''After all the attention the BP spill is getting (the inescapable video image of the broken wellhead spurting oil), its interruption hasn't yet brought Congress to face the real problem of climate change: reducing the amount of energy we use.
It's not about demonizing our suppliers, with vaguely racist caricatures of Muammar Achmadinajad, as mailings from Operation Free (of the Truman National Security Project of some congressional democrats), and wildly overstating the costs of importing oil ["a billion dollars a day"].
http://www.trumanproject.org/files/papers/Oil_Addiction_-_Fueling_Our_Enemies_FINAL.pdf
Or the quick fix promised by hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens and his "Picken s Plan."
It's an extremely sketchy combination of wind power and supposedly large new sources of natural gas, "induced" by fracturing the shale in which it's found through a scary injection of fluid. The scheme would also entail converting all of our 8 million tractor trailers to run on natural gas (which has a substantially lower energy content than gasoline or diesel, and presents new explosion hazards), to the tune of several hundred dollars per vehicle.
http://www.pickensplan.com/
His fellow billionaire Ted Turner signed on as a "supporter."
Nor will the so-called "clean energy climate bill," passed by the House and being considered by the Senate:
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFN1523837220100715 .
It takes increasing the price of oil so consumers use less.
Duncan Brown - 4501 16th Street N - 703-243-1219
It's not about demonizing our suppliers, with vaguely racist caricatures of Muammar Achmadinajad, as mailings from Operation Free (of the Truman National Security Project of some congressional democrats), and wildly overstating the costs of importing oil ["a billion dollars a day"].
http://www.trumanproject.org/files/papers/Oil_Addiction_-_Fueling_Our_Enemies_FINAL.pdf
Or the quick fix promised by hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens and his "Picken s Plan."
It's an extremely sketchy combination of wind power and supposedly large new sources of natural gas, "induced" by fracturing the shale in which it's found through a scary injection of fluid. The scheme would also entail converting all of our 8 million tractor trailers to run on natural gas (which has a substantially lower energy content than gasoline or diesel, and presents new explosion hazards), to the tune of several hundred dollars per vehicle.
http://www.pickensplan.com/
His fellow billionaire Ted Turner signed on as a "supporter."
http://www.pickensplan.com/news/tag/supporters/
Nor will the so-called "clean energy climate bill," passed by the House and being considered by the Senate:
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFN1523837220100715 .
It takes increasing the price of oil so consumers use less.
Duncan Brown - 4501 16th Street N - 703-243-1219
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