That push poll John Zogby did to “show Obama voters didn’t know who they were voting for”, well he is outraged anyone would question him and won’t do the same poll with Republican voters: Pollster John Zogby has rejected a conservative commentator’s offer to sponsor a poll to test the knowledge of people who voted […]
This is a huge victory for the environment: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. The dramatic intra-party showdown for the coveted position signals a leftward turn […]
That’s what it seems like the Republicans are heading for – a policy of saving white collar jobs, while letting blue collar workers hit the unemployment lines: Top Republican senators said Sunday they will oppose a Democratic plan to bail out Detroit automakers, calling the U.S. industry a “dinosaur” whose “day of reckoning” is coming. […]
Pelosi is putting forward a plan that really sounds good: Pelosi said the auto industry funds would come with many strings attached, including restructuring company finances, meeting new standards for gas mileage and requiring advanced technologies “to compete in the domestic and global market.” The speaker’s office offered no specifics about what the new fuel […]
That’s what this inventor is claiming and it sounds awesome: Edward Furia says the electric car technology his Bellevue-based firm, AFS Trinity Power Corp., has developed could end the United States’ dependence on oil. AFS Trinity’s prototype sport utility vehicles can go 40 miles on a single charge from a standard electric outlet, at which […]
A car that runs on compressed air! How long before the oil and auto industry tells us how dangerous compressed air is to the environment? You know that will be coming, or them saying that it costs too much in fuel to power a compressor to fill the car (which I incidentally have a compressor […]
While Bush strummed people drowned. While Bush ate cake people had fearful waits on their roofs while as the flood waters rose. Bush’s inactions in the wake of Katrina’s devastating landfall will be remembered for a life time. His other inactions and the inactions of the Republican run Congress will be felt for a life […]