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Why there could be a silver lining in a failed climate treaty.
From John Edwards to Mark Sanford, the decade's memorable affairs.
Do you know the difference between a moral and an economic argument? For Clinton and McClain it is a moral issue not an economic one. Economists do not recognize morality, so leave their arguments out of it.
Demand $2 a Gallon Gas
Oil hit a new high of $120 a barrel on May 5, 2008.
The cost of making a barrel of synthetic fuel from coal is estimated to be around $55, including the sizeable infrastructure investments and the labor force necessary to operate the plant.
Petroleum poor Germany fueled WWII with synfuel from coal. It is proven technology.
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal with 1/3rd of the deposits on planet. We can eliminate dependence on foreign oil.
Reducing America???s trade imbalance, keeps money, technology and jobs here in America.
It is estimated that every billion in trade deficit equals 13,000 American jobs lost. $400 billion for oil last year: do the math.
And we can quit sending those billions to countrys that sponsor terrorism.
Synfuels are cleaner burning than gasoline and carbon sequestration can remove the CO2 hot house gases.
Visit http://governor.mt.gov/hottopics/faqsynthetic.asp
Ethanol from corn is a windfall for farmers but is it good for motorists.
After 4 months Congress is already rethinking. Unintended consequences include higher food costs for wheat, chicken, beef, pork, less grain for export, reduced gas mileage and incompatibility with older cars.
Harness your anger at the pump. Call or write your US Senators and demand a Manhattan Project to create an American synfuel industry within the decade.
If you don???t raise your voice the international companies, lobbyist and politicians will assume you are fat dumb and happy and ready to pay even more.
In Kentucky call
Senator Jim Bunning @
202-224-4343
and
Senator Mitch McConnnell @
202-224-2541
It was only a matter of time!
In this one move, the White House ended McCain's accountability for his use or abuse of the primary public financing system while putting him in position to take money for the general.
For this maneuver to have been arranged for the benefit of Senator McCain, of all people--the John McCain who has regularly, severely criticized the FEC as a "corrupt" agency--is a remarkable turn in his career as a reformer. A Commissioner who acted to enforce the law, to just raise an important question of enforcement, has been stripped of his post. This was clearly in Senator McCain's interest, this raw power play. It is also in his interest to have the FEC, back in business minus Mason, arrange for his money for the fall campaign.
He goes on to make a case that's going to be central to Obama's logic for forgoing public financing, despite his pledge to join the system: That McCain is a hypocrite on this reform issue.
For all the time that McCain has savaged the performance of the FEC, he has LED the sizeable crowd of critics who believed that the agency is too beholden, on the whole, to the narrow interests of parties and their candidates. Yesterday, Republicans could not have acted more narrowly in just this vein: effectively firing a Commissioner to immunize their Presidential nominee from enforcement action in a pending case but making sure that there is enough of an agency left to get him the money needed to finance his campaign.
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