The 2008 U.S and Wordwide Energy Consumption Projections (see below) forecast a frightening scenario for the next 22 years. With all the talk about “breaking our addiction to oil” and global warming concerns, fossil fuels are projected to remain the dominant source of energy with the highest growth. Fortunately these are just projections and fail to take many things into account. [Read more →]
It’s a win–win–win situation! I recently lowered electricity usage and my bill about 25%. So can you. It was simple!
Today the President signed your [his] energy bill. You gave the President and the big energy companies the energy bill they wanted and let the American people down again. As I was afraid just more of the “same old.”
Here’s what happened: [Read more →]
The minority rules!
From the NY Times 11/12/07:
“On Tuesday, senators and their staff members were negotiating other provisions of the House-passed bill. It appeared that a measure to require utilities to produce 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources would be dropped and a $21 billion tax package included in the House bill would be scaled down, although it was not clear by how much. A Senate vote on the bill could come as early as Thursday, aides said.”
The European Union aims to have renewable energy sources providing 21% of the electricity in Europe by the year 2010. If 27 different countries can commit to a single and ambitious goal, why can’t be done here? [Read more →]
Hybrid cars are a good step to reducing our dependency on oil, but as reported in today’s NY Times, Honda and GM are taking this to an even greater level by introducing hydrogen cars in 2008. Powered by fuel-cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity, these cars use no gasoline and emit no pollution—only water vapor. [Read more →]
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