Saturday, March 20, 2010

Energy and Environment

EPA's Lisa Jackson Is at the Center of Obama's Climate Change Policy

The EPA administrator has moved quickly to undo Bush's environmental legacy

Posted March 31, 2009

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energy

If the government was serious about energy it would set up an infrastructure fund that would loan money to build the infrastructure necessary to convert our energy needs to hydrogen and nuclear. Natural gas is the stepping stone to hydrogen, and nuclear will be a long term technology leading to fusion. As I said; if the government was serious it would make the investment. Money is not the issue. It's the energy companies mixed with the politicians who want to drag out the process. Make the investment and keep pumping money back into the program as the private companies payback the government on the investment and we can have what we want in less than 50 years. I will be gone by then but my grandchildren will reap the reward.

lisa jacksons experience

her experience is in garbag dumps and now head of something she has no clue about.it's time to clean washington out and put people in who arent advocates or pushing for something they believe in without facts of which global warming is a lie.

Its all crap

You cannot have electricity without oil, even if you use wind energy, you still have to run the normal sorce of energy as backup, you cannot shut it down its has to run full time in order to stay on track. its a never ending cycle

Electric Car

Does it matter if the car runs on gas or electric. Dunce head. We provide electricy by oil. Since, our housing need burns up all of our alternative energies, then one must assume that the additional electricy need to produce enough energy for the billions of car to run on daily, that it will come from gas..or oil to be exact. The only advantage is that we should be able to scrub the fumes cheaper than the cars do. How ever I argue that that will also be a wash. So, the last advantage of the electric car is that as alternavtive fuels become more available they all will be able to be converted to electric.

Which is a huge advantage. But the only question is rather or not it can be done on a bipartisan bases ...the answer is no way. Dems, republicans, and our departmental governments agencies have all I think to be proven to be corrupt...at best.

So, you want electric. Vote American. Vote Independent.

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the truth of the matter is that our government could operate on half of the tax it collects. Maybe it does? So, why so greedy. Kerry kooks or crooks is a good question. Ask those of the big dig. We need to fire them all. Dems and Reps. and put someone in there that will cut our governmental blood red dollar bleading. StoP the oozing. Vote American. Vote Independent.

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whoever said Obama is a commie is apparently a moron. you first call him a socialist, and its not good enough for you after he tried to tackled the health care reform which most other president wouldn't touch. you now call him a commie, what are you thinking? how about you be the president? na, i doubt you will even pass the local election because you a nobody.

There is some many things going wrong with people today!!!

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMENT YOU EVER READ IN YOUR ETIRE LIFE ABOUT AUTO INDUSTRY HOW INCAPABLE ARE TO COME UP WITH MORE ECONOMIC CAR ALTHOU IT HAS BEEN DONE MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO READ IT YOU WILL BEAMAZE.

The car of the future runs completely on electricity. No more dependence on gas. No more

choking the atmosphere with fumes. Whenever the possibility of electric cars is raised, the media

and other commentators ooh and ahh over the potential. But this technology isn't futuristic — it's

positively retro. Cars powered by electricity have been on the scene since the 1800s and actually

predate gas-powered cars.

A blacksmith in Vermont — Thomas Davenport — built the first rotary electric motor in 1833

and it to power a model train the next year. In the late 1830s, Scottish inventor Robert Davidson

rigged a carriage with an electric motor powered by batteries. In his Pulitzer-nominated book

Taking Charge, archaeology professor and technology historian Michael Brian Schiffer writes

that this "was perhaps the first electric car."

After this remarkable achievement, the idea of an

electric car languished for decades. In 1881, a

French experi-menter debuted a personal vehicle

that ran on electricity, a tricycle (ie, three wheels

and a seat) for adults. In 1888, many inventors in

the US, Britain, and Europe started creating threeand

four-wheel vehicles — which could carry two

to six people — that ran on electricity. These

vehicles remained principally curios-ities until May 1897, when the Pope Manufacturing

Company — the country's most successful bicycle manufacturer — started selling the first

commercial electric car: the Columbia Electric Phaeton, Mark III. It topped out at fifteen miles

per hour, and had to be recharged every 30 miles. Within two years, people could choose from an

array of electrical carriages, buggies, wagons, trucks, bicycles, tricycles, even buses and

ambulances made by numerous manufacturers.

New York City was home to a fleet of electric taxi cabs starting in 1897. The Electric Vehicle

Company eventually had over 100 of them ferrying people around the Big Apple. Soon it was

unleashing electric taxis in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. By 1900,

though, the company was in trouble, and seven years later it sputtered out.

As for cars powered by dead dinosaurs, Austrian engineer Siegfried Marcus attached a onecylinder

motor to a cart in 1864, driving it 500 feet and thus creating the first vehicle powered by

gas (this was around 25 years after Davidson had created the first electro-car). It wasn't until

1895 that gas autos — converted carriages with a two-cylinder engine — were commercially

sold (and then only in microscopic numbers).

Around the turn of the century, the average car buyer had a big choice to make: gas, electric, or

steam? When the auto industry took form around 1895, nobody knew which type of vehicle was

going to become the standard. During the last

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