Some thoughts on how to get climate change legislation during a recssion. It's the economy...again. For bush it is an excuse for no action on climate and more tax cuts for his corporate crony contractors.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/1/17/141151/026#15
Economic decline
Good point ce, if the economy declines, it already is in freefall, politicos will dodge the GHG issue. Bush is wanting a stimulation now. For all his favorite contractors and energy companies? Yep.
"Free" market free falling economy. As gas prices keep snuffing out any revival before it starts. And the housing industry keeps dropping off the cliff because of the (hedge fund created) mortgage crisis. As tax breaks keep on being doled for corporations to outsource jobs.
So how to get around this? Couple the energy revolution with lower gas prices, kwhs are around 75 cents for eqivalent miles per gallon of gas. make jobs in Detroit building millions of plugin hybrids for government service, federal, state, and local.
Have big energy projects like FDR did, instead of building a power dam, build a huge wind farm out on the prairie. And big conservation projects, carbon sink wetlands and prairie restoration and dangerous flamable dead wood buildup clearing (and recycling) in forests.
Link economic recovery to renewable energy and conservation. I ski past the old CCC (Civilian conservation corps) camp buiding foundations everyday. Jobs created by FDR's programs.
Hillary talks about diverting subsidies for big energy to renewables and conservation. She will do it like FDR did. With money in people's pockets, paychecks for a job well done. That is the best stimulus package. And climate disaster energy policy.
Giving more leverage over life on planet earth to hedge funds through "free" market trading of carbon or oil or the atmosphere or the oceans... is not going to be helpfull.
Think Costanza.."The Human Fund... Money for people", rather than multinational gamblers and bush kleptocrats.
Yes
Like that Pan, more of that. Geo heat exchange has the potential GHG savings of a very large portion of 36% of total GHG emmisions. Power the circulation and heat pumps with a renwable smart grid and storage of clean solar, wind, and other clean kwh in the form of heating and cooling is added. And even more than 36% might be saved?
How so? Well the solar and wind and other renewable sources and grid installed will replace a larger and larger portion of other GHG sources as well. Plugin hybrids strategically charged to store more power, and all other grid power uses supplied by the entire, completed grid eventually.
Make sure all contractors for these projects only hire legal workers at fair wages. Those are good jobs. make all the devices here in the uSA, revive our economy just like WW 2 war production did. The anti-GHG-war to end all oil wars. That's the bumpersticker slogan.