Posts tagged with 'energy'

Blue Candidates Going Green? At Least Some of Them

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 10 2008 02:20 PM | PERMALINK

Or: Why I Just Spent $12 Paying for Barack Obama's Carbon Footprint

They jet across the country in private planes with the frequency of regular pilots. They drive gas-guzzling, pollution-emitting busses across our nation while they pander for votes. And they tell us Global Warming Matters.

And only some of them are putting their money where there mouth is.

It was big news early this March when John Edwards announced that not only was his campaign going carbon neutral, so was his house - a McMansion...
Plant-Gate

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, NOVEMBER 15 2007 11:25 AM | PERMALINK

You probably saw CNN's exclusive last night that a College Student came out to say that she was asked to ask Hillary Clinton a specific question at a talk she gave on energy in Iowa earlier this month. Oh the tears, the betrayal. Of course staging in politics is nothing new- why does George Bush like to give talks at Army bases? Can't get a more controlled, disciplined audience than that. The question itself was pretty inocuous- "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global...