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Wall Street’s crisis shows need for Fair Elections

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged AIG, bailout, Campaign Finance, Fair Elections Now Act, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, wall street on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Make no mistake about it, we face an economic crisis of enormous proportions. But the rush to bail out Wall Street firms with a “hair on fire” urgency rings so hollow when you consider how much the American people have already gone through. Millions of people have lost their homes to foreclosures. Many are being [...]

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Letting Go of Ethanol

Posted in Global Warming, tagged ethanol, solar on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been wanting to write a piece arguing that just because ethanol isn’t a complete solution to global warming and oil prices, it is still an alternative to oil and therefore good. Unfortunately, I can’t honestly say that because ethanol isn’t even a partial solution; it’s just a bigger problem. I really wanted to like [...]

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Abandon All Hope…

Posted in Coal, Diesel, tagged ADEQ, AEP, arkansas, Coal, Global Warming, hope, plant, SWEPCO, Turk on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

…ye who enter the Turk plant. Last Thursday in Hope, Arkansas there were two meetings. One was widely attended, the other was not… mostly because hardly anyone had heard of it. They hadn’t heard of it because it snuck in under the wire, with barely (if at all) the proper notices and alerts. It was [...]

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