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...rural areas, because decent-paying blue-collar employment is what pulls people out of poverty and into the middle class. At the same time, it's the working class that has also borne the brunt of the high energy prices that result from America's dependence on foreign oil. As the recession darkens, that double bind is likely to worsen...
...that was before this once-in-a-generation economic crisis hit. Now, with hundreds of billions of dollars in government money being shoveled towards the financial sector, with the economy in free-fall, with once-record oil prices dropping, surely the last thing we can afford is more spending to prop up green dreams...
...Power Vote campaign aims to promote energy and climate issues by encouraging voters to focus on a platform that supports clean energy, green jobs, and cutting dependence on foreign oil. The pledge also commits voters to holding their representatives accountable to the platform once in office, with prepared instructions for lobbying, phone-banking, and organizing like-minded voters...
Roll up the windows, and you can see oil derricks working on the White House lawn. But click on the center of the desk and you get the most worrisome response from the Governor: "Oh, here are the nukular codes." Just don't answer the ringing phone...
...McCain. "I haven't been asked," Crist said, before stressing that he would "do anything they ask me to." It's not as if McCain's campaign doesn't have recent examples of how the Crist-Florida bond works. Last summer, pundits predicted that McCain's call for oil-drilling off Florida's coast would alienate huge swaths of the state's generally eco-conscious electorate. But after Crist backed McCain on the subject, a majority of Floridians came onboard to the idea, provided there were sufficient environmental safeguards. The goodwill Crist built, however, has been undermined by the McCain...