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Re: North Carolina's senior senator?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:10:42 -0400

Fixed. Thanks.

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Re: North Carolina's senior senator?

captsfufp — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:49:44 -0400

John Warner is BOTH in his 80s and 70s? Nice trick from the senior senator from Va...

Re: Dole: More nuclear power, domestic oil

scharrison — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:24:48 -0400

How about 3 ANWR's-worth of oil?

That's what bumping the CAFE standards up from 27.5 mpg to 35 mpg (should have been 45, but I'll take what we got for now) will represent for us by 2020: a reduction of our oil usage by 2.5 million barrels per day.

note: that's also around 900,000 tons of c02 not emitted per day...

Re: Dole: More nuclear power, domestic oil

dahedgehog — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:19:55 -0400

Back in 04, we were consuming approximately 21 million barrels of oil per day (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html). If we started drilling in ANWR today, we'd begin getting oil out of there in 9 years. After 21 years, we'd reach ANWR's peak production of 876,000 barrels per day (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542853/). So, even at peak production, 21 years from now, drilling in ANWR would expand our oil supply by no more than 4% of current consumption. Why bother?

Re: Dole: More nuclear power, domestic oil

danbesse — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:16:02 -0400

Good grief, a John Locke plant chimes in to tout "poll" results at complete variance with a consistent multi-decade pattern of results from unbiased polling organizations in our state. A strong and consistent majority of North Carolinians, especially including coastal residents, have never supported risking our natural heritage and active coastal economy just to fatten the profits of Big Oil.

Keep dreaming, friend; its tendency to believe its own extremist rhetoric is what keeps the Locke crew politically marginal in our competitive state.

Elizabeth Dole has shown her true colors by picking the economically and environmentally worst options within the energy debate to tout for next year. With any luck, she won't be in the Senate next year to promote this backward-looking agenda.

Re: Dole: More nuclear power, domestic oil

cthayes75 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:36:56 -0400

But NC voters DO want exploration and drilling off the coast of NC.
See Civitas' latest poll results on that:
http://www.nccivitas.org/media/poll-results/may-2008-decisionmaker-poll

Do you support or oppose oil and gas exploration off the coast of North Carolina?
Support 68%
Oppose 20%
Not sure 11%

None of the above

James_Protzman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:36:02 -0400

Liddy voted for a bill she knew wouldn't pass. I'm mostly glad it didn't pass. I would have given the illusion of progress with no teeth whatsoever.

Re: Dole an unlikely backer of climate bill

dahedgehog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:53 -0400

How will the initial permits be distributed under this bill? Will they be auctioned off (good) or given away (bad)? Enquiring minds want to know...

Correction

James_Protzman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:12:28 -0400

There is evidence that she was supporting "free market solutions" to the climate challenge last fall. I suppose that's something.

Hmmmm

James_Protzman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:07:55 -0400

Dole is up for re-election. Burr isn't. 'Splains a lot.

PS Ryan, just because Dole "says" she decided that climate change was real a year ago, doesn't mean it's true. I can find nothing in the record indicated that change of heart happened any sooner than the May primary here in North Carolina. It would have been more accurate to write, "U.S. Sen., Elizabeth Dole says she decided a year ago ... "

Re: Club for Growth targets Dole

dahedgehog — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:56:13 -0400

When talking about cap and trade, it is important to know whether permits will be given to polluters, or if they will be auctioned to polluters. Both are cap and trade proposals, but both have some significantly different policy implications. That information would be useful for readers to know.

Thanks

Re: Dole cosponsors global warming bill

meh17tx — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:43:12 -0400

Applause goes to Senators Lieberman and Warner for the introduction of their bill. It is a testament to the power of the grassroots movement and the growing understanding of the urgency to take action on global warming by our political leaders.

It is encouraging to see Sen. Dole support America's Climate Security Act but also encourage her to support amendments that will strengthen the bill. In order to rise to the challenge of global warming, three changes are essential. First, the bill must achieve faster and deeper cuts in pollution, which the science says is needed. Second, polluters should be required to pay for every ton of pollution they put into the air. Instead, the bill gives hundreds of billions of dollars to polluters for free, creating windfall profits. Lastly, under the bill, a company could meet its entire 2020 emissions reduction requirement through offsets. The offsets should be reduced if not eliminated.

Margaret Hartzell
Field Organizer
Environment North Carolina