Green Options » Joe Biden http://greenoptions.com/tag/joe-biden Posts tagged 'Joe Biden' Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Foot-In-Mouth Disease Reigns: Biden Reveals Fisker’s Future Business Plans http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/foot-in-mouth-disease-reigns-biden-reveals-fiskers-future-business-plans/ http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/foot-in-mouth-disease-reigns-biden-reveals-fiskers-future-business-plans/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:30:42 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/foot-in-mouth-disease-reigns-biden-reveals-fiskers-future-business-plans/ Swine Flu’s got nothing on our Vice President’s case of Foot-in-Mouth disease.

If only there was a vaccine.

Joe Biden is well-known for his goofball status of saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time in, what we have to assume, is a genetic predisposition to unwittedness.

Take, for instance, yesterday’s announcement that Fisker Automotive would be purchasing a shuttered Delaware GM plant for the future production of Fisker’s upcoming Project Nina plug-in hybrid—the more reasonably priced sister car of Fisker’s flagship $80,000 Karma.

During that announcement Biden—who’s home state is Delaware—waxed on about how the plant will bring jobs back to the area and is exactly what we need to get our manufacturing sector back on line. But he just couldn’t hold himself back at the end of his speech, saying “imagine when this factory, when the floor we’re standing on right now is making 100,000 plug-in hybrid sedans, coupes and crossovers every single year.”

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/foot-in-mouth-disease-reigns-biden-reveals-fiskers-future-business-plans/feed/ Biden to Announce Fisker Will Build Plug-Ins at Old Delaware GM Plant http://gas2.org/2009/10/26/biden-to-announce-fisker-will-build-plug-ins-at-old-delaware-gm-plant/ http://gas2.org/2009/10/26/biden-to-announce-fisker-will-build-plug-ins-at-old-delaware-gm-plant/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:48 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/10/26/biden-to-announce-fisker-will-build-plug-ins-at-old-delaware-gm-plant/

Last week, Fisker Automotive co-founder and CEO, Henrik Fisker, said that his company would very shortly be announcing where project Nina—the company’s upcoming $48,000 plug-in hybrid—would be built. The statement led to all sorts of rumors, but speculation had been growing that the chosen manufacturing spot was a closed GM plant in Delaware.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/10/26/biden-to-announce-fisker-will-build-plug-ins-at-old-delaware-gm-plant/feed/ Is Social Security “Windfall” Penalty Fair to Labor? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/09/07/is-social-security-windfall-penalty-fair-to-labor/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/09/07/is-social-security-windfall-penalty-fair-to-labor/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:24:27 +0000 Fred Etcheverry http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/09/07/is-social-security-windfall-penalty-fair-to-labor/

The Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT) cites the case of a widowed public school teacher that retired with a $900 monthly pension. She would have been eligible to receive $600 survivor benefits based on her husband’s Social Security contribution, but the windfall elimination provision (WEP) eliminated all of her survivor benefits. What is WEP?

The Reagan administration believed that reducing taxes would boost the economy. According to this “supply side” economic theory, less tax meant more profits, which would be plowed back into in to the private sector creating jobs and goods. The theory didn’t work and the deficit soared.

The administration looked for “revenue enhancements” that wouldn’t look like taxes (at least not taxes on business) to buy time for its theory to work. Social Security became a target of this quest. Especially, Social Security benefits received by public employees.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/09/07/is-social-security-windfall-penalty-fair-to-labor/feed/ Environmental Defense Fund: Less Carbon, More Jobs in the New Green Economy http://sustainablog.org/2009/03/02/environmental-defense-fund-less-carbon-more-jobs-in-the-new-green-economy/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/03/02/environmental-defense-fund-less-carbon-more-jobs-in-the-new-green-economy/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:39:54 +0000 edfblog http://sustainablog.org/2009/03/02/environmental-defense-fund-less-carbon-more-jobs-in-the-new-green-economy/ Less Carbon, More Jobs

One bright spot on the dark economic horizon is the number of companies across the U.S. poised for growth under a cap on carbon. EDF president Fred Krupp joined Vice President Joe Biden Friday in Philadelphia for the first meeting of Biden’s task force on middle class jobs.

At the meeting we unveiled our new interactive map highlighting more than 1,200 companies in coal country, the rust belt and other manufacturing regions. These companies all stand to benefit from the demand for clean energy technologies created by a cap on global warming pollution.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/03/02/environmental-defense-fund-less-carbon-more-jobs-in-the-new-green-economy/feed/ Wolves in Green Fleece: Are “Clean Coal” Ads a Scam? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/01/12/wolves-in-green-fleece-are-%e2%80%9cclean-coal%e2%80%9d-ads-a-scam/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/01/12/wolves-in-green-fleece-are-%e2%80%9cclean-coal%e2%80%9d-ads-a-scam/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:00:27 +0000 Fred Etcheverry http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/01/12/wolves-in-green-fleece-are-%e2%80%9cclean-coal%e2%80%9d-ads-a-scam/ Coal Plany

Corporate image ads are scattered around political news. They’re often masked as green tech, but their pitch more often advances corporate self-interest. We might dismiss them as hype, but they often succeed in pulling the wool over the public’s eyes.

As the news reports a fly ash (burned coal) spill in Tennessee that may be the greatest environmental catastrophe, the coal industry continues to pitch “Clean Coal.” During the presidential campaigns, both Obama and McCain supported clean coal, as do most of the Democratic and Republican representatives.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/01/12/wolves-in-green-fleece-are-%e2%80%9cclean-coal%e2%80%9d-ads-a-scam/feed/ Begin to Focus Attention Here: Barack Obama as President http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/27/begin-to-focus-your-attention-here-barack-obama-as-president/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/27/begin-to-focus-your-attention-here-barack-obama-as-president/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:50 +0000 Meg Hamill http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/27/begin-to-focus-your-attention-here-barack-obama-as-president/ I got an e-mail today from an unknown author that is worth passing on.  Parts of it are copied here, alongside my own personal thoughts.

I don’t know how much you know about the Law of Attraction or if you’ve ever heard of it. But surely you’ve heard of the phrase, ‘What you resist, persists.’ The more we don’t want something, the more it finds us. For example - the more we resist forming relationships with a certain type of person in our lives, the more we attract that same kind of relationship over and over again.  The more we resisted President Bush, the more he stayed in office.  I truly believe that the reason he won two terms as President is because everyone from all sides was so intently focused on him– Democrats with negative energy and Republicans with positive energy.

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/27/begin-to-focus-your-attention-here-barack-obama-as-president/feed/ Election Countdown: Obama or McCain For A Green Economy? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/21/election-countdown-obama-or-mccain-for-a-green-economy/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/21/election-countdown-obama-or-mccain-for-a-green-economy/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:27:11 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/21/election-countdown-obama-or-mccain-for-a-green-economy/ With fourteen days left until the U.S. presidential election, the heat is on. As much as all eyes are on the candidates, everybody’s pulse is on the economy. People all over America are wondering who will better serve the U.S. Economy and bring it to where it needs to be. What are the candidates saying?

John McCain says that Barack Obama’s tax policy is not conducive to building a strong economy. Obama says he wants to spread the wealth around. Joe Biden calls it “patriotic” for the wealthy to pay taxes, Joe The Plumber calls that socialism.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/21/election-countdown-obama-or-mccain-for-a-green-economy/feed/ Another Inconvenient Truth: Are We Too Divided to Close the Ideological Gap? http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/16/another-inconvenient-truth-are-we-too-divided-to-close-the-idealogoical-gap/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/16/another-inconvenient-truth-are-we-too-divided-to-close-the-idealogoical-gap/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:16 +0000 Adam Williams http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/16/another-inconvenient-truth-are-we-too-divided-to-close-the-idealogoical-gap/ Some days my hope wavers that this polarized American society can get anywhere meaningful. The communication gap is so wide and prickly. That goes for environmental issues, political ones, cultural ones and any other kinds of ones. Sometimes it just seems hopeless to me. Or at least very fatiguing.

Consider my most recent sustainablog post — NASA Maps Global CO2 Patterns; Produces More Science for Nonbelievers to Dispute.

I showed some exasperation in that post, too. I wondered how science, a system based on factual discovery as means of proving (or disproving) a hypothesis, is so controversial as it relates to environmental matters. I wondered — and continue to wonder — how two people can look at facts of science and pick and choose what to believe and then vehemently disagree with each other.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/16/another-inconvenient-truth-are-we-too-divided-to-close-the-idealogoical-gap/feed/ $700 Billion Bailout Includes Tax Credits For Renewable Energy Industries http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/700-billion-bailout-includes-tax-credits-for-renewable-energy-industries/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/700-billion-bailout-includes-tax-credits-for-renewable-energy-industries/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:18:40 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/700-billion-bailout-includes-tax-credits-for-renewable-energy-industries/ Given the hue and cry that has been unleashed in America with regard to the bailout, there is finally good news for the renewable energy industry. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, passed by the House of Representatives with a vote of 263 to 171, and signed into law by President George Bush immediately afterwards, extends investment and production tax credits for the wind and solar industries. The extensions will be partly paid for by a change in the tax code for the oil and gas industry.

>>More on renewable energy tax credits in Congress

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/700-billion-bailout-includes-tax-credits-for-renewable-energy-industries/feed/ Sarah Palin on Climate Change: The Causes Don’t Matter http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:15:29 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/ When asked about climate change at the vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin said, “I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?”

sarah palin and her many collegesGenerally speaking, if we don’t know what the cause of a given problem is, but we know there is indeed a problem, how do we devise a strategy capable of adequately addressing it? Or, in the words of Gov. Palin, “…how are we going to get there to positively affect the impact” (whatever that means).

In Thursday night’s much-ballyhooed vice-presidential debate, the issue of climate change received a bit of attention, but neither candidate was really pushed to develop their statements much beyond their original answers (Biden on his recent comment in a rope-line that the Obama-Biden ticket didn’t support clean coal and Palin on her waffling position on the causes of climate change). But the format didn’t really allow for deeper exploration either.

>>More on the vice-presidential debate at RG&B

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/feed/ Vice-Presidential Debate: Palin vs. Biden On Global Warming http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/vice-presidential-debate-palin-vs-biden-on-global-warming/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/vice-presidential-debate-palin-vs-biden-on-global-warming/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:32:39 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/vice-presidential-debate-palin-vs-biden-on-global-warming/ In the Vice Presidential debate earlier this evening, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden each had a strong point of view on global warming. Gwen Ifill, the moderator, specifically questioned Palin about her views on carbon emissions and Biden about his view on clean coal technology.

Here are some key excerpts from the debate:

 

Sarah Palin

  • She confirmed that John McCain wants to put a cap on carbon emissions.
  • She said that the nation had to become “energy independent,” conserving fuel and clean up the planet.
  • She talked of America’s cry for tapping into domestic energy sources, saying they support a “drill, baby, drill” attitude as a measure for becoming energy independent
  • She criticized Biden for an overheard comment he made on a rope line that appeared to contradict Barack Obama’s support of building clean coal plants.

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    ]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/vice-presidential-debate-palin-vs-biden-on-global-warming/feed/ Canadian Challenge: Canadian Election Debate, or American Vice-Presidential Debate? http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/canadian-challenge-canadian-election-debate-or-american-vice-presidential-debate/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/canadian-challenge-canadian-election-debate-or-american-vice-presidential-debate/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:13:42 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/canadian-challenge-canadian-election-debate-or-american-vice-presidential-debate/ Canada US FlagsCanadian political junkies are all busy programming their VCRs, Tivos, or getting all set up to Bittorrent tonight. Thanks to the vagaries of the Parliamentary process, there is a Canadian election called for October 14th. And, similar to the Presidential debates that have been, and will be happening, the leaders of Canada’s five major parties:

    are participating in back to back French and English language debates (you can read coverage of the debates here). For those readers who are wondering, Canada is officially bilingual, and therefore the major party leaders have a debate in each official language prior to the election.

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    ]]>     http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/canadian-challenge-canadian-election-debate-or-american-vice-presidential-debate/feed/     Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden - Who Won? [poll] http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/sarah-palin-vs-joe-biden-who-won/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/sarah-palin-vs-joe-biden-who-won/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:35:42 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/sarah-palin-vs-joe-biden-who-won/ Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska square off in the Vice Presidential Debate, 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Join us after the debate to tell us who won and why?

    Click Here to Answer the RG&B Poll Question: Who Won Thursday’s Vice-Presidential Debate?

    Joe Biden and Sarah Palin go head-to-head at vice-presidential debate

    Image source: Biden and Palin via Wikipedia

    ]]>     http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/sarah-palin-vs-joe-biden-who-won/feed/     Energy Might Be the Explosive Topic of the Biden-Palin Debate http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/energy-might-be-the-explosive-topic-of-the-biden-palin-debate/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/energy-might-be-the-explosive-topic-of-the-biden-palin-debate/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:18:41 +0000 Levi Novey http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/energy-might-be-the-explosive-topic-of-the-biden-palin-debate/ Biden and Palin SpeakingWith the economy tanking, several wars being fought abroad, climate change producing devastating hurricanes, and strengthened calls for a sustainable economy, energy has become one of the strong links that binds all of these issues. In anticipation of tomorrow night’s vice-presidential debate, it’s probably a safe bet to put your money on energy as one of the topics that’s likely to fire up the discussion.

    Here’s why:

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    ]]>     http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/energy-might-be-the-explosive-topic-of-the-biden-palin-debate/feed/     Clinton Praises Obama in Florida While Biden Gets Ignored (VIDEO) http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/clinton-praises-obama-in-florida-while-biden-gets-ignored-video/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/clinton-praises-obama-in-florida-while-biden-gets-ignored-video/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:03:18 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/clinton-praises-obama-in-florida-while-biden-gets-ignored-video/ This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post.

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    ]]>     http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/01/clinton-praises-obama-in-florida-while-biden-gets-ignored-video/feed/     ZapRoot: Plastic Trees and Sarah Palin http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/25/zaproot-plastic-trees-and-sarah-palin/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/25/zaproot-plastic-trees-and-sarah-palin/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:53:07 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/25/zaproot-plastic-trees-and-sarah-palin/ Click here to view the full post.

    From our friends at ZapRoot this week: Arizona tests artificial CO2 filtering trees. Sarah Palin loves oil. We help you find ways to get rid of your junk mail.

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    ]]>     http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/25/zaproot-plastic-trees-and-sarah-palin/feed/     Biden: No New Coal Plants in U.S. [video] http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/23/biden-no-new-coal-plants-in-us-video/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/23/biden-no-new-coal-plants-in-us-video/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:21:35 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/23/biden-no-new-coal-plants-in-us-video/ While at a campaign stop in Maumee, OH, Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden said there should be no new coal plants in the United States, clean or otherwise. Biden also stressed the need to get China on board. Watch for yourself:

    This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post. ]]>     http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/23/biden-no-new-coal-plants-in-us-video/feed/     ZapRoot: The World’s Best Bike Thief http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/10/zaproot-the-worlds-best-bike-thief/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/10/zaproot-the-worlds-best-bike-thief/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:26:00 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/10/zaproot-the-worlds-best-bike-thief/ Click here to view the full post.

    This week from our friends at ZapRoot: The most notorious bicycle thief is caught in Canada. Find out how Green is Joe Biden? Check out a new batch of Alternative Autos.

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    ]]>     http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/10/zaproot-the-worlds-best-bike-thief/feed/     Green Biz Leaders Push for Obama Win http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/04/green-biz-leaders-push-for-obama-win/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/04/green-biz-leaders-push-for-obama-win/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:49:56 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/04/green-biz-leaders-push-for-obama-win/ realjameso16 at Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license.)Barack Obama is the U.S.’s best hope for developing a clean-energy future, according to a new group formed to promote and raise funds for the Democratic presidential nominee.

    Cleantech & Green Business Leaders for Obama (Cleantech for Obama, or CT4O) kicked off its campaign in San Francisco this week. The organization plans to hold fund-raising events across the country to collect at least $1 million to support Obama’s campaign.

    Some of the group’s coming events include a Sept. 7 “Barbecue for Barack” in Durham, North Carolina, and an Oct. 11 “Baracktoberfest” in San Francisco.

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    ]]>     http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/04/green-biz-leaders-push-for-obama-win/feed/     Biden Says Obama Will Make Alternative Energy a National Priority http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/28/biden-says-obama-will-make-alternative-energy-a-national-priority/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/28/biden-says-obama-will-make-alternative-energy-a-national-priority/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:13:09 +0000 Andrew Williams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/28/biden-says-obama-will-make-alternative-energy-a-national-priority/ In his much anticipated speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden has confirmed that, if elected, Barack Obama will give priority to bold policies on alternative energy.

    In a clear reference to the Republican voting record on renewable energy tax credits, and McCain’s personal views on the issue, he said, “Even today, as oil companies post the biggest profits in history—a half trillion dollars in the last five years—he wants to give them another $4bn in tax breaks. But he voted time and again against incentives for renewable energy: solar, wind, bio-fuels. That’s not change; that’s more of the same.”

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