http://www.wikio.com/search=Carl Pope Wikio - Carl Pope http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69480448 Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, said on a “Politics of Green” panel discussion this week in Denver that climate policy aimed at increasing energy bills is critically flawed: “I actually think if we deal with global warming in a way which raises people’s energy bills, we will have blown it.“ You can watch it [...] Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:58:06 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69480448 2008-08-29T21:58:06Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69461581 Denver -- Forty five years ago, I heard the first great speech of my adult life, standing on the Mall in Washington, DC, when Martin... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:34:36 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69461581 2008-08-29T20:34:36Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69324606 Denver -- Last night when Hillary Clinton moved to make the nomination of Barack Obama unanimous, it was clear (as it was when she made... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:52:08 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69324606 2008-08-28T19:52:08Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69302653 Oil man T. Boone Pickens and Sierra Club President Carl Pope spoke to a group of bloggers and independent media gathered in the Big Tent at the Democratic Convention (Wednesday) about plans to address the energy crisis and reduce dependence on foreign oil. Both say politicians need to get moving now, before the crisis turns to a catastrophe and the oil man has a plan. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69302653 2008-08-28T16:01:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69291095 T. Boone Pickens, Carl Pope and John Podesta walk into a big tent. OK, OK, the "isn't it weird that these guys agree?" joke is getting a little tired, so I'll cut it here. But the best take I've heard so far came from the Sierra Club's Carl Pope himself at a panel with Pickens the oil man and Podesta from the Center for American Progress. Pope said that the fact that the three of them were on the stage meant that something was wrong with the government -- that if there was anything that the three men with divergent views on nearly everything but energy could all agree upon, it should have been acted upon long ago. The star of the panel was, of course, Pickens. He said he'd met with Obama, McCain, Gore, Bush and others about his plan to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, or as he put it -- to stop "the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind." He said President Bush asked him who could lead the way -- and Pickens responded "George Patton." The joke was lost on the crowd of bloggers -- or maybe just not well-received, as Podesta, a former Bill Clinton chief of staff, pointed out that some in the crowd may have been skeptical of Pickens and his donations four years ago to the Swift Boat Veterans who slammed John Kerry. Patton, a World War II general, is of course dead. But the point Pickens was trying to make was that the government needed a "general" -- someone who would be able to take orders from the president and get things done. "Tell 'em, 'There's the hill; take the hill,'" he said. Pickens' TV ads have been running far and wide, but he said that NBC refused to run a recent ad that said Iran was switching cars to natural gas in order to sell more expensive oil to the U.S., and that the U.S. was doing nothing about it. According to Pickens, NBC wouldn't run the ad because Pickens couldn't provide proof that the U.S. was doing nothing. Here's the ad that didn't run on TV: Find more videos like this on PickensPlan A couple of other Pickens highlights from the panel: Pickens on offshore drilling: "This isn't about the oil industry wanting to drill offshore -- they don't think anything's there, just look at what they did and didn't lease when the western gulf tracts were offered up." Pickens on Obama's plan to put one million hybrid cars on the road: "One million plug-in hybrids is nothing. We've got to get a hundred million." Pickens on global warming: "Global warming is on page two for me." He elaborated, saying that first the idea was to reduce the dependence on foreign energy here in the U.S. Pickens on people telling him his plan sounds so simple they can't believe it hasn't already been done: "Nothing is simple when you get to Washington." For more Huffington Post coverage from the Democratic National Convention, visit our Politics @ the DNC page , our Democratic Convention Big News Page , and our HuffPost bloggers' Twitter feed , live from Denver. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:25 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69291095 2008-08-28T15:11:25Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69217257 DENVER -- DNC attendees were treated to a strange sight this afternoon -- Texas oilman (and major GOP donor) T. Boone Pickens sharing a stage with Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope and Center for American Progress president John Podesta . The event was staged earlier today at The Big Tent, the eco-friendly makeshift structure located near the Pepsi Center that serves as a gathering place for bloggers and new media journalists. Pickens' appearances here are part of his effort to build support for his ambitious "Pickens Plan," which seeks to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil through investments in wind power, solar power and natural gas. Speaking in his folksy Texas drawl, Pickens emphasized that he was not pushing his plan in order to enrich himself. "I'm not doing this to make money," Pickens said. "Whatever I make from this will go to my estate, and all of my estate will go to charity when I go." Pickens emphasized the non-partisan nature of his effort, noting that he has met with John McCain and Barack Obama . "I'm totally non-partisan on this," he declared, drawing applause from the audience. "It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with America." Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:57:54 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69217257 2008-08-28T00:57:54Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69212340 By David Roberts I'm here at an panel on the Pickens Plan, featuring Carl Pope of the Sierra Club, John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, and T. Boone himself. (And I have internet access!) Most interesting tidbit to come from the panel: T. Boone had a 30 second commercial that began, "Iran is moving its vehicle fleet to natural gas so it can sell oil to us at $140 a barrel. And we're doing absolutely nothing about it." NBC rejected the ad! They said, "can you prove we're doing nothing about it?" (I've tried to find the commercial online -- I'll post it if I can track it down.) Otherwise, there were no fireworks -- mainly because the session was never opened up to questions from the audience. I know lots of people were geared up to ask aggressive questions -- the green left is in an uproar about Pickens. They think he's constructed his entire plan as a triple-bank-shot attempt to make more money from water rights and ... I don't know, a bunch of other stuff that makes him Satan. See here . I have trouble getting worked up about it. The first thing Pickens said is that he's given $700 million to charity over the last five years, and that when he dies his entire estate will be donated to charity. "This isn't about making money." Now, maybe he's lying. Maybe he wants to make more money ... so he can give more to charity? Maybe he's lying about giving money to charity? But the notion that he would go through this elaborate, baroque effort to make money, when he has so much money already, and so many opportunities to make more money when he wants ... it's just not plausible to me. Pickens also said nice things about climate change and Gore -- he said it's "on page two" for him, and he'll work on that once he reduces the oil imports, but he's not a denier, he's not working against climate change solutions. He's also dialed down the natural gas stuff a bit -- now he's mainly pushing it as a substitute transportation fuel for the truck shipping fleet, which turns over quickly and could be shifted to nat gas much more seamlessly. (Also, trucks aren't really amenable to electrification, without much better batteries.) The point I'm getting around to -- and the panel just reinforced this for me -- is that it seems perfectly sensible for Carl Pope and other enviros to be opportunistically taking advantage of Pickens' money and his high profile to be driving smart energy policy. Pickens' plan is one among others -- Gore's plan, CAP's plan. The point is to build a head of steam, to build momentum behind the notion that we need a plan . As Pickens said, "a fool with a plan will beat a genius without one every time." I'd go even farther: I've seen Pickens speak several times now, and each time he seems a bit softer, a bit more mellow, and a bit happier. I tend to think doing good work is good for his crusty old soul. He's finding out that people he's long thought of as evil Socialist whatevers are actually good, smart, pragmatic people, willing to work with him toward common goals. Doing work to unite people is having a salutary effect on him, and it seems to me we'd be smart to encourage that, make a model of it, rather than rejecting it and him out of old animosities and weird conspiracy theories. It is not good political strategy to erect high walls around your issue and keep people out. I am sick of purity tests. Yay for T. Boone! (Warning: I'm exhausted from very little sleep and may be slightly punchy. I reserve the right to completely change my mind about this tomorrow.) Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:15:27 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69212340 2008-08-27T23:15:27Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69185144 What is making this week so intense that I literally didn't have time to post yesterday is not the formal work of the Convention --... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:55:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69185144 2008-08-27T19:55:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69060798 I wrote last week about my disdain for Democrats and environmentalists who have been foolishly praising T. Boone Pickens lately. After explaining why liberals should... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:09:18 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=69060798 2008-08-26T21:09:18Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68964053 By Kate Sheppard "The message 'You're too close to Big Oil' will trump the message 'I'm for drilling off the coast' every time." "The oil wing of the Republican party is like the mafia or the Crips or the Bloods -- once you get in you can never get out." -- Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, on the recent defeat of Rep. David Davis (R-Tenn.) after his opponent accused him of being beholden to Big Oil, and on the politics of Big Oil on the Hill in general. Pope appeared at The New Republic 's panel on "The Future of Environmentalism." Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:37:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68964053 2008-08-26T03:37:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68924595 Denver -- That's clearly the underlying message as this convention opens. The coal industry has "clean coal" billboards everywhere. Last night's Green Jobs reception by... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:50:40 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68924595 2008-08-25T19:50:40Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68632939 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:03:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68632939 2008-08-22T16:03:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68501127 This is the Sierra Club’s official statement praising Ms. Pelosi’s latest non-energy energy plan. This statement leaves no doubt what Ms. Pelosi’s goal is in offering another version of the DRILL Act. Statement of Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director “No one is more committed to clean energy solutions than Nancy Pelosi. “The upcoming debate in Congress [...] Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:51 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68501127 2008-08-21T14:07:51Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68330277 WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a Bush administration rule that blocked states from stricter monitoring of air pollution from oil refineries and power plants. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68330277 2008-08-20T07:01:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68263900 Sierra Club President Carl Pope has one word for Democrats: Energy. The environmental organization endorsed Sen. Barack Obama early on for president, and Pope will be on hand at the Democratic National Convention in Denver rallying Democrats around key environmental issues. Chief among them will be energy issues. “If the slogan in 1992 was ‘it’s the economy, stupid,’ this election, the message is ‘energy is the economy, stupid,” Pope said in an interview with NewWest.Net. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:41:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68263900 2008-08-19T20:41:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68270446 Sierra Club President Carl Pope has one word for Democrats: Energy. The environmental organization endorsed Sen. Barack Obama early on for president, and Pope will be on hand at the Democratic National Convention in Denver rallying Democrats around key environmental issues. Chief among them will be energy issues. “If the slogan in 1992 was ‘it’s the economy, stupid,’ this election, the message is ‘energy is the economy, stupid,” Pope said in an interview with NewWest.Net. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:09:53 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68270446 2008-08-19T20:09:53Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68159768 For decades, the Southern Company has run roughshod over the health and welfare of its customers with uncontrolled, dirty, coal-fired power plants. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:37:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=68159768 2008-08-18T21:37:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67973643 Guest Commentary : More drilling is just a scare BY CARL POPE Minuteman Media Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 URL: http://www.nwanews.com/nwat/Editorial/68179 As Americans continue struggling with high gas prices and our country’s energy crisis, “ to drill or not to drill ” is the wrong argument to be having. It’s perfectly understandable that when folks are hurting from high prices, they want solutions and they want them now. The key is to have solutions that will actually work. When you dig past the rhetoric, you see that opening our protected coasts and wildlife refuges would do nothing to lower prices or solve our energy crisis. Bottom line: the United States holds less than 3 percent of the world’s oil, but we use 25 percent of it. Drilling in new areas would simply not produce enough oil to impact prices on the world market. The government’s own Energy Information Administration tells us that oil from new coastal drilling would not be available for nearly a decade, and that it would not reach peak production for roughly 20 years. The oil would amount to a drop in the bucket. And why should we be drilling more if the oil continues to be sent beyond our borders ? Just this week, numbers from the U. S. Department of Energy showed that American oil companies continue to ship huge amounts of oil to other countries. In the first four months of 2008, American oil companies exported a record 1. 6 million barrels per day — compared to the 1. 2 million barrels per day in the first quarter of 2007. The Department of Energy also reported that a record 1. 8 million barrels per day were exported during February 2008. According to the Bush administration, more drilling could produce 200, 000 barrels per day — yet right now, we’re exporting more than 1. 6 million barrels per day. More drilling hasn’t lowered gasoline prices. According to the U. S. Bureau of Land Management, the number of U. S. oil wells increased each year between 2002 and 2006, but so has the price of gasoline. The United States has more oil and gas rigs operating today than the entire rest of the world combined, with hundreds of millions of acres of onshore and offshore federal lands available for leasing. Our country has more than 800, 000 producing oil and natural gas wells, and oil companies already own rights to 68 million acres of federal land and coastline that they aren’t even drilling. Some politicians are also spreading rumors. Vice President Dick Cheney and others have claimed that countries like China are already drilling off our coasts. But Cheney was forced to retract this statement after the Congressional Research Service proved there was absolutely no truth to the claim. Meanwhile, as Americans have to figure out how they will pay to fill up their cars, the biggest oil companies just reported record quarterly profits in excess of $ 40 billion. Big Oil has had us in a chokehold for too long. Americans need and deserve more energy choices. Instead of continuing to provide billions of dollars of subsidies to Big Oil, we should be investing in energy sources like wind, solar and biomass — renewable sources that will create jobs. By making big oil companies pay their fair share, we can fund tax credits and refund checks to regular Americans for immediate, short-term relief from gasoline prices — something drilling wouldn’t do. Why hold up good proposals, such as more renewable energy that everyone agrees on, to benefit oil companies that are happy with high prices ? There are better solutions to our energy crisis. Carl Pope is executive director of the Sierra Club. Copyright © 2001-2008 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. All rights reserved. Contact: webmaster@nwanews.com Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:43:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67973643 2008-08-16T14:43:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67294003 Johnson City, TN --This year's campaign is beginning to resemble the last days of the Roman Republic. During the past week, rightwing politicians who normally... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:25:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67294003 2008-08-10T19:25:20Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67015155 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:04:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Carl+Pope?rinfoid=67015155 2008-08-07T19:04:00Z