Running for Office on Climate Change?

Meanwhile in the land of cheeses

Agreed, the change was brought about by legislation, the result by technology massively applied. It is tried and tested to the point where it is off the shelf, supported by prime examples of legislation and businesses and offered by some of the major banks to other nations not so advanced and with less enlightened governments.

Over the last few years they have throttled back on their use of fracked gas (“natural gas”), shut off major money incomes and repurposed other options like solar not just for electricity but also heat supported by a comprehensive list of changes in how energy is bought and sold to the PUCs, the tax structure revised for carbon credits the simple concept that if you buy or produce dirty energy you impact the whole world and you owe it to the world to compensate for health, and other sins. But that is Holland, not America.

There are any number of clean energy initiatives, brought out with great fanfare, heavy with we should and light on the we will. Specifically in the Pacific Northwest, where Jay Inslee, governor of Washington ran for president, a set of circumstances that is not unique, but propitious, has presented any politician running for any national, state or even local office with a wonderful program that is being ignored. By rolling our natural aversion to fracked gas and it’s connection to fossil fuels, into the need for clean energy, recent actions against dairy farms for polluting through manure overspreading, the need to support our farming communities, the presence of decentralized and independent from large corporations of untold amounts of biogas for other projects like DME and methanol replacement for fossil fuel diesel a situation has presented itself that could change the climate change debate.

Keep reading on the next pages for how hydrogen edges closer to mainstream, clean natural gas from cows, from schoolyard to White House, choose your battles and allies, and more.