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Vice President Cheney has indulged in the same kind of double-talk. When Cheney's energy plan came under fire from environmental groups, he insisted that the plan "includes 11 of the Sierra Club's 12 solutions" to the energy crunch. But even a loose reading of the plans shows at most three similarities. The Sierra Club, for example, wants the country to use nonhydro renewables such as wind and solar power for 20% of its energy by 2020. Cheney, by contrast, aims for only 2.8%. "If Bush really believes these plans are similar," says Sierra Club president Carl Pope...
...point customers may have to shell out as much as $2,000 for a replacement. "People are not willing to pay extra money for fuel economy in the U.S.," says Rich Marsh, who heads GM's hybrid-truck program. That's why GM plans to market its hybrid GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickups, due out in 2004, not on their tiny 2-m.p.g. improvement in fuel consumption but on the benefits of their onboard electric generators and standard outlets for plugging in power tools...
...committees Green Cup, Enviro-Ed and the Sierra Student Coalition, along with People for Animal Welfare, the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative, and Project Health ran the Earth Day events...
First, the bill bans soft-money contributions to political parties but it does not restrict soft-money from going to special interest groups such as the Sierra Club. This means that more money will now flow to these groups which have much looser contribution restrictions than political parties and which are far less accountable to voters than political campaigns and parties. The bill will forbid political organizations from airing “issue ads” for 60 days preceding elections. Presumably, this rule will effectively prevent large unions and corporations from excessively bashing those candidates who oppose their interests...
...you’re multicultural enough to be curious about the inhabitants of the country that exists between the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachians, then you’d better hope you make a friend who’ll teach you how to sing “Ain’t Going Down (Till the Sun Comes Up)” while you’re doing 90 on the Mass Pike...