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No nation will be able to meet the challenges of growing the economy and creating jobs in the 21st century without a serious investment in green technology.
For too long, the world — including the United States — has been slow to respond to or even recognize the magnitude of the climate change threat.
But this is a new day. In the last eight months, the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution than at any other time in our history. The Obama administration has made the largest-ever investment in renewable energy and invested billions to reduce energy waste. The administration is also proposing, for the first time in history, a new national standard that will increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks.
Most importantly, the House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June. This legislation – the American Clean Energy and Security Act – would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
WAYNE FLICK
Grand Junction
28 Responses to “Obama administration is working for a greener tomorrow”
Posted September 24th, 2009 at 9:07 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Oh and wayne lets don’t forget a giant increase in unemployment and and a debt that we can never pay off.
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 5:34 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
OMG Wake up Wayne. The Bozo has done nothing but destroy our once grat and feared republic.
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Sorry it should have read great
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 8:09 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Profitable green enregy? Does that take into consideration the subsidies (taxpayer funded) that will be necessary to make it affordable? Hopefully the bill includes an increase in the production of nuclear power - the only proven cost-effective “green” energy.
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 9:11 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
(from an email)
A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline.
A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles - so that’s 224 million gallons / year.
That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.
5 million barrels of oil is about ¼ of one day’s US consumption.
And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $375 million dollars at $75/bbl.
So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion to save $375 million.
Good Deal, Huh???
And they’re doing the same great job with health care!!
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 9:58 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
375 million A YEAR. Ten years, we’ve saved 3.75 billion. Add in the lowered maintenance costs due to newer vehicles and we’re saving a lot more. Not to mention newer vehicles means higher safety standards and fewer people getting killed on the highways.
So yeah, it sounds like a good deal to me.
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 10:24 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Hooray! The Obama administration is addressing “Global Warming” when the earth has been cooling since 1998! Genius! All the while imposing industry crippling, citizen impoverishing, crony enhancing caps on how much carbon is being produced. What a bunch of garbage. It’s dumbfounding that there are still believers in Global Warming. Google earth temperature trends and see what you find. Global warming is a good ol’ smoke and mirrors stunt to draw attention away from truly dramatic and fast approaching crises that an imploding dollar will bring about. As foreign banks dump the dollar as their reserve currency, does anyone think it will maintain it’s value?
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 10:25 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Keep on’ charging those wind mills Wayne, you’ll get one eventually!
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 10:30 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
And also….natural gas is one of the greenest energy sources we have….and ….we have enormous amounts of it all around us!
Posted September 25th, 2009 at 11:09 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
“Most importantly, the House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June. This legislation – the American Clean Energy and Security Act – would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” - And with the wave of the wand the Fairy GodMother made cinderalla magically appear in a beautiful gown with crystal slippers! Amazing what economics has become in the minds of a Keynesian. More rich chocolatey bailouts please!
Posted September 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Oh yeah those new hybrid cars are so environmentally friendly…
http://www.impactlab.com/2007/03/14/prius-outdoes-hummer-in-environmental-damage/
Posted September 26th, 2009 at 9:08 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
nice duke, wouldn’t an alternative just be another choice? (by definiition) so yes, natural gas IS an alternative energy. and it just so happens to be the cleanest fuel we have. don’t you want to stop the EVIL global warming, the silent killer? those carbon emissions will have us all dead in 50 years you know!
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 5:27 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
david,
Overstating the threat of climate change for the purpose of sarcasm does not minimize the reality of said threat. Natural gas is a non-renewable, fossil fuel. Please be so kind as to provide some data to support your claim that natural gas is “the cleanest fuel we have”. Thank you, and have a nice day.
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
The problem with providing data is that if it does not come from some far left rag or environmental group then duke and his cronies call it bogus. I of course call anything from a left wing rag or an environmental group(same thing) bogus. Fortunately for all of us, mainstream America does not agree with duke and his cronies.
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Rexall, Dayid, FYI:
From the National Climatic Data Center August 2009 summary report:
“• The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for August 2009 was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F). This is the second warmest such value on record, behind 1998. August 2009 was the 31st consecutive August with an average global surface temperature above the 20th century average. The last August with global temperatures below the 20th century average occurred in 1978.
• The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June-August 2009 was the third warmest on record for the season, 0.59°C (1.06°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F).
• For the year to date, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature of 14.5 °C (58.3 °F) tied with 2003 as the fifth-warmest January-August period on record. This value is 0.55°C (0.99°F) above the 20th century average.
• The worldwide ocean surface temperature for August 2009 was the warmest on record for August, 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.4°F).
• The seasonal (June-August 2009) worldwide ocean surface temperature was also the warmest on record, 0.58°C (1.04°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F).
• In the Southern Hemisphere, both the August 2009 average temperature for land areas, and the Hemisphere as a whole (land and ocean surface combined), represented the warmest August on record.
• A weak El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean during August 2009. Consequently, sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean were between 0.7-1.0°C (1.3-1.8°F) above average during the month. According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, El Niño is expected to strengthen and last through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2009-2010.”
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 8:27 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
rm,
Astounding documentation you have there. Before anyone takes your bait and believes in all this non-sense I will give everyone a bigger picture perspective that you choose to ignore or ignore with intent because it does not fit your brainwashed agenda.
Let’s look at the bigger picture and some facts you never mention. The earth is some 4 billion years old. Official, accurate “recorded” climate data to include average global surface temperature has only been done so for 150 years. Do the math, 150 years out of 4 billion, pretty small percent to bank our future on and fork over hard earned tax money to greedy politicians like Al Gore who will make millions off cap and trade. Thanks but no thanks. I will keep my money and go to Vegas, the odds are better than betting on manmade global warming causing temperature rise.
This is like beating a dead horse every time it is brought up here but maybe saying it enough will finally sink in for the likes of rm. Past climates on the earth have been shown to be much warmer than now through the study of paleoclimatology, before man entered the picture. Again, it has been shown through the Vostok Ice core records that the rise in C02 lags behind temperature as much as 800 years so it stands to reason temperature drives the rise in C02, not man.
Last, the evidence of the correlation between sunspot activity and the rise and fall in earth’s temperature is gaining ground every day. Sorry rm we can regulate the suns temperature by I am sure you and your buddies believing in all this, Al Gore et al, will find a legal way to spin sunspot activity into a tax on all of us. Strange the ice caps on mars have been retreating and advancing at the same time as the earth’s polar caps. Some of Jupiter and Saturn’s ice locked moons were melting as well. Guess it is time we look at cap and trade for the Martians. When sunspots are active the sun heats up and so does our atmosphere. The opposite occurs when sunspots are dormant. As recorded by rm’s infamous National Climatic Data Center the earth’s average global yearly temperature has been falling and guess what? Sunspot activity has been dormant since 2001 when average global temperature started to fall and continues to do so. Could it be so simple? Get some perspective.
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Duke: Even you should support NG for the short term until some other cost-effective energy can be found right? The leftist agenda isn’t to disable our country enroute to a better future? I believe there is something to global warming but I also need a cost effective “real” future that lets me pay for college tuition, weddings, etc. CAP&TRADE is the same (in my humble “uneducated opinion”) as the healthcare debate - let those smarter than most of us decide how best we should live. Quite franlky I am still sick of all of you. Please go away - all of you. Hopefully we will vote everyone out and we will have to start over (in 7(-) years) with REAL people and not some appologist for some hopeless political system.
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 9:13 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Rexall said,
“The problem with providing data is that if it does not come from some far left rag or environmental group then duke and his cronies call it bogus.”
Rexall, you ol’flatterer you, I wish I were important enough to have cronies. And I say, try me on the data, I might surprise you.
“Fortunately for all of us, mainstream America does not agree with duke and his cronies”.
Umm…I didn’t elect all those Democrats by myself, now did I?
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
warhorse,
I am genuinely sorry you feel that way. I DO, in fact, support the development of natural gas resources as a means to help relieve our dependence on foreign oil by using it as a transportation fuel and to also help bend the pollution curve in the short term by converting our electrical production facilities from coal to natural gas.
The picture of those people who worked to create Colorados’ new COGCC rules (and have worked to mitigate the industries impacts) as oil and gas “haters” and “terrorist supporting socialists” was painted by a very talented and hard working group of oil and gas lobbyists and their merry band of Republican water carriers. It simply isn’t true. Sure, there are leafy green enviros out there who are just as nuts as the GlennBeck. Let’s take some of the folks at PETA as a case in point.
But , warhorse…I am NOT one of them. With me and my associates it has always been about HOW it is done…not THAT it is done. Why is that so hard for you to grasp…or perhaps admit?
Rulison…They are drilling closer and closer to an underground nuclear test site with no real time monitoring and 40 year old data in their computer models…Hello?
the Roan Plateau…40,000 measly little acres out of 93,000,000 that the locals want them to stay the hell out of…private minerals? Nope… public minerals, private profit.
Waste pits, poisoned drinking water, polluted creeks, increases in asthma; these things are real problems, warhorse and SOMEBODY has to address them. It should be the local and state governments. Well, we fixed it at the state level, but as long as Kathy Halls’ protege, Craig Meis, and his industry buddies control Club 20, the GJ Chamber of Commerce, the Grand Junction Economic Parnership, the Board of Realtors, etc., this community will continue to vilify anyone who so much as questions them or expects accountability from them.
And no, sorry, I am not going away. After 36 years, I kinda consider it home.
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 3:27 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
warhorse says, “..let those smarter than most of us decide how best we should live….Hopefully we will vote everyone out and we will have to start over (in 7(-) years) with REAL people and not some appologist for some hopeless political system.”
and
“I can’t wait to change this nonsense! Assuming their is still a true republic by then.”
I’m with you as far as needing to start over and boot ALL the career politicians, crony capitalists and corporate lobbyists out of Washington…. but I’m curious who you are considering to be “smarter” than us/you? Who are you are willing to let decide how you live your life? Aren’t they the same people who are now in Congress with the power to literally “decide”? The same people you also hope will be voted out?
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 7:06 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
“No nation will be able to meet the challenges of growing the economy and creating jobs in the 21st century without a serious investment in green technology.”
Really?
As long as there is excess oil, coal, and natural gas around, they remain the cheapest sources of energy. And until the people of the world come to believe that carbon is a poison, it is economically nonsensical to replace carbon with more expensive alternatives.
Having said that, the United States should do everything possible, for national defense reasons, to reduce its oil imports. And for that reason I favor increased fuel efficiency standards, increase domestic oil production, increased use of natural gas for transportation, a transition to electric powered automobiles, and any other economically feasible means of reducing the consumption of petroleum.
Over time these moves will prepare the United States for the day when global oil production begins to decline and oil prices skyrocket. And if some day it is proved, to the satisfaction of most folks, that carbon is, indeed, a poison, then nuclear power production can be used as a substitute for coal and natural gas to power the electric vehicle fleet.
The United States economy is already in a deep, deep, hole with our enormous federal deficit and attempts to burden it even further through additional high taxes aimed at doing away with carbon is going to make matters even worse.
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 7:34 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Here’s the simple truth about man made global warming:
“A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.”
- Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth
Her statement says it all.
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 11:40 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Right now, today and tomorrow the best kind of green energy is to drill in green pastures or green forests.
As soon as Israel attacks Iran the flow of oil from the mideast will nearly come to a stop. A green fuel for the future is still 50 years away from being invented. Drill baby Drill!!!
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Scott, you’re sounding a lot like el maestro Laitres. hah! not that bigfoot was using good logic ….
Posted September 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Well, someone has to fill in. Thanks for the complement.
Posted October 1st, 2009 at 9:52 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
This LTE is a fine example of what lawyers call plagairism. http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=110850&id=50913
Posted October 1st, 2009 at 1:04 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Good catch Sawdust. Seems to be a lot of that going around! Will the real teleprompter please stand up?
“Green technology critical to growth
No nation will be able to meet the challenges of growing the economy and creating jobs in the 21st century without a serious investment in green technology. For too long, the world, including the United States, has been slow to respond to or even recognize the magnitude of the climate change threat. But this is a new day.
In the last eight months, the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution than at any other time in our history. The Obama administration has made the largest-ever investment in renewable energy and invested billions to reduce energy waste. The administration is also proposing, for the first time in history, a new national standard that will increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks. Most important, the House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June: the American Clean Energy and Security Act would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Michael Howells
Honolulu
http://www.starbulletin.com/editorials/20090930_Letters_to_the_Editor.html
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“REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT UNITED NATIONS
SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON’S
CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT
Sept. 22, 2009″
“It is true that for too many years, mankind has been slow to respond or even recognize the magnitude of the climate threat. It is true of my own country, as well….. But this is a new day. It is a new era. And I am proud to say that the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than at any other time in our history…..”
“We’ve proposed the very first national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks — a standard that will also save consumers money and our nation oil. …. Most importantly, the House of Representatives passed an energy and climate bill in June that would finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy for American businesses and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ”
- Barack Obama
http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/climatechange/shared/Documents/USA.pdf
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From New York to Hawaii and back to li’l ole GJ-CO….. Dazed Obamatrons from Sea to Shining Sea…. LOL
Posted October 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
I have to give you that, JMH. All your posts are correctly cited from where you parroted them from.
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