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Obama's Energy and Environment Team Includes a Nobel Laureate, Veteran Regulators

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The finest team going the wrong way is still disaster. The push for a stimulus of the economy, especially for more science, will get us into a deep pit of ever increasing debt (interest on debt) and be unproductive and ineffective. God warned against debt, charging interest, and insurance because they produce an oppressive system of bondage.
Looking for green technology and pollution reduction does not make sense mathematically. Using polluting energy and people driving back and forth to work to create windows in sky scrapers that do not allow fresh air in or let hot air out for natural air conditioning fights against the very system we are trying to correct. Solar advantages would be wiped out with one volcano spewing ash into the atmosphere. More planes will cut the sunlight. We are going the wrong way. The goal is not employment and until we realize that we will continue to go into debt to increase employment.
Barack Obama is not advocating freedom from energy costs, he is advocating bondage to domestic energy costs. Evidence has shown we cannot trust that. The truth of freedom and deliverance is in getting back to nature, even in the city. Pets that give milk and eggs have more security than pets you have to buy food for. Trees and plants with food give freedom that supermarkets, transporting vehicles and processing plants can not give. Jesus said, "When you have food and clothing, be content" Why? Because the rest is easy to deal with, people can open their homes to others if they have plenty of food. We do not need great employment stimulating plans and debt; we need to be humble enough to get out of our expensive, flashy and sexy clothes to dig in the dirt. We just may find it extremely liberating and full of excitement and hope.

Marie Devine of NV 9:27AM February 11, 2009

Obama's Energy and Environment Team need to consider different ideas. Reducing carbon emissions to 1990 levels may not be the answer; we were still polluting ourselves to death then. Now we have more nations doing the same thing.
Things of nature emit carbon dioxide. NOVA had a program that showed that if the sun were a little brighter, it would cause more carbon dioxide and you would literally be able to watch things grow. The word of God says there will be a time when the sun and moon will be seven times brighter. Before that time, the wind will be stopped and the sun will only shine a third part of the day. That does not fair well for wind and solar technology. In Missouri I am already noticing not as many full sun days even in the summer.
If the NOVA program is correct, cutting the carbon dioxide without replacing it somewhere could cause a detriment to growing trees and plants leading to a loss of vegetation. Could that have happened to other planets? ("There is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes, the words of Solomon)
The main problem could be that the intense heat caused by our concentrated heating in cities and factories etc does not have time to cool enough to be harmless to the atmosphere. Now we are heating our homes when we do not need to, multiply that by hundreds of thousands and you have a major concentration of heat going into the atmosphere. I am not a scientist; but I know God does not create things that are bad for us. Barack Obama's energy and environment team need to take another look at the data with these ideas in mind.

Marie Devine of MO 7:23PM January 04, 2009

There is no real change in Obama’s choices for cabinet positions. He “formally named the rest of his team: physics Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu as his Energy Secretary; Lisa Jackson as his Environmental Protection Agency Administrator; Nancy Sutley as his chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; and Carol Browner as assistant to the president for Energy and Climate Change, a new post.”
Our solutions are found in the scriptures and are prophecy written on the United Nations' building:
Isaiah 2:4: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they shall learn war no more."
If we turned from our employment lifestyle that causes stress, pollution, disease and high health care costs, global warming, wars, energy crisis, food crisis, reoccurring financial crises, crime and social security insufficiencies, we would not need a global warming policy and energy and climate change green jobs and expensive projects to employ the people. We would not need the president-elects other promises of universal health care, social services like welfare and pre-kindergarten child care and social security would not be necessary.
The "New Deal" of past recessions caused the lifestyle that has created our world problems. There is no wisdom in getting deeply into debt to create more of a destructive and dangerous lifestyle. We do not need more science or a new post; we need understanding that we are going the wrong way and we need real change to a retirement lifestyle where we create a garden paradise with all our needs met in beauty and abundance in our neighborhood. We need true freedom and independence that is fair and available to all people. We need an environment that does not break down and need to be repaired with massive amounts of tax money. We need the change we expected, something that would make our lives easier.
Barack Obama will not prosper us by borrowing big economic stimulus packages for new forms of energy for climate protection. It would still take polluting energy to create them. We will still be working away from families, buying insurance for autos, health and homes, buying energy from domestic suppliers, dealing with daily stress of child care, college tuition, sons in military, and conflicts over abortion, marriages, and religion. There is no change in Barack Obama's energy and climate-environment team.

Marie Devine of MO 9:14PM December 28, 2008

Excellent article.
Over the years, energy conservation improvements have increased the average energy efficiency of residential, commercial and industrial to about 75%. However, the transportation sector is 20% efficient; and electric power plants are 33% efficient. There are 250 millions of motor vehicles and thousands of fossil power plants burning billions of tons of coal, billions of barrels of oil, and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
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- Energy Efficiency: Motor vehicles and power plants improvements reduces United States’ energy needs by 40%.
- Environmentally: Carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by one billion metric tons to 1990 level by 2020 and five billion metric tons or over 80% by 2032.
- Economic: Manufacturing million of hydrogen and electric motor vehicles and upgrading thousands of fossil power plants creates tens of million of jobs.
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Norm Hansen of IL 4:22PM December 21, 2008

The choice of Steven Chu for DOE head is a good one. Certainly the fed labs will take-on a more front & center role in R&D helping to beat the drum for energy efficiency and renewables.
I was kind of thinking that NJ was tapped out for EPA leadership, since Christy Whittman was last czar. I was actually hopeful that Katie MacGinty from Rendell's PA adm. would be selected (she has done a laudable job in PA), but that's not for me to propose.
It would be nice to somehow actually COORDINATE these two departments for a change. While energy & environment have been at odds in the past, it would be good for the U.S. to see them on both on the same page working together.

Al Koenig of PA 9:19AM December 14, 2008