A few things [bumped]
I dig Obama. Loved his speech on Wright and racial wrongs.I feel like Hillary would make a thoroughly capable president, in a political and organizational kind of way, but I feel that we need today the kind of inspirational president that we would have in Obama to stimulate the public's engagement in the coming years of transformational projects.
I've been interested to see how much the people working on Green Jobs initiatives entwine their Green with so much of what they call social justice and pathways out of poverty. They lobby not only to create programs to put the skills needed to solve regional energy challenges into the hands of local workers, but to make sure that those would-be workers have the support they're going to need, given their often troubled circumstances.
[RBE note - I added tags on Apr 1]
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, economy, energy policy, engineering, ethanol, green, Hillary Clinton, peace, Spending
posted by Gumbinator @ 10:09 PM
1 Comments:
While I have not come out and said until now - I'm an Obama digger, too [who am I kidding, it's been obvious!]. While his plan for 80% carbon output reduction by 2020 does come from a righty-plan for having carbon emission reduced to credits, where those total credits will be cut every year, what people dont see is by squeezing industry that way, they'll be forced to come up with Green Tech to compensate...typically when these types of gaps in demand come about, either naturally through demand or artificially through government action (like the credit idea above) then it's small business that will come up with the unique solutions to those problems...there are always hiccups in that process, but the more small businesses out there that are trying to solve the emmission problem [and other green problems], the better the chance for success...and through the marketplace, those companies will be rewarded with contracts and, very likely, will then be bought out by some big company that can reduce the cost of that product by pumping it through their much larger economy of scale - you make 100,000 widgets your cost of goods invariably drops compared to making 50 widgets.
And that's only one part of it. Using government to artificially make it easier for a typical homeowner to go green can only help in the long run - reducing electricity, heating oil and natural gas usage by reducing your individual demand or replacing the energy source with something green - something even as simple as passive solar heating or even just high-efficiency water heaters can help the cause.
As my linked post on Bob Zubrin's plan states - we want to eliminate OPEC. We've got plenty of reasons to do it and plenty of ways to chip away at it.
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