WalkScore.com is teaming up with Transportation for America to gather an online petition to support alternative transportation in the 2009 Transportation bill in Congress.
Transportation for America has a strong vision for national transportation policy: build world-class rail-based mass transit, repair and maintain the highways and bridges we have, and improve our health by [...]
Archive for the ‘energy policy’ Category
Support alternative transportation
Posted in all politics is local, bicycle friendly, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, neighborhood, transportation policy, urban renewal, vision, tagged bicycling, transportation, transportation policy, walking, walkscore on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Goals for a greener Independence
Posted in bicycle friendly, energy policy, municipal services, renewable energy, vision, tagged alternative energy, geothermal, photovoltaic, renewable energy, two-way metering, wind turbine on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two of the greatest issues of our time will collide in the near future: the global climate crisis and the end of widely-available fossil fuels. We must have a sensible strategy to avert the coming climate crisis while ensuring our ability to grow and prosper economically.
Renewable energy at the municipal level is a grass-roots approach to [...]
The path forward for energy policy
Posted in all politics is local, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, tagged CFTC, commodities, futures trading, Michael Greenberger, NYMEX, speculation, West Texas Intermediate, WTI on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As several news reports have indicated, the notion is gaining steam that speculation in the U.S. commodities market has had an inflationary effect on oil prices. The current conventional wisdom is that 70% of the oil trades are made by financial players. If commodities speculation has taken center stage, the spotlight is on loopholes such as the notorious “Enron [...]
