My solar panels have produced over 300 kW hours of electricity in the month of April. And there is a company in Ann Arbor, Current Motors http://www.currentmotor.com/ , that produces electric motorcycles today. A better future can be ours.
It's one of these coincidences that happen in real life more often than in "realistic" fiction. Also, I suspect, safety practices have been more lax in the past decades.
My favorite silly remark on this, from a moderate: "It is a shame that most Americans can’t make the connection that if this is happening to the animals, think about what the effects on humans will be."
One of the things I hate about trying to ramp up domestic oil production is that what we *really* need to do is switch to other methods of energy production and storage. We've known that since 1973 or so.
Back in 1991, Sen. Al Gore was proposing an alternative energy Manhattan Project. The idea's still good.
Speaking as an amateur political scientist for a moment, I wonder if this disaster will swing Louisiana, and possibly Alabama and Mississippi to the left? There's nothing like a messy disaster on the doorstep to change people's minds. I wonder what Bill Halter's environmental politics are?
[Added later] Could we green the South? That would be something!
& now it looks like Haliburton may be partly responsible. Words fail me.
Reference chart of levels of evil: Google, the not-so-evil empire, Amazon, the medium-evil empire, Microsoft, the evil empire, Exxon-Mobile the eeeeeevil empire, Haliburton, the spawn of hell
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Date: 2010-04-30 12:03 pm (UTC)If you really want to be frightened, take a look at these
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On the brighter side
Date: 2010-04-30 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-30 03:43 pm (UTC)My favorite silly remark on this, from a moderate: "It is a shame that most Americans can’t make the connection that if this is happening to the animals, think about what the effects on humans will be."
And what are we, robots?
Re: On the brighter side
Date: 2010-04-30 05:05 pm (UTC)One of the things I hate about trying to ramp up domestic oil production is that what we *really* need to do is switch to other methods of energy production and storage. We've known that since 1973 or so.
Re: On the brighter side
Date: 2010-04-30 07:19 pm (UTC)Speaking as an amateur political scientist for a moment, I wonder if this disaster will swing Louisiana, and possibly Alabama and Mississippi to the left? There's nothing like a messy disaster on the doorstep to change people's minds. I wonder what Bill Halter's environmental politics are?
[Added later] Could we green the South? That would be something!
Haliburton, Spawn of Hell
Date: 2010-05-01 03:59 am (UTC)Reference chart of levels of evil:
Google, the not-so-evil empire,
Amazon, the medium-evil empire,
Microsoft, the evil empire,
Exxon-Mobile the eeeeeevil empire,
Haliburton, the spawn of hell