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Going through the news I found this article on "smart" grid power-

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_bi_ge/us_smart_grid_abridged

comments please.

The Capitol Power Plant, a 99-year-old facility that heats and cools the hallowed halls of Congress, still burns coal and accounts for one-third of the legislative branch’s greenhouse gas emissions. For a decade, lawmakers have attempted to clean it up.

In recent years, Congress has reduced its energy consumption. The steam and chilled-water power plant has become more efficient. It now burns more natural gas and only 35 percent coal, compared with 49 percent in 2007.

But Congress is running out of options to make the plant fully green. On Friday the House announced that it was abandoning its goal to be carbon neutral and would no longer buy offsets to make sure it was removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it releases. Those offsets were key to zeroing out the remaining emissions at the power plant that could not be reduced by other means.

So if Congress is abandoning its carbon swap program, how can it force business and you and I to do the same thing?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_go_co/congress_power_plant;_ylt=AumTlMDkZUZj5h3Tttmu94uyFz4D

House shifts billion toward renewable energy!
Republicans called it a "no-energy bill" because it lacks new drilling incentives, and they derided the new emphasis on renewables as "green pork." The White House threatened to veto the bill on concerns that it could boost energy prices.

Didn’t Bush say that the USA is addicted to oil and needs to find alternate energy sources? Or was he just refering to ethanol?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070805/pl_n…

(sorry if this is a repeat, I posted it in the wrong category)

On Yahoo! Finances for every stock there is of course the "change" which is sometimes green or red or pointing up or down. What does this mean exactly?

I hate the eviroment and I want to see it burn. How can I make my home into a tree killing and energy sucking machine?
Of course I am a very unimportant celebrity who really likes environmental issues, just like the other celebrities on yahoo answers. Except in a different way. I have starred in no movies, no plays and written no scripts and have directed a great number of movies (which happens to be zero.) This is also a shout out to my fans. I love you, and I would not be anything with out you.

House shifts billion toward renewable energy!
Republicans called it a "no-energy bill" because it lacks new drilling incentives, and they derided the new emphasis on renewables as "green pork." The White House threatened to veto the bill on concerns that it could boost energy prices.

Didn't Bush say that the USA is addicted to oil and needs to find alternate energy sources? Or was he just refering to ethanol?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070805/pl_nm/usa_energy_house_dc_3