Hey, you guys!

Good points here: Work with Congress to create reasonable guidelines, don't let the EPA create the game and the rules.


The electric company shows you the truest words that you ever heard anybody say

THE United States Chamber of Commerce's campaign against climate-change legislation is causing an exodus of electric utilities that don't want to be associated with a bunch of troglodytes who deny scientific and economic reality. ThinkProgress reports that Exelon, the largest utility in America, is the latest to leave; Pacific Gas & Electric and New Mexico's PNM quit the Chamber last week. Matthew Yglesias wonders why the rest of America's businesses are still so stubborn on the climate-change front, unlike business leaders in Europe. I think it partly has to do with specific incentives for different businesses, but part of it is due to political dynamics created by America's two-party system and our penchant for Manichaean thinking. It's not surprising that electric utilities