For real change to happen on energy policy, we need federally mandated energy portfolio standards, including one for clean coal, with big teeth and no safety valves. It will cost what it needs to cost in order get clean energy and we’ll all adjust to this new reality accordingly. Our newly minted President Obama has arrived in Washington at a time in our history when the country if open to changes, even big changes. Time will tell if the man from Yes-We-Can can turn his mandate into a Yes-You-Will for the energy industry.
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Juan Enriquez has some practical advice for the new administration and for all of us. We can indeed crawl our way out of the economic hole we’ve dug for ourselves. Provided we throw away the shovel and change our ways. Good luck to all of us!
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One day back in mid 2006, the CEO of the $10 billion energy firm I was working for let it be known that carbon was keeping him up at night. Carbon as in carbon dioxide – CO2 – a notorious member of the greenhouse gases gang. CEOs of other large power companies started making [...]
Kudos to Thomas Friedman and his “Why How Matters” op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. As the crushing volume of analyses, assignments of blame, and prescriptive cures regarding our current economic troubles bears down upon us, look no further than Friedman’s brief article and a book published 167 years ago for a root cause [...]
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