We didn't want this occasion to pass quietly by. The American Values Alliance blog has been in operation for two years, emerging in its present form on 31 July 2006 as a forum for discussion of the political, social and cultural news of the day.

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Al Gore is an idiot or an egomaniac. He really thinks that saying we can easily replace all of our fossil fueled energy needs with wind and solar in ten year. NO WAY IN HELL is that possible.

Let's take a very superficial look at how we use fossil fuels:

cars
trucks
trains
planes
asphault for roads
fertilizers for crops
industrial processes like:
steel making
glass making

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Interesting suggestion from economist and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder:

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Several comments and thoughts on the two shows that aired the 23rd & 24th.

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Stop with the push for ethanol production, already. Over a year ago, reports indicated that only a small percentage of corn yields could go into ethanol without impacting prices in food markets. Certainly I wasn't the only one who heard those reports?!

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Have you seen the commercials? Have you visited his website? T. Boone Pickens the oil tycoon is going to save us all from the bad old oil companies..........wait a minute? What's wrong with this picture?

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Just 49% of Republicans say there is evidence of global warming.

And people ask me why I left the GOP....

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Millions displaced. Over 40,000 lost in China and 134,000 dead or missing in Myanmar. Since these tragedies first struck, I've been trying hard to find something to say here. I wanted to rail about the Burmese government's xenophobic resistance to foreign assistance.

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Motivated by soaring prices at the pump, record numbers of commuters are parking their cars in favor of mass transit.

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So Hillary challenged Congress to say whether they are "with me or against me" (shades of George W. Bush!!)on her widely disparaged "gas tax holiday" idea--an idea she shares with John McCain, if not with any reputable economist.

Mark Udall, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee from Colorado, promptly issued a press release. Was he with her? Um...not so much.

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At the end of a lengthy post at Open Left, exploring the impediments we face in trying to tackle global warming, Paul Rosenberg provides an important insight, to wit: One of the simplest ways of explaining the concept of hegemony is "ideology in drag as common sense."

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While I'm busily putting together the text and audio from today's event to share with you, I thought I'd start with an open thread for those of you who were in attendance to post your thoughts and observations from the Barack Obama Town Hall Meeting.

More to follow!

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Global warming, climate change, carbon footprint, Al Gore, Greenhouse gases, solar flares, OH MY!

Isn't it all a bit confusing? What is really happening? Is the earth's climate really changing? Well, duh! Do we really truly know why? Absolutely not!

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Here in the US pundits posit that Gore is mislead, confused, seeking plaudits, or just plain wrong. The people in the rest of the world, however, see our reluctance to take a strong stand in efforts to curb global climate change caused by human pollution as unfathomable.

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Though we like to ignore the elephant in the room, global climate change effects us in Indiana. In addition to our tendency towards obesity (we tied Michigan for 9th most obese state), high smoking rates and low academic attainment, we're a polluter.

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