A Resource for Energy Policy News and Discussion
Energy Policy TV has a Climate Change Channel that is being touted as as the prime source for on-demand video pertinent to issues related to energy policy climate change and the environment. I am glad to have the chance to provide a little bit of exposure for this endeavor. Video sharing sites like YouTube sometimes have videos that address these issues but they inevitably lost in a sea of pointless drivel.
I have to say that I was skeptical when I first landed there. There were those far too pretty green and yellow BP logos, and there are autoplay videos that have a whiff of fake man on the streetiness to them. After surfing around a bit more, I did come to find that the channel is in fact a broad based initiative with input from various government agencies, round tables, councils guilds and laboratories. BP, formerly British Petroleum, just happens to be a participant who paid lots of sponsorship dollars, and hence gets their logo on lots of pages.
The Channel is a wealth of video footage. The video that I found most interesting was a keynote speech by Arnold, who is the only guy in American politics who can go by one name. I am talking about impact more than content when I choose this speech as my favorite.
I think that there is soon going to be an administration that is less apt to go along with the desires of the oil industry as a matter of course. I haven’t done my homework, but I don’t think there are any former oilmen in the running for either party. There are no easy solutions for the situation that we are in, but the time is fast approaching when we will have to get to work on the hard solutions. Government is going to have to take drastic, possibly even unpopular steps to reduce pollution. I think a hefty tax on cars with engines bigger than 2.0 liters is a good first step. They should put all the money collected from that into subsidies for hybrid cars or any other efficient alternative including better public transit.
