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Why American PV Makers Do Not Want Cheap Solar

Joe Walsh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:00:57 +0000

If it were possible to make perfect public policy, we would not be in the middle of our nation’s 111th Congress. Alas, there is no “set it and forget it” formula for governing. Add in complex scientific questions, global-scale economics and technological innovation, and you have the energy and environmental policy challenge: how do we succesfully incentive and subsidize renewable fuels (or penalize emissions and fossil fuels)? Feed-in tariffs pose problems. Cap-and-trade has proven thorny. Green power options still need a lot of fine-tuning.

One universal difficulty is the continuing cost gap between renewable and fossil fuels. Creating an incentive program that works within the prevailing market - even a heavily regulated one - without interfering with normal market operation is very difficult when the price points are so far apart. Internalizing some of the costs of burning fossil fuels would help close that gap, and that is what cap-and-trade is all about: promote and subsidize clean energy and put downward pressure (both economically and through command and control) on dirtier fuels.

Conservative PAC Ad Uses Fear to Decry Waxman-Markey Climate Bill

Timothy B. Hurst — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:11:48 +0000

‘American Solutions for Winning the Future’ scaring Americans into action?

With all signs pointing to a Friday vote in the House of Representatives on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, the right-wing political action committee behind the “Drill here, drill now, pay less” campaign of last summer, yesterday launched a last-ditch effort to block climate change legislation by scaring the crap out of you.

The ad, produced by the group American Solutions for Winning the Future, urges you to contact your Representative to tell them how scared you are of the devastating economic impacts of climate and energy legislation. The new commercial was released on the heals of a Congressional Budget Office report that found the annual cost of the Waxman-Markey climate bill would be an average of $175 per household — far less than previous GOP cost estimates.

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Led by former Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, American Solutions for Winning the Future is no garden variety political organization. Financed by a host of high-profile billionaire-backers including Casino Kingpin and third richest person in America, Sheldon Adelson; co-founder of PayPal and staunch libertarian Peter Thiel; Cincinatti businessman and second-biggest contributor to the GOP, Dick Farmer, and; textile magnate and patron of right-wing causes for almost 50 years, Roger Milliken, the organization has emerged as one of the most powerful and, perhaps, reactionary PACs on the American political landscape.

Mean Joe Green #64: Newt Gingrich Admits to Being an Alien

Joe Mohr — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:28:20 +0000

A lot of things make much more sense now. I wonder what planet he comes from. And, more importantly, I wonder why so many republicans cheered when he announced that he is not of this world. How long have they known?!?!
…I’m scared.

Newt Gingrich Declares: “I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!”
This is Your Newt Gingrich (VIDEO)

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This is Your Newt Gingrich (VIDEO)

Jerry James Stone — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:37:36 +0000