geothermal energy to Alaska to help develop a research program in the field. She said she also applied for federal grants to study new technologies involving river current, tidal energy, and combined wind and diesel power systems. |
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Palin Kills Chugach Electric Wind Farm Funding |
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Palin vetoed $71.5
million in requested fund projects, including $20 million for a Chugach Electric Association wind farm. |
And Then There Was One
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With his choice of Sarah Palin — the
Alaska governor who has advocated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge and does not believe mankind is playing any role in climate change
— for vice president, John McCain
has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for
president to just another representative of big oil. Given the fact that Senator McCain deliberately avoided voting on all eight attempts to pass a bill extending the vital tax credits and production subsidies to expand our wind and solar industries, and given his support for lowering the gasoline tax in a reckless giveaway that would only promote more gasoline consumption and intensify our addiction to oil, and given his desire to make more oil-drilling, not innovation around renewable energy, the centerpiece of his energy policy — in an effort to mislead voters that support for drilling today would translate into lower prices at the pump today — McCain has forfeited any claim to be a green candidate. ...Palin’s nomination for vice president and her desire to allow drilling in the Alaskan wilderness “reminded me of a lunch I had three and half years ago with one of the Russian trade attachés,” global trade consultant Edward Goldberg said to me. “After much wine, this gentleman told me that his country was very pleased that the Bush administration wanted to drill in the Alaskan wilderness. In his opinion, the amount of product one could actually derive from there was negligible in terms of needs. However, it signified that the Bush administration was not planning to do anything to create alternative energy, which of course would threaten the economic growth of Russia.”
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State Will Sue Over Polar Bear Listing, Palin Says
Melting Arctic Shows Need for Climate Pact |
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'America's Outrageous War Economy!'
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"At a time when
unemployment is at a four-year high and the economy needs every stimulus
it can get, a rapid extension of the credit should be on any economic
priority list for Congress."
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NY ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO |
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Cuomo's Coalition of Twelve States, the District of Columbia, and the City of New York Sues EPA for Refusing to Adopt Pollution Controls, Violating Clean Air Act ~ Today's Action is the Latest Front in New York's Effort to Fight Global Warming NEW YORK, NY (August 25, 2008) - Attorney General Andrew
M. Cuomo today announced he is suing the federal Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for failing to adopt regulations that control emissions of
global warming pollution from oil refineries. Cuomo is leading a group of
twelve states, the District of Columbia, and the City of New York in a
suit that challenges the EPA's refusal to require new or renovated oil
refineries to install technologies that control global warming pollution,
in violation of the Clean Air Act. |
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WIND, SOLAR,
WAVE, GEOTHERMAL,
AND OTHER NEW CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THREATEN THE
FOSSIL AND
NUCLEAR MONOPOLY THAT OWNS MOST
SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN. |
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"[John MaCain
thinks] Americans are so stupid — so bloody stupid — that if you just
show them wind turbines in your Olympics ad they’ll actually think you
showed up and voted for such renewable power — when you didn’t." |
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ANOTHER BLACK DAY FOR AMERICA
“With today’s technology, we can
produce hydrogen for less than the cost of gasoline.… The technology to
create hydrogen cheaply has been around for quite some time. The challenge
is to get it to the fueling stations.” What these tax
credits are designed to do is to stimulate investments by many players in
solar and wind so these technologies can quickly move down the learning
curve and become competitive with coal and oil — which is why some people
are trying to block them. As Richard K. Lester, an energy-innovation
expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, notes, “The best
chance we have — perhaps the only chance” of addressing the combined
challenges of energy supply and demand, climate change and energy security
“is to accelerate the introduction of new technologies for energy supply
and use and deploy them on a very large scale.” REPUBLICANS NOW
TARGET THE LAST VESTIGES OF AMERICA'S WILDERNESS, PARKS AND COASTLINES FOR
OIL EXPLOITATION BY THEIR INTERNATIONAL MASTERS WHILE THEY STEADFASTLY
REFUSE TO ALLOW A TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE FUELS, EVEN AS U.S. CITIZENS AND
BUSINESS SLOWLY STRANGLE ON RISING GASOLINE AND DIESEL COSTS.
GM Posts $15.5 Billion Loss |
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| An urgent message from the League of Conservation Voters 7/17/08 |
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We're so deep in a hole, you'd think we'd stop drilling...
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For
months, the Committee has been investigating EPA's decision to prevent
California and other states from reducing greenhouse gas emissions from
motor vehicles and its decision to adopt new ozone air quality standards
weaker than those recommended by the agency's scientific experts.
"SHAMEFUL,
OUTRAGEOUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE!"
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"Your clothes -
give them to me now" |
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"We are in this situation because
of our dependence on traditional petroleum-based oil. The direction our
nation needs to go in, and where California is already headed, is toward
greater innovation in new technologies and new fuel choices for
consumers." |
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Shooting the Moon on Renewables
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BY ESTABLISHING THE
GREAT ETHANOL FRAUD, THE IDIOTIC BURNING OF PRECIOUS FOOD FOR FUEL, IN
PLACE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF REAL RENEWABLE ENERGY - UNTAPPED, ABUNDANT,
FREE ENERGY THAT WOULD THREATEN CENTRALIZED FOSSIL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY'S
STRANGLEHOLD ON THE WORLD - THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, AT THE BEHEST OF
ITS OIL MASTERS, HAS SET INTO MOTION AN ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EVIL SO
SOULLESS AND UNCONTROLLABLE THAT IT THREATENS TO DRIVE STRUGGLING HUMANITY
INTO A CHAOS THAT MAY RIVAL OR EXCEED THAT OF THE WORST OF THE
PREVIOUS CENTURY. - RDM |
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Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City
Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars THE GREAT ETHANOL FRAUD BEGINS TO CRUMBLE |
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Governor Rell Urges President, Congress to Tackle |
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Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced
she is urging President Bush and Congressional leaders to temporarily
waive the federal Renewable Fuel Standard and lift a 54-cents-per-gallon
tariff on imported ethanol. The Governor said these two steps could reduce
the pressure that families in Connecticut and across the nation are facing
from endless increases in energy prices and the costs of staple foods. Governor Rell also called on Congress and the President to pass a second, energy-related stimulus package to help families keep up with food and energy costs. “Connecticut residents and business owners, squeezed from one side by energy prices and on the other by food prices, are trapped in a vise,” Governor Rell said. “The pressure is relentless and mounting ever-higher. It is time for the federal government to take some strong, definitive action to address these issues.” The Governor noted in her letter that a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline currently costs an average of $3.787 in Connecticut. A month ago the average was $3.35; a year ago the average was $3.06. A dozen eggs costs around $3, while a gallon of milk runs about $4. A box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes costs $4.29 while a top round beef roast and chicken breasts are both priced at $4.99 a pound. “As unrelated as the cost of a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk might seem, these price increases actually have a common link: corn,” Governor Rell said. “The demand for ethanol – either as an additive to gasoline or as the primary component in fuels such as E85 – has increased sharply in recent years. Since most ethanol is made from corn, that demand has meant there is less of the crop for use as food for people and animals. Moreover, many farms are opting to switch from crops such as wheat to corn because of the higher price commanded by corn. “Every day the families of Connecticut – like their counterparts in every other state – face difficult decisions and diminishing choices,” the Governor said. “They are struggling to cope with the epic upward spiral of energy prices, struggling to avoid the worst effects of the current economic slump and struggling to make ends meet. Their struggles have been made all the more difficult because the prices of basic staples such as eggs, cereal, bread and milk have shot up by double digits even as more and more of our household budgets are consumed at the pump or burned to heat our homes.” Governor Rell recommended two specific actions to ease the demand pressure on corn prices:
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ASK A KID, THEN ASK AN ETHANOL ADVOCATE, |
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WALL STREET BIOFUEL PUSHES THE WORLD'S POOR TO THE BRINK |
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In Haiti, where three-quarters of the
population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically
malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of
patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically only consumed by the most
destitute. "It's salty and it has butter, and you don't know you're eating dirt," said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. "It makes your stomach quiet down." |
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"This is silent mass murder. |
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Gas Bills Ate Your Rebate! |
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"If we are to end
our dangerous reliance on foreign oil and create the green-collar jobs of
tomorrow, we have an obligation to find renewable energy sources." |