Is anyone watching Rep Bartlett on C-SPAN?

[johnaries]

I just turned on the TV, and, suprise, it was on C-Span from this morning.

This Repug idiot has lots of graphs and charts, and he is making some excellent points - except he keeps proving OUR points without even realizing it!

His big point against bio-fuel is that it is using crops that should be used to "feed the world" - my question is, why are we then paying farmers NOT to grow crops?

He points out in one part about the pollution of the Miss. River from nitrogen fertilizer, and the points out that nitrogen fertilizer comes from natural gas and how much it costs to produce.

He's trying to spin it for the oil companies, but he keeps making OUR POINTS for us, if anyone actually pays attention.....

[johnaries]

1. OK, I liked his closing....

that we can do something if we start now and make it a priority, but we have to make it a priority NOW! And we have to put the same resources into it that we did for the space program.

I disagree with his details, but I hope he helps "light a fire" under Congress on the energy issue.

[pstans]

3. Check out the Apollo Alliance

http://www.apolloalliance.org/

And there are some articles by Bartlett other people here...
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. dude...

I've heard this guy before... he's not contradicting himself so much as he's contradicting the normal repug lines...

[pstans]

2. Bartlett is a big supporter for Renewable Energy

He isn't in the pockets of the oil companies at all. Bartlett has been talking about the high gas prices, Peak Oil, and connecting it to the middle east for over a year now.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. US News & World Report talking high prices and energy shortages

From US News and World Report:

The Big Chill
A winter fuel crisis of high prices and shortages could darken homes and factories
By Marianne Lavelle


Falling gasoline prices make it easy to believe the nation has seen the last of the energy woes that swept in behind this year's Gulf Coast hurricanes. But they don't fool an unemployed woman on the Crow Indian Reservation, using the electric oven to warm her house on increasingly crisp Montana nights because her natural-gas heat has been cut off. For brickyard workers in Mill Hall, Pa., unemployment looms after the holidays, because it will be too expensive to fire the clay kilns this winter. And one retiree in a mobile home in Millinocket plans to take her asthma medication once daily instead of three times as prescribed, to save money to pay the kerosene bills that will soar in Maine's bitter cold.

With the season's first snowfall hitting the Northeast last week, it is becoming apparent that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita did far more to the nation's energy equation than spoil Labor Day vacation drives. The storms upset the already precarious balance of the nation's supply and demand for fuel. So much Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas production remains in disarray that even with a mild winter, Americans face a Big Chill: astronomical heating bills--on average, 38 percent higher than last year's record costs for natural gas and 21 percent higher for oil.

Triple threat. That means hundreds of closed factories and enormous hardship for low-income and working poor families, who can expect scant federal government help. And if bitter cold rides in on Mother Nature's coattails, extraordinary measures will be needed to keep energy flowing, particularly in the Northeast, as natural-gas shortages spill over into oil and electricity supplies. "We pray for warm weather. We have a prayer chain going," says Diane Munns, an Iowa regulator who is president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. "People are talking not just about high prices but actual shortages."

Adds Matthew Simmons, a prominent Houston energy investment banker, who has warned of a new era of scarcity: "We're headed into a winter that could be a real winter of discontent."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/051219/19energy.htm