by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
The headline of my local paper today is Obama: Act on clean energy. (But a different headline online - do they do that just to mess up bloggers?) In the speech the President paid homage to President Carter's efforts to change America's energy policies, saying, For...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog
"The moral equivalent of war." Tonight President Obama will talk about the Gulf oil catastrophe, and, hopefully, overall energy and climate policy. A look back at President Carter's fight over energy brings some context to this situation. On April 18, 1977, 33 years...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 14, 2010 | Blog
Today the country is looking for ways to cut spending and borrowing. Yet military spending, the biggest spending item in the budget, is barely part of the discussion -- obviously because of the amount of campaign and lobbying dollars it generates. The corrupting...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 11, 2010 | Blog
After all this time China is still manipulating its currency, the Obama administration is still not able to get them to change, their exports are still rising relative to the rest of the world, global imbalances are still bubbling out of control, jobs are still being...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog
The United Steelworkers (USW) and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today announced a a joint ‘Framework Agreement’ to create a 'Partnership for Progress' to accelerate the development and deployment of wind energy manufacturing in the U.S. Denise Bode, CEO...
