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How Not to Deal With Climate Change

Posted June 30th, 2016 at 11:32 am (UTC-5)
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why would a state ostensibly concerned with climate change turn away from its largest single source of clean energy? The answer, as is perhaps obvious, is the ideological insistence on renewables and an irrational fear of nuclear power.  

Germany and the U.S. have Different Ideas About Energy

Posted May 26th, 2016 at 5:10 pm (UTC-5)
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Germany is in the midst of a large-scale, government-driven energy transition toward renewables….The U.S. has also favored renewable energy with tax incentives and other subsidies, but the effort has been modest compared with Germany’s….So which country is doing a better job of shifting its energy mix?

America’s Never-Ending Oil Consumption

Posted May 16th, 2016 at 11:23 am (UTC-5)
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The United States accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but it consumes about 20 percent of the global energy supply. The average American citizen uses nearly two times as much fossil fuel as a person living in Great Britain….But politicians seem wary of telling Americans they need to cut back.