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Tracking Presidential Candidates on Energy No Easy Task
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 CommentYou can't tell the players without a score card.
No one knows that better than anyone trying to track the presidential candidates' positions on global warming. The League of Conservation Voters is trying to keep up to date with a quick reference chart on candidates' ever evolving platforms on climate change and energy.
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Energy Prices Are a Burden but Not Shared Equally
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment (1)One great mystery of the energy price run-up is why the U.S. economy has continued to chug along unperturbed, when three decades ago it was brought to a near standstill by oil shocks. Many commentators, including my colleague James Pethokoukis, point out that we are more efficient than we were in the 1970s, and perhaps stagflation wasn't about the Arab embargo after all.
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U.S. Renewable Energy: More Burned Timber Than Wind and Solar
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment"Renewable energy" means wind turbines on the prairie or solar panels on urban rooftops, right? Well, yes, but better add to the list the burning of wood and wood byproducts in the furnaces of pulp and paper mills. That is the nation's largest source of renewable energy aside from the massive hydroelectric dams that, because of their impact on river ecosystems, are not environmentalists' favorite choice for power.
Take out wood burning and hydroelectric, and renewable energy's share of the U.S. energy mix falls from the low 7 percent we recently charted to less than 2 percent. Here are a few things to consider about wood burning:
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Rising Gas Prices Hit Veterans Especially Hard
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment (1)Remember 1978?
Pete Rose smashed his 3,000th hit. The head-pounding Saturday Night Fever soundtrack dominated the charts. Back-to-back films that would sweep the Academy Awards, The Deer Hunter and Coming Home, explored soldiers' tormented return from an unpopular war. And gasoline cost 67 cents a gallon.
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Someone's Apologizing for Sorry Fuel Economy but Not Automakers
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment (4)If you wonder why it's so hard to get beyond oil, consider the Bush administration official who was forced to apologize for urging his agency's employees to consider buying fuel-efficient cars.
Yes, to make this rather obvious suggestion to help reduce oil dependence is to generate a political firestorm. That's because—you guessed it!—not one of the cars on the gas-saving list was made in the U.S.A.
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