Thursday, October 18, 2012

Revkin and Obama agree: It's extremely important for *other* people to use less fossil energy

Obama and Romney on Oil and Science - Revkin - NYTimes.com
Obama got it right by insisting that cutting demand through policies aimed at energy efficiency and the next generation of energy technologies had to be part of a long-term American energy (and oil) agenda  [Hey Andy:  Can you give me some specific examples to show how you and Obama are cutting your own personal use of fossil-fueled energy?]
Flashback: Obama's SUV-Laden Motorcade Demonstrates His Climate Change Hypocrisy - Peter Roff (usnews.com)
I was outside, watching. And counting—counting from where I stood the Chevy SUVs and the vans that made up the motorcade.

I counted 11, none of which had any signs identifying them as hybrids or flex-fuel vehicles, plus an ambulance, idling, engines running while the president ate his vanilla custard with hot fudge and nuts on top. There may have been one or two more, spewing what the president and his supporters would call "greenhouse gasses" into the atmosphere. I'll leave it to someone else to figure out the carbon footprint it put down while sitting at the curb but I think it is fair to note that these are the same kind of SUVs that members of his party like to portray as gas-guzzling environment killers that have no business being sold.
Flashback: Revkin continues to behave as if he doesn't actually believe in his own alarmism: Now he jets off to the Philippines

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