Harry Mitchell’s Curious Fundraising Climate
Some special assistance from Pinnacle West Capital came to Harry Mitchell just as the congressman was about to make his final decisions about the American Clean Energy Security Act.
Some special assistance from Pinnacle West Capital came to Harry Mitchell just as the congressman was about to make his final decisions about the American Clean Energy Security Act.
What sort of people do you think that Bobby Bright met at the offices of the Nuclear Energy Institute fundraiser that day? Do you think that there were any opponents of nuclear energy there?
While the American Clean Energy and Security Act moves too slowly, Congressman Ralph Hall’s approach would have us walking backwards, away from a solution.
If Rehberg was really so concerned about the national energy supply, what was he doing going on a drunken pleasure ride in a power boat that probably only gets about one mile per gallon, going so fast that when the boat crashed, it actually landed on top of some rocks over ten feet tall?
The head-in-the-sand resistance of politicians like Michael Arcuri to action on climate change is only helping out-of-date industries that gain their profits through the preservation of dirty, inefficient energy technologies that were invented a century ago.
We’re not likely to get the kind of action our country needs on climate change until the “commerce” is taken out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the “energy independence” interests in the select committee on global warming are shifted into a focus on sustainable energy.