If Van Jones Were President | Good…….
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The Economic Imperative for Clean Energy | American Progress…….
Immediate government investment is needed to jump start economic recovery and speed the arrival of an economy powered with clean and secure sources of energy. The U.S. cannot count on future economic growth unless the federal government moves ahead now with the important structural transformations necessary for a low-carbon economy.
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How It Works | Project Better Place…….
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Detroit’s Bait and Switch…….
Is the corporate media really working up a froth over the auto industry bailout plan because the CEO’s of the Big Three have pledged to work for a dollar a year. Seriously?!?
Big friggin’ whoop. I wanted those idiots out, like yesterday.
After all, this is the same stunted brain trust which decided to walk away from the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. Oh, and one of it’s elder statesmen, GM’s Bob Lutz, continues to claim global warming is “a total crock of shit”.
Hey big time media types, this is the real deal breaker, not the dollar a year PR stunt. Either Detroit agrees to only build plug-in hybrids and/or electric cars or there will be no money.
Why? Because paying Bob Lutz a dollar a year to deny reality, is still a gigantic waste of the tax payers money.
Add comment December 2nd, 2008
The Corporate Oligarchy is Begging for a Boot Ride…….
No one could have predicted this:
“These mortgages have been considered more safe and sound for portfolio lenders than many fixed rate mortgages,” David Schneider, home loan president of Washington Mutual, told federal regulators in early 2006. Two years later, WaMu became the largest bank failure in U.S. history.
Would lead to this:
JPMorgan Chase is laying off 3,400 Washington Mutual employees in Seattle, according to spokesman Tom Kelly. That’s more than 80 percent of the 4,300 people it employs in the city.
And this:
As it shrinks staff, JPMorgan will empty most of the leased space in downtown Seattle used by WaMu, the biggest occupant of downtown office property. It may even empty a big piece of its 2-year-old WaMu Center headquarters tower, now owned by JPMorgan.
That’s triple, trickle-down action!
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10% of All Vehicles in Ireland to be Electric Cars by 2020 | Gas 2.0…….
Now Ireland is laying plans to convert to electric vehicles.
This article claims that a third of Ireland’s carbon emissions come from vehicles. Here in Washington State over half of our carbon emissions are produced by the transportation sector.
Imagine what would happen if Washington State decided to embrace electric cars. The state would create jobs and increase revenue as the necessary infrastructure is put in place. Plus, the conversion to electric cars would reduce the state’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Irish government has announced radical plans to introduce more than 250,000 electric cars onto the nation’s roads by 2020, a staggering ten percent of the total vehicles in the country.
If the scheme is successful, Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI), the state energy agency, estimates an annual cut in CO2 emissions of around 350,000 tonnes. Transport currently accounts for more than a third of Ireland’s carbon emissions, higher than any other sector.
Add comment December 1st, 2008
How About It Gregoire?…….
Let’s see now.
California is gearing up to make the cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland the epicentre of an electric car revolution.
The plan to create the infrastructure required for a fully functioning electric vehicle society was announced just last week by each of the three cities’ mayors. The policies will provide incentives to employers to install EV chargers in their buildings, expedite battery changing facilities, install electrical outlets in all government buildings, promote the purchase of EVs, and improve local regulations and standards. The total cost of the program is expected to amount to around one billion dollars, and California’s government will be teaming up with the electric transportation company Better Place to install the required infrastructure.
Governor Ted Kulongosk wants to replace Oregon’s $1,500 hybrid tax credit with a $5,000 electric vehicle credit.
And what is Washington State doing to get its residents into electric cars?
As far as I can tell, a whole lot of nothing.
Add comment November 30th, 2008
Credibility Zero…….
Poor John McCain.
He watched his last chance at the Presidency go down the toilet.
His top campaign staff were shopping around their resumes before the first ballot was cast.
Even McCain saw the writing on the wall well before election day.
How else would one explain McCain’s announcement that he would not be attending his own victory party on November 2 due to space constraints. Huh?
Although a strong argument could be make that it sucks to be McCain right now, John should take some comfort in the fact that there was an even bigger loser this election season. Who was it? The corporate media, of course.
No matter what meta-narrative the corporate press pushed, the unwashed masses were not buying it this election cycle. Remember the inevitability of Rudy Giuliani? How about Hillary Clinton?
Oh, and what about all of the smears breathlessly repeated by the corporate media which failed to stick during the campaign?
Obama is exotic (read black) and somehow foreign. Foreign people with funny names can sometimes be terrorist. Obama knew a terrorist, so he must be one too.
Unswayed, the corporate media decided to double down on failure and laud McCain’s v.p. pick of the frightfully incompetent Sarah Pallin as the most politically cunning move executed during the whole presidential campaign.
Outside the media’s bubble, real voters were appalled.
Hillary supporters were furious that McCain would assume they would vote for any women regardless of her record, and Republicans were equally repelled by McCain’s willingness to put an unqualified idiot into the number two slot if it would focus some media attention on his dying campaign.
In short, instead of turning around McCain’s failing campaign as predicted by the talking heads, the Pallin pick was the begining of the end for McCain. Way to see that coming corporate spin meisters!
It has often been said that John McCain’s base is the media. This year proves it.
However, if McCain wants to stay in politics, it might be time to find some new peeps to bring him sprinkle donuts.
Add comment November 30th, 2008
Mr. Disaster (Have You Seen Me??)…….
Has anyone seen George Bush lately?
Remember, way back in a time far, far away, when the President of the United States would make public appearances, issue statements, and the American people would feel reassured during a crisis.
That’s not the case with George Bush. When W. shows his face, the people panic–and for good reason.
By now, most Americans would admit Bush has a knack for creating disasters. After all, he has quite an impressive track record: Iraq, Katrina, the Wall Street Meltdown, the foreclosure crisis, ect. Not to mention the melting polar ice caps, California’s year round wildfires, and his Administration’s over all assault on facts or anything scientific.
America has also sadly discovered that Bush may be a genius when it comes destroying value, but his talent quickly evaporates once he is tasked with mopping up the wreckage he created.
Maybe this is the reason Bush is not out selling the idea that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The economy just can’t take it.
Add comment November 25th, 2008
