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...billion deal to buy the U.S. Sugar Corp., including 187,000 acres (75,677 hectares) of farmland that once sat in the northern Everglades. If the deal goes through, it will extinguish a powerful 77-year-old company with 1,700 employees and deep roots in South Florida's coal-black organic soil. It will also resurrect and reconfigure a moribund eight-year-old Everglades replumbing effort that is supposed to be the most ambitious ecosystem restoration project in the history of the planet...
...Sachs' article should be required reading for every Senator and Representative in this great country - before it's not great anymore. The one point that really blows my mind is that the U.S. in 2006 spent $3.2 billion on energy research - nuclear, wind, coal, solar and biofuels - while the Pentagon spends that much in about 40 hours. Howard Sandt, Big Stone...
...solve the energy crisis, Jeffrey D. Sachs says President George W. Bush "dithered for eight years instead of investing in new technologies for a sustainable planet" [June 9]. This year alone, the Bush Administration will dedicate more than $5 billion to research, develop and promote technologies including low-emission coal, renewables, nuclear power and vehicles powered by advanced biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. More than $40 billion in loan guarantees will help put such technologies to use. The President's 2009 budget calls for nearly $1 billion in public and private investment for the world's most ambitious program to demonstrate...
...solve the energy crisis, Jeffrey D. Sachs says President George W. Bush "dithered for eight years instead of investing in new technologies for a sustainable planet" [June 9]. This year alone, the Bush Administration will dedicate more than $5 billion to research, develop and promote technologies including low-emission coal, renewables, nuclear power and vehicles powered by advanced biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. More than $40 billion in loan guarantees will help put such technologies to use. The President's 2009 budget calls for nearly $1 billion in public and private investment for the world's most ambitious program to demonstrate...
...Sachs' article should be required reading for every Senator and Representative in this great country - before it's not great anymore. The one point that really blows my mind is that the U.S. in 2006 spent $3.2 billion on energy research - nuclear, wind, coal, solar and biofuels - while the Pentagon spends that much in about 40 hours. Howard Sandt, BIG STONE...