Why aren't these guys the asshole fuckfaces of the week? They off by just a day.


Really interesting that the EPA, which you'd think be bitch-slapping Big Oil around, is being used to take down everything else =/.

reprehensible.

W is the anti-christ and I don't have words for Biily C

for fucks sake...it's a damn shame that our congress is just sucking bush and his cronies off and taking their evil loads into their mouths, assholes, and giant floppy vaginas. And McCain, who is all for american energy independence, isn't going to do a damn thing to actually make it happen, except try to annex the middle east and turn it into a protectorate like Guam. Fuck.

The EPA is always afraid they'll be cut out of the budget in Washington each year... and will only go after the folks that are "safe" to do so.

More and more it becomes obvious, to me at least, that the only clear, defined goal of this presidency was to make a few people a lot of money. After reading this, and countless other tidbits of information, I'm inclined to think that everything from the war in Iraq to the deregulation of oil trading and everything in between is all being done in the interest of padding people's bank accounts to the tune of billions of dollars. I don't think Bush is a retard, or that he hates the environment, or that he's a war monger. I just think he acts like those things, because doing so makes him and his friends ungodly amounts of money.

So now what? Besides writing your senators/reps, giving to environmental defense groups, and voting/hoping for a better leader next time around...? Do we forward this article to everyone we know and try to get people talking about it? Try to hook it up to a larger liberal news outlet like NPR? Sierra club is still trying to stop the pointless new oil drilling off-coast which was the environmental santorum of last week, and rightfully so, but if our leadership is slicing to pieces any hope of progress on clean energy on the one hand and complaining that clean energy will never be competitive on the other, how the fuck do you ever get ahead of that curve?

Every time I read an FtR article the arteries in my brain swell and threaten to burst, but I'm also gripped with a desire to change things. I know it's preposterously naive to come in here and ask for guidance, and before it is suggested I'm too conventional to drop my life and become a professional monkeywrencher, but what's the next step?

My head hurts just trying to wrap my head around this. We can only hope this will change next January, I guess.
And I agree with Kohai. What is the best course of action to take next? I mean, something needs to be done.

Move to a country that actually believes in alternative energy, minimizing environmental impact and not beating up on smaller countries for profits?

Source?

Yet the bastards go ahead with the southern border fence without environmental or archaeological compliance work done in the name of homeland security. One of the may criminal acts of this administration.

To call Clinton a "corporate whore" is pretty unfounded based on the reality that the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act requires Environmental Impact Statements for any large-scale project proposed for federal lands. That law may, in practice, prove to be cumbersome for the "good" projects, such as wind or solar energy plants -- as well as more ill-advised ones -- but nonetheless serves an important function in requiring extensive review (by all parties involved) of any major proposed land usage.

Your points regarding our government's general unfriendliness toward clean energy initiatives, and its continued love affair with Big Oil are valid, but a blanket condemnation of Clinton, or anyone else, based on half-truths or a lack of information doesn't serve any of us.

My best friend is a solar panel salesman, and I used the term 'alternative energy' in front of him the other day. He corrected me by pointing out that 'alternative energy' encompasses potentially damaging power sources like nuclear and large-scale hydro-electric. The preferred term is 'renewable energy,' as this term implies both a commitment to environmentally low impact energy sources and a de-emphasis on fossil fuels as the default (as opposed to alternative) energy source.

Also, as you pointed out, all the major wind companies in America are European, so that's a major growth market we've opted out of. The one that's most active in Upstate New York is Spanish. Thanks, ex-presidents.

God help us, but I think you're talking about Germany.

Germany's not so bad. I rather prefer Bavaria to, say, Saxony, though.

Except that Germany often has power shortages since their location isn't great for wind/solar so they are often forced to buy power from France where almost all of their power is Nuclear. You might be interested to hear that one of the oil men in this nation (forget how to spell his name but he has been mentioned before in the CE boards) is going to get in the wind power business in this nation.