When Big Corporations Do Good Things

Tommaso — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:58:49 EDT

One of the least reported but most important stories of this congress is their failure to renew the Renewable Energy Tax incentives necessary for industries such as wind, solar and geothermal to compete with the heavily subsidized death fuels (nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas). With the threato of a Bush veto and the inability to get enough votes to avoid a filibuster, the slim Democrat majority found itself in a stand-still.

Behind the heavy Republican opposition stand many of the big energy firms, from Big Oil, to large Utilities, desperately swimming against the current in order to maintain their profits in a rapidly warming world.

There is one corporation that is fighting back, and it shows a great example of how Market Capitalism can be regulated to make sure that Big Companies do Good Things.

Bush at the WIREC: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Who's In the Most Denial of All?

Kate — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:36 EDT

The United States is the only industrialized nation to refuse to sign the Kyoto protocol and has objected to a UN proposal to significantly reduce carbon emissions by the year 2020. The Bush administration has slashed budget funding for renewable energy incentives. And Bush's 2005 Energy Policy Act gave a total of $4.3 billion in tax incentives to oil companies.

Yet, at the March 5th Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, Bush looked the world in the eye and said with a straight face, “America is in the lead when it comes to energy independence; we're in the lead when it comes to new technologies; we're in the lead when it comes to global climate change; and we'll stay that way.”

The Bush administration has refused to come clean about their unwillingness to address the United States' contribution to global warming. Instead, they rely on a campaign of propaganda, false “science,” and now, outright lies. They believe that if they repeat something often enough, the public will simply accept it as truth. And they believe that the American people won't bother to check the facts.

President Bush is undermining our society's commitment to fighting global warming to the world and making us a laughing stock in the international community. And he has made it clear that he has no intention of addressing this impending crisis.

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When Big Corporations Do Good Things

Bush at the WIREC: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Who's In the Most Denial of All?