Don’t know how we could have missed this. Holiday season and all. NPR to the rescue! Here’s the new carol from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: “Frosty the Coalman.”

We have Steven Chu, Energy Sec., Lisa Jackson, EPA, Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality, and Carol Browner, energy czar. Not an oil (wo)man in the mix. This is a horse of a different color. They want to cap greenhouse gasses, and move to renewable fuel. What does the energy industry think? There’s a bull’s [...]

In an effort to actively combat global climate change in his administration, Obama named John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco as two of his chief science advisers. Since the two are “leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government action,” it is expected that their ideas in policy form could have serious implications for [...]

In light of Obama’s new news on possible plans for infrastructure, technology stocks like Cisco, Ciena, and Akmai, could be a new Obama stocks as discussed on CNBC’s Fast Money. Also on his list of sectors for improvement is alternative energy, a topic that has been covered in detail many other times on this website. [...]

An amazing thing happened today. Financial media all noticed that there was an election going on, and there might be some impact on stocks. Amazing! There are two reasons why this story has been left behind: 1) The crisis in financial markets has created stock movements that overwhelmed any bump that one might get from [...]

McCain jumps through a lot of hoops to appear different from the current Republican president, but his terrible judgment regarding the G-8 takes it much too far. His actual choice would be to exclude Russia from the G-8 because lately their government has been centralized through less than democratic means. This begs several questions. First [...]

It seems that almost every day there is an editorial urging John McCain to relieve the American people of their high gas price burden. But rather than an endorsement of his gas tax vacation, the average conservative citizen is urging McCain to drill for domestic oil. If he indeed decided to drill for more oil [...]

McCain in not a Dubya clone when it come to his current views on global warming. He says that the US should adopt mandatory curbs on greenhouse emissions, and spur technological innovation in the field. “The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington,” he said, speaking at a Portland training facility [...]