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<B>The Energy Manifesto</B></div> <div> <I>Obama's energy plan</I></div> <div> "The election is over.</div> <div> Now the hard work begins," wrote Dan Farber, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the lobbying group Cleantech & Green Business for Obama.</div> <div> "Change is on the way."</div> <bR> <div> Overall</div> <div> the plan calls for investing $150 billion over 10 years to create new clean-energy jobs and to cut U.S. dependence on imported oil from the Middle East and Venezuela. </div> <bR> <div> Short-term</div> <div> measures are geared at lowering gasoline prices by tapping the petroleum reserves.</div> <div> They also include a tax rebate. </div> <bR> <div> The medium</div> <div> and long-term plan calls for policies to promote renewable energy, clean-tech jobs, and energy efficiency. Specifically, the plan's goals are: </div> <div> Putting 1 million U.S.-built plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015 through loan guarantees for retooling automakers and a $7,000 consumer tax credit.</div> <bR> <div> A mandate that 10 percent of electricity come from renewable sources by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025.</div> <div> Cap and trade-based climate regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. A portion of the proceeds from auctions would go toward next-generation biofuels. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cngnow.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cngnow.com/"><IMG SRC="c63e9c40.jpg" border=0 width="233" height="196" ALT="pickens Plan CNG" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="6" VSPACE="0"></A>For many clean-tech entrepreneurs and investors, these are the sorts of policies they are seeking.</div> <div> Earth2Tech, clean-tech venture capitalists, when it is all said and done, Green Tech will be just that, Tech $'s in the fat pockets of the greedy Oil sycophants.</div> <div> I remember the 70's well and we had our chance then to make it right.</div> <div> Didn't happen!</div> <bR> <div> Just a show, like now.</div> <div> Dream on....</div> <bR> <div> Those 1 million hybrid cars by 2015 that Obama is talking about, won't mean squat, when compared to the over 120 million gas using cars that we have on our roads today.</div> <div> And by 2015, the US population would be quite a lot bigger, with even more cars on the road.</div> <bR> <div> If Barack Obama is serious about a change in the way we capture, distribute, and move energy he needs to contact the engineers at <A HREF="http://www.solartransfer.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.solartransfer.com/">solartransfer.com</A>.</div> <div> The United States has locked up vast energy resources, not just an estimated 169 billion barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf.</div> <bR> <div> There is 15.6 billion barrels of oil beneath ANWR, and 60% of that is recoverable.</div> <div> At $115 a barrel, that represents $1.1 trillion that we would not have to send to Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.</div> <bR> <div> It means lower prices and reduced risks of oil spills from tankers carrying foreign crude</div> <div> And, all that oil at ANWR is in an area in the Arctic one-sixth the size of Dulles Airport that leaves untouched a refuge one-third the size of Great Britain.</div> <bR> <div> <B>We will see how wise Obama is . . .</B></div> <div> The Fastest, Cheapest, Easiest, Renewable Fuel Supply that is ready to go, is Hydrogen, with Natural Gas as an added supply for the near future.</div> <div> Ford Motor Car Company has models read for delivery right now.</div> <bR> <div> All Obama has to do, is <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Mandate the Oil Companies</B></FONT> to send some of their <B>Record High Profits</B> to install the pumps at all the Gas Stations across America.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Exxon alone, last week set a U.S. record by posting quarterly operating profit of $13.4 billion</div> <div> <B>90 days</B> after a President <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Mandates the Oil Companies </B></FONT>to install the pumps at all the Gas Stations across America, we would be <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>FREE from all Foreign Oil Imports</B></FONT>!  <B>90 days!!!!</B></div> <div> <B>Dream on....</B></div> <div> Obama may not be that smart to fosit change on to the Oil Companies, or he may be a Fake & a Fraud like the last 1/2 dozen or so Presidents.</div> <div> Also See: <A HREF="http://www.hotv8.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hotv8.org/">The Hydrogen Freeway</A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1719794729" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1797754269&playerId=1719794729&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="c6244060.png" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars amd stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>Bush Helps U.S. Automakers</I></div> <div> The Bush administration cleared the way for distressed automakers to access up to $25 billion in loans for making more fuel efficient cars, but red tape could still constrain the flow of money.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="c6244060.png" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars amd stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>Researchers find new source of biofuel from rainforest fungus</I></div> <div> Gliocladium roseum, the myco-diesel producing fungus</div> <bR> <div> U.S. researchers have discovered a fungus deep in the Patagonian rainforest that has the potential to be used as a new source of biofuel. </div> <div> Scientists from <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Montana State University </FONT>(MSU) found that the fungus produces a number of gases normally associated with diesel fuel, which is extracted from crude oil. Named Gliocladium roseum, researchers discovered the fungus living in ancient Ulmo trees in the rainforest region bording Chile and Argentina.</div> <bR> <div> "These are the first organisms that have been found that make many of the ingredients of diesel," Professor Gary Strobel of MSU plant sciences and plant pathology said. "This is a major discovery." </div> <div> Though government agencies and private companies have shown an interest in exploiting the fungus as a fuel Prof. Strobel said there may be many difficulties in using the fungus to eventually power engines. He suggested the chief benefit the world could extract from the fungus may be in unlocking its ability to convert cellulose into myco-diesel.</div> <bR> <div> "The main value of this discovery may not be the organism itself, but may be the genes responsible for the production of these gases," Strobel said. "There are certain enzymes that are responsible for the conversion of substrates such as cellulose to <B>myco-diesel</B>."</div> <bR> <div> <B>RadioZX Editor:</B> B.F. Stoddart</div> <bR> <div> Going Green and Burning Rubber in a CNG Mustang<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>By Chuck Squatriglia</B></FONT> <B>October 17, 2008</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hotv8.com/cng_mustang.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hotv8.com/cng_mustang.htm"><IMG SRC="c648a8b0.jpg" border=0 width="650" height="395" ALT="CNG Mustang" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> Natural Gas-Burning Mustang GT</div> <div> Going green doesn't mean giving up wheel-spin-inducing, tire-shredding performance, as this 300-horsepower natural gas-burning Mustang GT proves.<IMG SRC="c6501030.png" border=0 width="1" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>German natural gas conversion specialists</I> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.greenautogas.de/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.greenautogas.de/">Green Autogas</A></FONT> teamed up with tuning haus <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.rollinonchrome.de/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rollinonchrome.de/">Rollin on Chrome</A></FONT> to prove "green" isn't synonymous with boring.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c6244060.png" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars amd stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Inside Secrets of the McCain Campaign</div> <div> Internal battles divided McCain, Palin camps</div> <div> Republican's running mate appeared to have been catalyst for infighting</div> <div>  <iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27562559#27562559" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>  </div> <div> PHOENIX - As a top adviser in Senator John McCain’s now-imploded campaign tells the story</div> <div> ON THE NET: CLICK BELOW FOR FULL STORY</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27568012" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27568012"><IMG SRC="c668c190.png" border=0 width="140" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> By Elisabeth Bumiller</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c6244060.png" border=0 width="580" height="6" ALT="stars amd stripes line" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c67dcfa0.png" border=0 width="220" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, acknowledges the crowd during an election night rally in Phoenix...</div> <div> Can Palin Resurrect the GOP?</div> <div> Does she want to?</div> <div> <B>Thursday, November 6, 2008</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ap.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ap.org/">The Associated Press</A></div> <div> By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press Writer</div> <div> WASILLA, Alaska (AP) —</div> <bR> <div> Is Sarah Palin the answer for defeated Republicans? After a historic rebuke at the polls, the Republican Party is staggering into an uncertain tomorrow with the White House and Congress in Democratic hands, no certain leader in sight and its membership divided over what it means to be a Republican.</div> <div> Ever since her selection as John McCain's running mate in late August, Palin, the 44-year-old Alaska governor, was the star of the GOP ticket, though views of her vary wildly across the political spectrum. With the Republican brand corroded and the hunt on for the next Ronald Reagan, Palin could be one of many people competing to influence Republican ideas in the post-Bush era, maybe even as the party's leader.</div> <bR> <div> "Conservatives are still looking for Mr. Right. And maybe Mr. Right turns out to be Ms. Right," said Bill Whalen, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution.</div> <div> Palin "has built-in national stature and she's beloved by conservative talk radio," Whalen said. But "does she want to be a stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home governor, or does she want to be a player on the national stage? She has to make a choice."</div> <bR> <div> She has done little to discourage speculation — begun even as McCain's campaign faded — that she could return to the ballot four years from now.</div> <div> In her hometown of Wasilla in the Anchorage suburbs, "Palin 2012" T-shirts are already for sale.</div> <bR> <div> When she returned to Alaska on Wednesday night after losing the election, she was greeted at the Anchorage airport by chants of "2012! 2012!" Asked by reporters if she might run for president, Palin said, "We'll see what happens then."</div> <div> Grover Norquist, a leading conservative and president of Americans for Tax Reform, called Palin "one of five or six people who is a plausible candidate for president in 2012," along with familiar names like Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.</div> <bR> <div> "She's in the top tier, but she's not next in line." Norquist said. Running as vice president "puts you in contention."</div> <bR> <div> Any number of other Republicans may step forward. Romney, the ex-Massachusetts governor who lost the nomination this year, has restarted his political action committee. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is heading to the leadoff caucus state of Iowa on Nov. 22 to deliver the keynote address to a conservative group.</div> <bR> <div> For two intense months, Palin was the youthful foil to the old, sometimes cranky McCain. She was called everything from an empty skirt to the real deal. McCain, in defeat, called her "an impressive new voice in our party."</div> <bR> <div> "She's somewhat of a diamond in the rough," said former Republican National Committee member Barbara Alby, who credits Palin with energizing the ticket. "I expect she'll grow from that."</div> <bR> <div> But any path toward 2012 is filled with obstacles, some of Palin's own making.</div> <div> Virtually unknown outside Alaska before her nomination, Palin revealed strong — even polarizing — views on religion, abortion and gay marriage.</div> <bR> <div> She became a favorite among some social conservatives, but her cringe-worthy performances in TV interviews raised questions about her competence and provided fodder for late-night comedians. Her charisma attracted tens of thousands to Republican rallies, but voter surveys found her presence tilted a majority of independents and moderates to Barack Obama.</div> <bR> <div> The governor who once won a Miss Congeniality prize was McCain's muscle, thrashing the media and her Democratic rivals in the conventional vice presidential role.</div> <bR> <div> Her national political persona now bears little resemblance to her image as governor, when she was known for pushing a pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska's North Slope, a bipartisan streak and taming the state's Republican establishment.</div> <bR> <div> Some see her as a possible candidate for the Senate, should a vacancy occur, which would give her a new platform for her ambitions. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was clinging to a narrow lead in a re-election bid after being convicted of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms. Palin and others have called for him to step aside, even if he wins.</div> <bR> <div> But Palin has rebuilding to do in Alaska. Voter surveys there show she remains popular, but Democrats are now more likely to view her negatively. On Wednesday, she said she hoped to show President-elect Obama how Alaska could be a leader in energy policy.</div> <bR> <div> "Everybody in Alaska is seeing her in a new light," said Jonathan Anderson, an Alaska Assembly member and a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast.</div> <bR> <div> "We knew she'd been the basketball player and beauty pageant contestant — and not too much more beyond that," said Anderson, a political independent. "She's back down with the human beings now, instead of being the star. Those things are going to follow her."</div> <bR> <div> Mike Cannon, 41, who works on tugboats and fishing vessels, remains a Palin fan but was surprised by her emphasis on conservative social values during the campaign. "I don't agree with a lot of that stuff," he said in downtown Anchorage, nursing a cup of coffee.</div> <bR> <div> The campaign, Cannon added, "revealed more and more of her limitations."</div> <div> If she wants to lead the party, she'll need to find a way to stay visible in the lower 48 states — sooner rather than later.</div> <bR> <div> "There continues to be a great deal of interest in her," said New Hampshire GOP Chairman Fergus Cullen, but "interest has a shelf life."</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ap.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ap.org/">The Associated Press</A></div> <div> By MICHAEL R. 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