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John McCain's Energy Policy - Campaign 2008

John McCain Commerical

John McCain talks about Ethanol

*  FactCheck: Oil independence will take 25 years, not 5 years. (Dec 2007)
* Climate change is real; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=laketahoefun-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=nuclear+power%26index=blended"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.alternativeenergyhq.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" title="" rel="external">nuclear power</a><img class="amazon_image" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=laketahoefun-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> is solution. (Oct 2007)
* Public pressure on oil industry to invest in alternatives. (Oct 2007)
* FactCheck: nuclear plants do emit no GHGs, but do have waste. (Jun 2007)
* Reinvest oil profits in nuclear power. (Jun 2007)
* Ethanol made no sense in `05 but with $60/bbl it makes sense. (May 2007)
* Strength Clean Air & Water Acts; but not Kyoto. (Jan 2000)
* Supports alternative fuels, emission controls, & CWA. (Jul 1998)
* Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (Nov 2005)
* Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)
* Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
* Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
* Voted NO on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)
* Voted YES on targeting 100,000 <a href="http://bizrock.wamabam.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=ALTEHYD"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title="hydrogen fuel cars"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.alternativeenergyhq.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" rel="external">hydrogen</a>-powered vehicles by 2010. (Jun 2003)
* Voted YES on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)
* Voted NO on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
* Voted NO on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
* Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
* Voted YES on defunding renewable and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=laketahoefun-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=solar+power%26index=books"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.alternativeenergyhq.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" title="solar energy info" rel="external">solar energy</a><img class="amazon_image" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=laketahoefun-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. (Jun 1999)
* Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
* Voted NO on do not require ethanol in gasoline. (Aug 1994)
* Rated 17% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence. (Dec 2006)
* Supports immediate reductions in greenhouse gases. (Sep 1998) 

Energy Tags: solar energy, energy resources

I rounded the north corner of the field when I spotted farmer Jacob on his new, green John Deere. I slowed my van up to almost a walking pace and eased it to the side of the road. I waiting for Farmer Jacob to arrive so I could inquire what my friend had just been planting.

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Energy Tags: wind power, battery technology

Election year 2008 - Race to White House

Where do the candidates stand on energy policy? It is so important for our next President to not repeat the mistakes of the last eight years with regard to energy. We can no longer go fighting for oil in order to salvage our energy woes. The next President will need to have a firm grip on energy policy and in a best case scenario they will be on board with a strong alternative energy policy.

We are bringing you a look at the various candidates and how they stand on energy policy for the future of our country.

Our coverage:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton - D
• Barack Obama - D
• John Edwards - D (dropped out of race)
• Dennis Kucinich - D (dropped out of race)
• Mike Gravel - D

• John McCain - R
• Rudy Guiliani - R (dropped out of race)
• Mike Huckabee - R
• Mitt Romney - R (dropped out of race)
• Joe Biden - R
• Ron Paul - R
• Duncan Hunter - R
• Alan Keyes - R

Be sure and get out and vote come election day! Make sure your voice is heard on Energy in America.

There is lots of talk about making our homes more energy efficient and adding solar to existing structures. Well John Kosmer discovered that this was not the way to go and to prove it he built his own house using passive solar to prove it. Nice work john. We need good examples to look up to in this day and age. Too many folks are willing to talk but you have walked the walk.

For $2.50 a day he can heat his 4000 sq foot home. Yikes that rocks. It gets cold where he lives.

From John's site

A Real Example of Solar Energy Savings Not to put too fine of a point on it, on Dec. 1, 2007 it was 17 degrees outside at 8:00 AM in Fly Creek, NY. The auxiliary heat provided by our state-of-the-art propane Baxi Luna 3 boiler cycles on at 68.5 degrees and off at 68.7 degrees. In our home at that time the thermostat read 68.7 degrees, so the Baxi unit must have recently cycled off. It was partially sunny all day. By 1:30 PM (five and a half hours later) the thermostat read 74 degrees and the temperature outside was 19 degrees. By 5 PM it was 11 degrees outside and the thermostat read 68.5 degrees so the propane Baxi boiler turned on again. In a day of partial sun when it was 19 degrees, we used no energy to heat our 4000 sq. ft. home for 9 hours. If it would have been sunny all day, the home would have heated up to 75 or 76 degrees and more heat would have been stored in the concrete slab thermal battery. The combined higher room temperature and warmer slab would have slowed down the fall in temperature in our home another 2 hours or so, thereby delaying the Baxi boiler from starting until about 7PM, enabling us to use no energy to heat our home for about 11 hours.

Energy Tags: energy resources, solar power

Go Green or Go Home 2007

AlwaysOn GoingGreen 2007 Set to Create Industry Benchmark for Greentech Events AlwaysOn GoingGreen 2007

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Over seven hundred greentech professionals, venture capital and private-equity investors, and leading members of the press and blogging community will convene at University of California, CA from September 10 – 12 for the inaugural AlwaysOn GoingGreen 2007 event. Thousands more worldwide attendees are expected to participate ‘virtually’ as GoingGreen 2007 will be simulcast live from www.alwayson.goingon.com. This two-and-a-half-day executive event will features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of this event is to identify and debate emerging trends, build high-level relationships and create new business opportunities for all greentech professionals.

Some of the distinguished panelists and speakers will include:

Nicole Biggart, Dean, UC Davis Graduate School of Management Barry Klein, Vice Chancellor, UC Davis Office of Research Ed Ring, Editor, EcoWorld William McDonough, Architect & Author "Cradle to Cradle" Susan MacCormac, Partner, Morrison & Foerster Raj Atluru, Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Samir Kaul, Partner, Khosla Ventures Ray Lane, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Bill Green, Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners Moderator: Keith Johnson, Director Public Equity, Stanford Management Company Dennis Merens, Director North America, Dow Venture Capital Group John Sylvia, Partner, Texas Pacific Group Judson Hill, Managing Director, The Halifax Group Yair Cohen, Vice President, Elron Industries Ltd. Ajit Nazre, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Michael Kanellos, Editor at Large, CNet Ron Hicks, CEO, Perform Wall, LLC Michelle Kaufmann, Michelle Kaufmann Designs Lyndon Rive, Founder & CEO, SolarCity Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials Peter Hanschen, Partner, Morrison & Foerster Robert Walsh, President, LS9, Inc. Glen Nedwin, Chief Scientist, Dyadic John Melo, CEO, Amyris Biotechnologies Steven Perricone, CEO & Co-Founder, BioFuelBox, Inc. Michael Horwitz, Partner, Pacific Growth Equities Hunt Ramsbottom, CEO, Rentech, Inc. Frank Alix, CEO, Powerspan Corp. Joseph Culley, Managing Director, Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC Jeff Green, CEO, NanoH2O David Crowe, CEO, GeoPure Water Technologies Glenn Rink, President, AbTech Industries, Inc. Marc van den Berg, Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners Tim Healy, CEO & Founder, EnerNOC Ken Oshman, Chairman, Echelon Corporation Paul DeMartini, Director Edison Smart Connect, Southern California Edison Louis Szablya, EVP & Managing Director, Utility Division, Gridpoint, Inc. Wayne Spittal, General Manager, Derceto Eric Wesoff, Greentech Media David Vieau, CEO, A123 Systems Saroj Sahu, CTO & Founder, Deeya Energy Alan Gotcher, CEO, Altair Nanotechnologies R.D. Titus, Director & Producer, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Daniel Elliott, CEO, Phoenix Motorcars Tom Gage, CEO, AC Propulsion Steve Schneider, CEO, ZAP Ian Clifford, CEO, ZENN Motor Company Nancy Pfund, Managing Director, JP Morgan John Woolard, CEO, Bright Source Energy, Inc. Kevin Bolin, CEO, Enertech Environmental Darren Bouton, Manager, Sustainable Communities, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Andrew Hargadon, Chancellor's Fellow, UC Davis Chandrakant Patel, Hewlett Packard Fellow Rockwell Bonecutter, Managing Partner, Accenture Data Center Technologies Peter Van Deventer, CEO, Synapsense Corporation Robert Johnson, CEO, Environmental Support Solutions, Inc. Jeff Lipton, Managing Director, Jefferies & Company, Inc. Steve Eichenlaub, Managing Director, Cleantech Investments, Intel Capital Keith Casto, Partner, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold Tom Martin, Senior Vice President, PCG Asset Management Chris Sorrells, Managing Director, NGP Energy Technology Partners David Scott Lewis, SVP, Zytech Solar Pankaj Dhingra, CEO, Nanostellar, Inc. Michael Pak, CEO, Nanoexa, Inc. Jonathan Hoopes, Managing Director, Greentech Research, Think Equity Ray Rothrock, Managing General Partner, Venrock John M. Fedorko, Senior Vice President, Airtricity John O'Donnell, EVP, Ausra

In addition to engaging panels and lively debates, this two-and-a-half-day executive conference will feature CEO presentations from the hottest and greentech companies in the world. For a complete list of CEO Showcases visit: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/6393.

For information on how to register and take advantage of our discount rate, please visit: http://alwayson.goingon.com/ecom/productview/7539.

Energy Tags: alternative energy, energy resources