Green Options

I’ve been reading all week about Bush’s desire for a smooth transition–a “seamless handoff” to the Obama administration.

Welcome to the first official “Caption Contest” for Mean Joe Green and Red Green and Blue! The winning caption will be published here next Wednesday.

McCain seems to think Governor Palin is a leading authority on energy. This is almost as ridiculous as the Governor herself (mis)quoting Starbucks cups to rally women voters.

Gore said for the carbon lobby to be trying to convince their stockholders that renewable energy is risky business and that climate change is a hoax, they are purporting a type of stock fraud that should be addressed by attorneys general across the country.

Welcome to the no spin zone… The future of renewable energy does not bode well with a candidate who was absent for the eight key votes to extend renewable energy tax credits.

With just about every report linking the increase in extreme weather to global warming, it was quite a coincidence that four tornadoes touched down near Denver on Sunday. With the Democratic National Convention beginning there on Monday, it seemed like an attempt by Mother Nature to remind the Democrats to treat climate change with the attention it deserves.

John McCain has again said something to cause his fellow western-state Republicans to wince at his political inexpedience and apparent naivete, stating last week that he wants to renegotiate the Colorado River compact to re-appropriate water from the upper basin states where the river originates and give it to lower basin states like California, and his home state of Arizona. Even though the Senator has now recanted and begun damage control, Democrats are hoping that this one will cost him, [...]

In a recent Grist interview with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi filmed after Al Gore’s speech to move to 100% renewable energy in the next ten years, Pelosi states the environmental impact of supporting Obama over McCain.

But the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will not be receiving any “Man of the Year” plaques in Michigan any time soon, because he also told the audience of more than 500 GM workers that he would let individual states set tailpipe emission regulations.

GOP candidate John McCain has his eyes on nuclear energy to address our current climate crisis.

Nothing like solving one problem while creating another. I can understand that he may hate the sun for what it does to his pasty white skin. And that he may hate the wind for messing up his well placed comb-over–but if he could just look past all that and see that both the sun and the wind could provide our country free, clean energy he’d have many more fans in the REAL world.

Could it be the one time cost for a wind turbine and/or solar panels that’s keeping the energy industry, John, and many of his right-wing good-old-boys from falling in love with the right alternative? Without the option for a wide base of customers to gouge repeatedly (ie. fuel costs) they all may be thinking–what’s the point?

Florida Governor Charlie Crist endorsed John McCain right before the Florida Republican primary. His endorsement might have been a significant factor in McCain winning the Florida primary, and subsequently the Republican nomination.

Speculation began immediately thereafter that Crist might make a great running mate for McCain, given his popularity in Florida, and his potential ability to swing the crucial electoral state toward McCain during the general [...]