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Hello There, We should be using Industrial Hemp a part of our nations energy policy. I want to know when the Industrial Hemp Act H.R. 1009 that seems to be held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary; be voted on and what are the presidential candidates position on this issue. http://industrialhempthebilliondollarcrop.blogspot.com/ More
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by William Hill from Chesterfield, VA
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Hello There, We should be using Industrial Hemp a part of our nations energy policy. I want to know when the Industrial Hemp Act H.R. 1009 that seems to be held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary; be voted on and what are the presidential candidates position on this issue. http://industrialhempthebilliondollarcrop.blogspot.com/ More
Asked 5 days 2 hours ago of All U.S. Congress
by William Hill from Chesterfield, VA
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The DSCOVR satellite can answer critical questions about global warming, including whether or not it's a fantasy. It has been built and paid for but it's been sitting in a Marlyand warehouse for years. There are no plans to launch it,even though both France and Ukraine have offered to do so for free. NASA won't say why. Can you find out?
Asked by: chrisd from Columbia, MD. Received 30 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
Yeah, the Deep Space Climate Observatory is a NASA satellite that was originally proposed by then Vice President Al Gore. One of the purposes was to provide a continuous picture of the earth from 1.5 km away in space. Critics have argued that the satellite would beam, essentially, an overpriced screen saver of earth that was not the best use of NASA dollars that could be spent on perhaps more pressing matters like monitoring the climate and life sciences etc.
Answered on Jul 25th, 2008 More
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Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?
Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
We need to provide from the energy point with energy self-sufficiency. Wyoming is the No.1 coal producer in the United States. Number one in uranium. Number two for natural gas, so we've done a considerable amount for the energy need of the nation. I'm going to continue to work to make sure Wyoming is part of that picture. Also we have incredible renewable sources, like the wind. I'm working for renewables as well.
Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More
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Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?
Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)
It’s important that we once again restore America’s ability to build nuclear power plants. We’ve lost that now. We have stopped the production of these plants, so to speak, for almost two decades. So it’s time to recognize that it’s a safe form of energy. It produces nearly zero CO2 compared to a coal-fired plant. Zero. Right now, we rely on nuclear power for about 20 percent of our energy. I’d like to see in the next decade or 15 years, perhaps that 20 percent can go as high as 30 or 35 percent.
Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More
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Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?
Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)
So the point is to make coal to liquid clean and sequestration complete. It's going to take billions and billions of dollars and it has to be done by the federal government. It has to be a Manhattan project, but it's much more important.
Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More
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Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?
Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
It all comes from Hollywood, from the far left, and the ones who are the same as the extremist animal right activists and people who bomb construction sites, but it's a very well funded extreme group. That's why the politicians are inclined to act like they are supporting it.
Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More
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Can you confirm that U.S. policy in Iraq prohibits Iraqi farmers from replanting their traditional seeds in lieu of patented seeds from the west? In fact making saving seeds illegal. If so, do you think this is good policy, and why?
Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 29 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)
They produce a lot of potatoes over there, I know that. There is very little their soil is actually conducive for agriculture. They do have some irrigated ground down in the south around Basra but, you know, most of that was drained or flooded by Saddam Hussein. I don’t know if they’ve ever gotten that infrastructure back yet. Not a whole lot of agriculture takes place in Iraq. There’s a lot of desert there, so they don’t have the water infrastructure either, is the problem. I mean I couldn’t…I’m just not sure.
Answered on Jun 19th, 2008 More
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When will the federal government begin to get honest with the American people about the issue of peak oil?
Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 33 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE)
The discussion about whether we hit peak oil I think drives some of the discussion about whether or how quickly we move away from oil as the major use of our energy. It’s kind of like global warming was a few years ago. People talk about peak oil, but there’s no evidence that we’ve hit peak oil, some people think it’s right now. So it’s part of their discussions.
Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More
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Why aren't any candidates or elected officials for that matter exploring the possibilities of geothermal heat exchange given the crisis of energy we now face?
Asked by: Jeff Elder from Alexandria, VA. Received 19 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Geothermal will play a greater role. The question is how much and how soon? We are dramatically shifting investment over the next three years into renewable energy supplies for the future and geothermal is nearly inexhaustible. And is one where there are more applications than people think and it needs to be a part of a diverse portfolio.”
Reporter: “Is funding an issue?”Answered on Apr 14th, 2008 More
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