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 According to press reports, just one of McCain's homes, his $4.66 million condo in Phoenix, is about 7000 square feet, which is three times the size of the average American home built last year. His $850,000 Virginia condo is another 2,100 square feet. Given a total estimated value of McCain's homes of $14 million, one can make a very rough estimate that McCain has 10 times the carbon footprint of the average American home, which is about 15 tons of CO2.

The world is spending $300 billion every year to subsidize fossil fuels that pollute the air, wreck the climate ... and run the world's economy.  If we  stopped spending $300 billion on coal, oil and natural gas, and started spending it instead on wind, sun and water, a new report from the United Nations Environment Program concludes that eliminating fuel subsidies would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but might just inspire new economic growth.

"Senator McCain has lost any chance of having a balanced or moderate ticket with this choice and has instead opted for the same, business-as-usual reliance on the outdated oil companies that has been the hallmark of the Bush-Cheney administration," Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club added.

Palin has strongly supported drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ("I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem or that more supply won't ultimately affect prices. Of course it will affect prices," she told Investor's Business Daily.)

She does not, apparently, agree with McCain, the Republican platform or the world's top scientists that global warming is caused by humans: "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made," she told Newsmax in September.

For two years, according to the EPA, Exxon just ignored a PCB leak, allowing at least 400 gallons of the notoriously toxic and long-lived (not to mention banned) polychlorinated biphenyl laden oil to leak into the open waters of the Pacific  in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of Southern California.

Op-ed written by Palin says:

" But adding polar bears to the nation’s list of endangered species, as some are now proposing, should not be part of those efforts. " Her solution  - hunting them down. Guess they aren't dying fast enough.

In October of 2006, the Anchorage Daily News described Palin's positions on social issues in a lengthy profile:

In an interview released today by Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen.

Some good info on bying that next car

Its hard to tell if McCain knows hes lying to America or this is just another one of his "senior moments." What is clear is that the media is giving him a pass on his lies and mistatements and are simply the obsolete fools that they repeatedly show themselves to be. Fourth Estate my arse, more like the fourth nail in the coffin of our democracy. Grow some media balls and start challenging the candidates with facts for a change!

You can make a parabolic mirror from an old satellite TV dish, or a bathroom vanity mirror but that's not fun. Making your own mirror allows you to get the exact curvature you need for whatever you might be burning, cooking or heating. It's a fair amount of work, but the resulting energy the mirror produces is amazing.

Going green and creating your own compost bin isn't as hard as you might think. All those grass clippings, plant prunings, and other yard stuff is easily recycled into compost. The project is simple.  You need pallets, wire (to bind them together), some simple tools, and any extra hardware you would like to add for ease of use.

Video on how to attach a "Weed Eater" [string trimmer] motor to a bicycle. Used bicycles and string trimmers are easy to find and very cheap to buy. You could make this project for less than $100, maybe even less than $50. The information on modifying the clutch could be very useful in making robots too!

Make your own backyard biodiesel. It's easy to make a small batch that will work in any diesel engine.