[2. Buy local, local, local. Purchasing food and other items made locally means buying products that have used less gas to be taken to stores.] The major sources of emissions in this country are transportation and electricity production, ... If you're eating locally grown food, there's less transportation involved in taking that food to you. |
An arrangement like this sends a very good signal about the industry. |
Even if climate advocates defy the odds and manage to break through the congressional impasse, it's all but inevitable that Bush is going to veto whatever they manage to push through. |
For vehicles right on the bubble, they can bump them over. |
I don't understand how the Bush administration can look Americans in the eye, when we are paying $2.75 a gallon and we are shackled to Middle East dictators, and say we can't do better when we know we can. |
In the post-Katrina new energy reality, I think there is going to be a full court press, as it should be, that gas needs to get to market, |
It's inevitable that unless we come up with some kind of labor solution, projects will begin to be deferred. |
It's not bumper-to-bumper; it's wheel-to-wheel. |
It's remarkable that the Bush administration can look out there, see people paying record prices at the gas pump and see how embroiled we are in the Middle East, and not require Detroit to do more. |
The big problem is we did not make the right decisions 10 years ago. |
The clock is collectively ticking on both these projects. |
The fact that we haven't gotten a sound energy policy is the reason why they've gotten this epiphany. They're asking Americans to conserve, but they're not asking the same from the auto industry and the oil industry. |
The major sources of emissions in this country are transportation and electricity production. If you're eating locally grown food, there's less transportation involved in taking that food to you. |
There's no easy solution, but we have to work to attract new people to come and work in the sector. |
This window is closing, November is fast approaching. You can only hold out for so long before you realize you could jeopardize the deal, |