As governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken the lead in fighting global warming. Now comes word that Ah-nuld could help to terminate global warming once and for all in a Barack Obama administration.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an interview aired Sunday that he would be open to the idea of serving as energy czar in a Barack Obama administration.[...]
A Schwarzenegger appointment would add even more star power to a hypothetical Obama administration, and would allow Obama to make an appointment from across the aisle that would not upset his core supporters.
Yeah, it certainly wouldn't upset this core Obama supporter! I love this attitude:
"It's hypothetical," he added. "I'm always ready to help in any way I can, the United States. I've committed myself to be a public servant. I said to myself, 'This country has given me everything. It's my time, now - I'm through with the acting and all of those things that I've done, body building."Even though I love all of those things still, for me, it's important to give something back, do my work without getting paid and give something back, no matter what I do. If I have this position or not, I will be traveling around the world and I will be promoting [energy independence], renewables, solar, windmills, ... protecting the environment, protecting the oceans."
Wait a minute, protecting the environment is more important than body building and acting? Maybe there is hope for the world after all. :)
After the mess Republicans have created, we should trust none of them to clean it up.
France has some rule or is planning on a rule to limit the operating age of nuclear to 40 years. That's like telling mortgage noteholders, you know what, you'll have to forgive all your 30-year fixed notes 25. If that is true, its not a fiscal plan in favor of nuclear expansion for France, if you ask me.
In Germany & Poland, both heavily coal dependent, the coal industry is trying to defeat changing sentiment for nuclear by ramping up CCS technology. Two demonstration plans just signed up to take place on sizable generators, one like 400MW and other nearly 600MW. American corp. Fluor was just selected on the larger plant.
About two months, a national plan was passed in Poland pushing, it to the head of the pack, internationally, in terms of proposed CCS implementation.
(Sorry no links, Platt's password not on this computer)
On a linguistic note, I wish that we (politicians, newspapers and television news programs that adopt the cute little phrases coined by the politicians, and the rest of us) would stop using the word "czar" when talking about appointing a person to a new government position in order to deal with complicated or seemingly intractable issues. Word and names can be important in subtle ways, and the word "czar" gives this citizen the "willies" when used to refer to an official appointed by a democratically elected President. Just a thought...