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		<title>To Do: U.S. Energy Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We Have No Energy Strategy.&#8221;
Economist and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman outdid himself yesterday morning in his Times editorial Dumb as We Wanna Be. He criticizes presidential candidates McCain and Clinton for proposing a &#8220;vacation&#8221; from the federal excise tax (18.4 cents per gallon) on gasoline for the summer.
We have no energy strategy. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savingtheearth.net/earthorbit/?p=7</link>
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		<title>The World Has Grown More Crowded, With a Nod to Wallace Stegner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Longview, Texas &#8211; a small northeast Texas town on the Sabine River. It was a sleepy place in the 1950&#8217;s &#8211; brick streets, a few stoplights, no McDonald&#8217;s. People left their homes unlocked and their cars running at the curb while they ran into the store. Gas was 19 cents per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savingtheearth.net/earthorbit/?p=5</link>
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		<title>Fossil Fuels &#8211; End of an Era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nine years ago oil was at $10/barrel. Now it&#8217;s $118+. What gives?
Paul Krugman, economist and New York Times columnist, addressed this in his column on April 21. He went to the edge of fully acknowledging the resource crisis we face, then stepped back:
The global surge in commodity prices is reviving a question we haven’t heard much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savingtheearth.net/earthorbit/?p=4</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Earth Orbit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Earth Orbit: Reflections on Nature and the Environment!
In this blog I want to share my experience of nature, my deep concerns for the state of the Earth&#8217;s environment &#8211; and resources for those who wish to learn more.
Earth Orbit is part of a larger site I have developed over the last few months: SavingTheEarth.net. [...]]]></description>
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