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Oilman T. Boone Pickens has a commercial running about our oil consumption. In it shows where we have come from and where we are going. If his facts are correct, then it is amazing and alarming in how we consume energy and export our wealth in this country. The commercial also leaves me wondering where Pickens is going with this? I found this copy of the commercial on YouTube.

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Here is a very informative view on the economic, environmental, and national security crisis.

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Our dangerous over reliance on carbon based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges. The economic, environmental, and national security crisis. We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to buy it in ways to destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.

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Do you know Yahoo offers commuting benefits for employees who organize carpools, ride bikes to work and take company shuttles to and from offices? Yahoo rewards these commuters with free lunches, massages, movie tickets,  and other benefits. Yahoo even hired a “employee transportation coordinator” to come up with more incentives.

In this time of concern over global warming and rising gas prices, it’s good to see a large company like Yahoo offering employees incentives for being being green conscious commuters.

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Read the full press release here (PDF, 108KB).

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Do you know the North Pole could be ice free this summer? Today the Independent is reporting: Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole - Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change

The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.

Meanwhile National Geographic has reported: North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer

“I would say the ice in the vicinity of the North Pole is primed for melting, and an ice-free North Pole is a good possibility,” Sheldon Drobot, a climatologist at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado, said by email.

Arctic warming has become so dramatic that ice covering the North Pole may melt this summer for the first time in history, according to scientists in the field.

Of course there are those who do not believe Global Warming is not real. Thank you for visiting Expressing Opinions.

As I surf around the web I have noticed more stories about wind power being used or it’s uses being explored by communities, states, and countries, for example an ambitious wind power program from Spain. Today I while reading through a few technology articles, I came across one about wind power off the shore of Delaware at Rehoboth Beach.

In the CNN.com/Technology article: Wind farm to be built off Delaware shore

Using electricity generated by the wind, “Delmarva Power will be able to light about 50,000 homes a year, every year” for the duration of the 25-year contract, Lanard said, with first power expected by 2012.

In another article from Engadget: Rock Port, Missouri celebrates being “100% wind powered”

We’ve seen a number of locales pipe in quite a bit of energy from eco-friendly sources, but the community of Rock Port, Missouri is claiming to be 100-percent wind-powered. The gloating is due to four wind turbines erected on agricultural lands within the Rock Port city limits, and while the town is expected to consume around 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year, the aforesaid turbines will produce 16 million kilowatt hours.

It is good to see another source of energy being explored and utilized. Oil dependence and the pollution oil brings to the environment has went on for long enough. I would rather see wind generation stations than see oil derricks and pumps.

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GOP stands for Gas and Oil Party. I think that pretty much sums it up. Now the piece of sh*t Bush wants to allow more drilling in places previously off limits.

CNN reports: Bush asks Congress to clear way for offshore oil drilling

“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a Rose Garden statement.

Bush also renewed his demand that Congress allow drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, clear the way for more refineries and encourage efforts to recover oil from shale in areas such as the Green River Basin of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Bush said that the basin potentially contains more than three times as much recoverable oil as Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves, and that the high price of oil makes it profitable to extract it.

The key word here is profitable. Not that more oil will lower the price Americans pay at the pump, but it will provide more profit for that piece of sh*t Bush and his oil cronies.

What about conservation and alternatives to oil? Instead the re”thug”licans want us to continue our dependence on and use of oil while continuing to contribute to global warming. Bush and McCain are perfect examples of what is wrong with country and Americans should rid themselves of this kind of wannabe leaders.

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What are you doing for Earth Day? You are already recycling, right? Are you driving less and consolidating trips? Have you switched to energy saving compact fluorescent light bulbs? These bulbs are getting cheaper to buy and retailers like Costco’s is offering very good prices. In the long run, you will be saving more than money.

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Tomorrow is Earth Day. What are you going to do?

This photo and caption is from the BBC’s Day in Pictures. When I saw it I thought the smog really made the blue in the photo stand out. That air is really dirty, I would not want to be an athlete competing in a city with such horrendous pollution.

Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre, known as the Water Cube, where swimming events will be staged during the Olympics, is seen lit up with the National Stadium in the background.Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre, known as the Water Cube, where swimming events will be staged during the Olympics, is seen lit up with the National Stadium in the background.

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