Your Questions About Green Living

Cadidate X or Candidate Y?

Candidate X Promises and Plans:
1.)Establish a $10 billion Foreclosure Prevention Fund
2.)Provide $10 billion in Relief for State and Local Governments
3.)Hardest-Hit by the Housing Crisis to Prevent Cuts in Vital Services.
4.)Extend and Expand Unemployment Insurance
5.)Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families
6.)Eliminate Income Taxes for Seniors Making Less than $50,000
7.)Simplify Tax Filings for Middle Class Americans
8.)Fight for Fair Trade
9.)Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement
10.)Improve Transition Assistance
11.)Invest in our Next Generation Innovators and Job Creators
12.)Double Funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
13.)Invest In A Clean Energy Economy And Create 5 Million New Green Jobs
14.)Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies
15.)Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs
16.)Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank
17.)Invest in the Sciences
18.)Make the Research and Development Tax Credit Permanent
19.)Deploy Next-Generation Broadband
20.)Provide Tax Relief for Small Businesses and Start Up Companies
21.)Create a National Network of Public-Private Business Incubators
22.)Ensure Freedom to Unionize
23.)Fight Attacks on Workers’ Right to Organize
24.)Protect Striking Workers
25.)Raise the Minimum Wage
26.)Protect Homeownership and Crack Down on Mortgage Fraud
27.)Address Predatory Credit Card Practices
28.)Reform Bankruptcy Laws
29.)Work/Family Balance
30.)Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities

Candidate Y Promises and Plans:
1.)Workplace Flexibility
2.)Relief for Families
3.)Government Reform
4.)Supporting Small Businesses
5.)Cheap and Clean Energy
6.)Better Healthcare
7.)Simpler and Fairer Taxes
8.)Lower Barriers to Trade
9.)Expanding Domestic Oil And Natural Gas Exploration And Production
10.)Taking Action Now To Break Our Dependency On Foreign Oil By Reforming Our Transportation Sector
11.)Investing In Clean, Alternative Sources Of Energy
12.)Protecting Our Environment And Addressing Climate Change: A Sound Energy Strategy Must Include A Solid Environmental Foundation
13.)Promoting Energy Efficiency
14.)Addressing Speculative Pricing Of Oil
15.)DC Personal Protection
16.)The Confiscation of Firearms After an Emergency
17.)Cut The Corporate Tax Rate From 35 To 25 Percent
18.)Seal the Pork Barrel
19.)Stop the Revolving Door and Restore Ethics
20.)Democracy is Not for Sale
21.)Excellence, Choice, and Competition in American Education
22.)Comprehensive Immigration Initiatives for a Secure Nation

Economy Help?! Obamas Plan!?

•Create or save more than 3.5 million jobs over the next two years;

•Take a big step toward computerizing Americans’ health records, reducing medical errors, and saving billions in health care costs;
•Revive the renewable energy industry and provide the capital over the next three years to eventually double domestic renewable energy capacity;
•Undertake the largest weatherization program in history by modernizing 75 percent of federal building space and more than one million homes;
•Increase college affordability for seven million students by funding the shortfall in Pell Grants, increasing the maximum award level by $500, and providing a new higher education tax cut to nearly four million students;
•As part of the $150 billion investment in new infrastructure, enact the largest increase in funding of our nation’s roads, bridges, and mass transit systems since the creation of the national highway system in the 1950s;
•Provide an $800 Making Work Pay tax credit for 129 million working households, and cut taxes for the families of millions of children through an expansion of the Child Tax Credit;
•Require unprecedented levels of transparency, oversight, and accountability.

i Was Reading This From A Website To Take Notes For my Project And Half The Stuff Here I Do Not Understand.

Please Help!

Is this the Brother-In-Law Effect?

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law
11:00 AM, SEP 29, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada.

The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes project, near Tonopah, Nevada, will use the sun’s heat to create steam that drives a turbine, the agency said today in a e-mailed statement. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California.
On SolarReserve’s website is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”
But wait… there’s more! One of SolarReserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity:
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors.

Mitchell served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra.
And for good measure, it’s also noteworthy that Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis:
Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. He is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes it corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company.

Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from from stimulus funds.
Tom Carnahan is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan.
It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.

Is this the Brother-In-Law Effect?

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law
11:00 AM, SEP 29, 2011 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve:
SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project in Nevada.

The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes project, near Tonopah, Nevada, will use the sun’s heat to create steam that drives a turbine, the agency said today in a e-mailed statement. SolarReserve is based in Santa Monica, California.
On SolarReserve’s website is a list of “investment partners,” including the “PCG Clean Energy & Technology Fund (East) LLC.” As blogger American Glob quickly discovered, PCG’s number two is none other than “Ronald Pelosi, a San Francisco political insider and financial industry polymath who happens to be the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.”
But wait… there’s more! One of SolarReserve’s other investment partners is Argonaut Private Equity:
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Solyndra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that also lists Mitchell among its board of directors.

Mitchell served on the Solyndra LLC Board of Directors. He also serves as Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, a company that invested in Solyndra through the LLCs parent company. After Solyndra declared bankruptcy, two Democratic members of the U.S. House asked that Mitchell testify about Solyndra. Though he has not appeared before Congress, he has “been asked to provide documents to Congress” pertaining to Solyndra.
And for good measure, it’s also noteworthy that Obama is about to hold a big money fundraiser at the home of Tom Carnahan in St. Louis:
Carnahan, a member of the prominent Missouri Democratic family, has been tapped by the Obama campaign as its chief Missouri fundraiser. He is chairman of the board of Wind Capital Group, a wind energy company that makes it corporate headquarters in St. Louis. He formerly was president and CEO of the company.

Last year, Wind Capital’s Lost Creek Farm facility in northwest Missouri received a $107 million tax credit from the Treasury Department, among many such wind operations receiving support from from stimulus funds.
Tom Carnahan is the son of former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan and former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan. He’s also the brother of current Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan.
It’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.

Would it not be more effective to eliminate carbon tax and cap trades and use the capital for innovation?

The carbon trade doesn’t make a dramatic impact on cutting carbon emissions in my opinion. I think we need to slowly drive up the cost of using fossil fuels through taxes. Then instead of letting a company sell of carbon credit to another company, essentially causing the same aggregate quantity of pollution companies should use that capital to make their business and surrounding environment more green. I feel that amount of capital use to buy products and invested in green energy companies can be utilized to foster innovation to assist in gravitating our nation and economy to a more green, carbon free, and less pollution direction. I understand the initials cost would be extremely high but innovation and investments now would slowly cripple the costs. Portugal produces 45% of their energy from renewable energy provided the Portugese paid twice as much for electricity for the last 5 years.