Comments on: Obama’s clean energy pivot goes awry http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/06/16/obamas-clean-energy-pivot-goes-awry/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: justmeint http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/06/16/obamas-clean-energy-pivot-goes-awry/comment-page-1/#comment-8428 justmeint Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:48:51 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=4031#comment-8428 What is needed are energy systems that are inexpensive, clean, and self contained, do not rely on fossil fuels and can be developed and maintained locally. You think I am dreaming I can feel that in my bones! Yet over the past (give or take ) hundred years or so, scientists, inventors and various curious people, have developed ideas and innovations, that would help us move totally away from our reliance on the presently accepted norms of oil, coal and gas – aka ‘fossil fuels’. Consider the work of Nikola Telsa and Stanley Meyer for starters! If our governments are sincere in their attempt to reduce carbon emissions, and also reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, then why have they hidden this information from us? It is known that they have had knowledge of most of these innovations and scientific discoveries for a very long time. How do you define ‘sincerity’? Or better still can you say ‘sincerity’ and ‘government’ in the one breathe? An oxymoron! http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/define-sincerity.html What is needed are energy systems that are inexpensive, clean, and self contained, do not rely on fossil fuels and can be developed and maintained locally. You think I am dreaming I can feel that in my bones! Yet over the past (give or take ) hundred years or so, scientists, inventors and various curious people, have developed ideas and innovations, that would help us move totally away from our reliance on the presently accepted norms of oil, coal and gas – aka ‘fossil fuels’. Consider the work of Nikola Telsa and Stanley Meyer for starters!

If our governments are sincere in their attempt to reduce carbon emissions, and also reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, then why have they hidden this information from us? It is known that they have had knowledge of most of these innovations and scientific discoveries for a very long time. How do you define ‘sincerity’? Or better still can you say ‘sincerity’ and ‘government’ in the one breathe? An oxymoron!

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]]> By: Gotthardbahn http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/06/16/obamas-clean-energy-pivot-goes-awry/comment-page-1/#comment-8401 Gotthardbahn Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:32:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=4031#comment-8401 If this whole Gulf mess is like a slow motion train wreck with, as Mr. P points out, ongoing negative consequences for Mr. Obama, then it is hardly surprising that the president would seek to deflect attention away from this disaster. What better way than to fill the air with a lot of green platitudes and rosy visions of a green future. The fact that all these proposals not only do not work - see European experience with cap 'n' trade, &c. - such policies actually kill jobs and result in lasting economic damage. The average American voter may not know the difference between CO and CO2, but they DO know when they're being sold a bill of goods. If this whole Gulf mess is like a slow motion train wreck with, as Mr. P points out, ongoing negative consequences for Mr. Obama, then it is hardly surprising that the president would seek to deflect attention away from this disaster. What better way than to fill the air with a lot of green platitudes and rosy visions of a green future. The fact that all these proposals not only do not work – see European experience with cap ‘n’ trade, &c. – such policies actually kill jobs and result in lasting economic damage. The average American voter may not know the difference between CO and CO2, but they DO know when they’re being sold a bill of goods.

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