Posted on 04/01/2008 8:00:06 PM PDT by CedarDave
The nation's oldest and largest environmental group has set out to educate voters in New Mexico and eight other battleground states about clean energy, saying the future of the country's energy policy hinges on this year's elections.
Rather than focusing on individual candidates, the Sierra Club is highlighting the successes of renewable energy production in the nine states and asking voters to consider the economic and environmental impacts of policies that depend on fossil and foreign fuels.
"We're in the middle of this very exciting election cycle and we have the technology now to move beyond oil and coal, beyond these dirty energy policies. ... Our message is basically we have the power to change direction,'' said Michael Casaus, a regional representative for the Sierra Club in New Mexico.
Sierra Club officials have described the five-week Power2Change campaign as an unprecedented effort by the group.
"We've never tried anything like this before,'' Casaus said, pointing to the combination of grass-roots organizing in the nine states along with an online effort to collect petition signatures, recruit volunteers and generate public demand for clean energy options.
The group on Tuesday started sending out e-mails urging people to sign a petition that calls on politicians to "make the right choices'' when it comes to energy production. Internet advertisements will follow Wednesday.
So far, more than 5,200 people have signed the online petition and volunteers on the ground in the nine states have collected nearly 8,000 signatures.
It's no accident that the group is focusing on New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin.
"All of them are battleground states in the presidential election and a majority of them have a competitive Senate race as well. ...'' said David Karol, an assistant professor of political science at UC Berkeley.
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New Mexico list PING!
If a Shit’nShineola Sierra Club activist spewing cow crap gets within ax handle range of me or mine we’ll will show em energy conservation in a right proper manner..........the silly liberal losers will no doubt be happier that I used recycled hickory vs a lead bullet to get their attention......
if we must have an investigation, how about investigating the extent to which government regulations drive up prices and block new production?
NM Officials Protest Upcoming BLM Oil and Gas Lease Sale
And so obstructions to additional energy production continue ...The New Mexico Game and Fish Department and other conservationists are protesting the Bureau of Land Management's upcoming oil and gas lease sale, saying the federal agency should reconsider nearly half of the parcels up for bid because of potential impacts on wildlife and their habitats.
The BLM is offering dozens of parcels covering thousands of acres in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma as part of the agency's quarterly sale on April 16. Protests over the planned sale were due Tuesday afternoon.
Never mind if it’s clean.
We need RENEWABLE energy. No more sending our national wealth (not to mention our own paychecks) to *TERRORISTS*.
No more.
I think this truckers strike is just the beginning.
Old oil, is about to meet America’s blue collar.
Bush, naturally, doesn’t get it, doesn’t care - and that’s in large part why we now have McCain as the candidate.
Reagan got it.
I feel sorry for some of the independent truckers who are paying high fuel prices without ( apparently ) being able to pass their costs on.
But I have yet to see one trucker understand nor any TV talking head explain that America needs expanded refining capacity for diesel and ...
We would have more energy resources in this country, if it wasn’t for the Sierra Club. They should be shunned.
The price of diesel fuel would drop dramatically if the Federal government suspended the low sulphur requirements for diesel fuel.
Well, that makes two of us that understands this.
The Sierra Club should be renamed the Dirty Jungle Club.
I had to hunt around today to find diesel for under $4 dollars. Let’s drill for more oil, build more refineries, and go after shale oil while we are hunting for the magic, renewable, clean energy that can make all this work.
Vehicle fuels are becoming increasingly complex to refine as each new air quality rule requires an adjustment to refining methods — low sulfur diesel, winter vs. summer blends, boutique blends for differing metropolitan areas, etc. Our older oil and natural gas fields are becoming depleted and new ones not coming on line due to obstructionists like the Sierra Club and Governors like Richardson who never saw an environmental regulation he didn’t like.
This country has immense reserves of fossil fuels which could be profitably be brought on line if environmentalists/obstructionists would step out of the way. Examples are clean coal, coal gasification, ANWR, etc.
And, of course, the importing of most everything manufactured tilts the balance of trade away from the US, drives down the value of the dollar, and raises crude and refined energy import prices.
The liberal is continually angry, as only a self-important man can be, with his civilization, his culture, his country and his folks back home. His is an infantile world view. At the core of a liberal is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
— P. J. O'Rourke
All of that, and I forgot to change my tagline. Sheesh.
By George, I believe that you’ve solved the credit crisis! :o)
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