Big Oil spends hundreds of millions to block clean energy

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Congratulations on the new internship Carolyn!!!

I wish you ALL the success in the world. When YOU are successful----it will mean success for everyone who lives in the USA and the world.

Please contact me about biofuels. After 100 years of cover-up, lies, and deceit about biofuels, I'd like to have the chance to set things straight.

What we desperately need right now is jobs for US workers. Big OIl is sending our money overseas to pay for a raw material that we are just going to burn.

This transfer of wealth from America to create a cash cow for a few wealthy elite is a root cause of the economic problems we face today.

Biofuels can reverse this. Not only that, we can have the energy we need, with almost no pollution, do the things we have always done, the way we have always done, in ways that are renewable and sustainable. And we can have economic and social benefits too.

We can do these things at very little expense, without tearing down everything and starting over, and we do not have to wait years for exotic and expensive technology. We can do everything we need to do with technology that we have had for many years----in some cases, a century or more.

Much of what you have been told in the press is completely bogus lies. Biofuels depend on putting food in your gas tank for instance. Did you know that we can make both ethanol and diesel fuel from waste wood and other plant waste matter? Even trash? We can, right now----and we have been able to for over 100 years. There are even more than one ways to do it. And these are not pie in the sky claims------it has been done before on a commercial scale.

Would you get excited if technology were available that could more than double the efficiency of gasoline engines. Technology that uses no expensive batteries or other untried, unproven methods? It is being done right now, and has been for many years. It isn't large SUVs that are the problem. It is large INEFFICIENT SUVs that are the problem. We can power the largest SUV with an engine the size of the smallest economy cars now on the market----and have power to spare. Using exactly the same manufacturing and parts we now use. This is not theoretical. It is being done already-----and has been for over 40 years.

Are you getting the idea that maybe we have been long and consistantly lied to that renewable energy is too expensive and would destroy everything we want to do, and the ways we want to do them? That we have to wait many years and spend billions of $$$ for research to find other ways of doing what needs to be done?

We have been lied to.

And here we are a year later after Al Gore's 10 year 100 % renewable energy speech stlll waiting for an adequate bill that meets scientific standards for Co2/GHG emissions as the Arctic continues to experience record warming. Here we still sit allowing this administration to carry on as the previous one did regarding "clean" coal and kowtowing to them by approving mountaintop removal mines. I have come to the conclusion that passionate speeches no longer mean squat if it is so easy to acqueisce to the politics of the moment. You simply cannot state you are for "green jobs" and then continue to support a bill in Congress that will continue to subsidize dirty coal in any way, or vote for a scheme that will allow them free credits and the chance to abuse the system to keep polluting.

And again, just what is a "green job?" Will it now be working at a "clean coal" facility? Because EXXON states it is working on some sort of "biofuel" does that automatically categorize their employees as having "green" jobs? Appeasing administrations simply because they are the same party as you is also not standing up to the status quo when they are the status quo. Oil and coal companies are indeed spending billions to keep people ignorant of the truth and afraid of the change that is NECESSARY instead of revealing the true damage they are doing to the planet. This then isn't the time for nice subtle ads about someone living near a windmill. This is the time to be bombarding the airwaves with pictures of what mountaintop removal does to this planet. It is time to show satellite footage of the Arctic and tell people how it will effect their lives. It is time to expose the lies of these industries that pollute and degrade our health along with this planet with no remorse and MAKE THEM PAY. And it is time to demand the kind of climate bill from this Congress that this planet needs and we deserve in order to sustain this planet for our children, and that isn't the one we currently got. Are we up to the task? Well, if we support the climate bill as it is now just based on partisan politics, we have already proven we aren't.

i agree with royulery. beat them at their own game.

BTW, what coal plant are you protesting first? Oh wait, you don't have time for that. Fluffing pillows and putting up curtains in a new "office" is so much more important. And of course, installing the phones to use to push a climate bill that is inadequate to address the planetary emergency we face. Again, do you know anything else?

i want a story not just a headline.
be that as it may, the only way to combat such a powerful enemy is not to play in their game. learn what is in the new energy market; then buy, use and promote these products.
use your gifts and start your own garage business building and selling your own energy ideas, you are as smart as anyone else. use your unique perspective and study, learn, invent and sell. patent laws are almost useless ( they don't inform or protect you) so ignore them. just buy or build the "better mouse trap" and don't let big energy play.

That's old news.

More info needed??? there isn't any other then the headlines and the job she just got.

more info please

is that all you have? that link only shows the picture.

And if you think they care about you or the planet your nuts...

Well what do you think they are going to do? Roll over and give there income away. hell no their the ones in Charge right now. No one wants to give up power. thats like saying Ok I don't want to be rich any more. They are going to fight Tooth and Nail to stay in control of things.

Well we already knew that. They need to get more vocal about this climate bill becoming stronger instead of being just another political arm of the current administration. Their ads are way too nice.

The energy bill itself has some problems of Denial. Good that they are not denying certain things but they still way to go to resolve our pollution problem. Even knowing it is incomplete, I am still supporting the Repoweramerica.org campaign with few reservations through! I wish you the best in your internship Carolyn!

The worst part is the hundreds of millions is what they took from us.