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Solar chief argues for natural gas exports
With a huge fight heating up over whether to allow exports of U.S. natural gas, California solar executive Arno Harris argued that allowing exports would help the solar industry and reduce global carbon emissions. The U.S. shale-gas boom (fracking) has up-ended global energy markets, lowering energy costs in the U.S. and promising to make the […] …
Newt Gingrich: There is no fiscal cliff
Gingrich implores his colleagues to not beleaguer themselves with phony and dishonest negotiations – the failure of which will be blamed on Republicans or success credited with the failure of Republican policies. Instead, Gingrich writes that House Republicans should propose solutions they truly stand behind. …
Dianne Feinstein willing to look at mortgage interest deduction
Even as we watch the spectacle of Republicans throwing anti-tax activist Grover Norquist under the bus (it started the day after the election with House Speaker John Boehner putting revenue on the table), some Democrats are eying other sacred cows. In a telephone interview before her re-election, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she would support scaling […] …
Sen. Coburn thinks we can trim Pentagon spending — like the beef jerky research and study of tweeters’ slang
Tom Coburn, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, sees things a little differently from his colleagues on the right. He thinks the Department of Defense could save at least $67.9 billion over a decade by making cuts to DOD expenses that actually have very little to do with defense. …
Ron Paul says post-Sandy “price gouging” would’ve helped solve the gas shortage
In the ‘In Praise of Price Gouging’ newsletter, Paul argues that price gouging is “normal market response of rising prices in the wake of a natural disaster.” …
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