YAY!!!! I don't agree with everything that the President does But!!

[Howler]

If this is true! WOO HOO!!!!! And I apologize if this has already been posted!!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-last-shot-20140423


At the same time, the president is likely to announce his decision on the northern leg of the Keystone XL, the hugely controversial 1,179-mile-long pipeline that would bring tar-sands oil down from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. Although no final decision has been made, two high-level sources in the Obama administration told me recently that the president has all but decided to deny the permit for the pipeline – a dramatic move that would light up Democratic voters and donors while further provoking the wrath of Big Oil. Finally, Obama is positioning the U.S. to play a key role in negotiations on a new global-climate treaty that will begin next year, establishing American leadership on climate issues and giving him one last chance to lead the world to a cooler future before he leaves the Oval Office.
Obama's big leap is driven by two factors. The first is that the politics of climate and energy are changing fast. "Nature has a vote now," says Chris Lehane, a political consultant who works with Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund-billionaire-turned-climate-activist. "People can look outside their window and see that the climate is changing." The most recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which are authored by the world's top scientists, have erased any doubt that climate change is real and the risks – famine, drought, flooding – are increasing with each passing day. But at the same time, solutions are becoming more obvious: The price of clean energy has fallen dramatically in recent years, solar panels and wind turbines are popping up everywhere, and the path to a post-fossil-fuel world is suddenly opening before us. "The cost curve of clean-energy technology is bending down quickly, while the rate of deployment is going up," says Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who points out that wind now generates four percent of the electricity in the U.S., and the price of solar panels has fallen 75 percent in the past five years. "Look at what's happened with LED light bulbs, with photovoltaics. The clean-energy economy isn't something that's happening in the future. It's here today

[WhiteTara]

1. The Future is Here!

The clean-energy economy isn't something that's happening in the future. It's here today

Hey Howler!!!

[Howler]

3. If He shuts down the Keystone Pipeline...

It will start to give me hope for humanity again!!!!

Hey White Tara!!

[randome]

2. I don't know about 'lighting up' Democratic voters.

Voters are more prone to get 'lit up' by voting to prevent something, not to reward a party for something that's already done.

But hopefully it will generate enthusiasm among activists who can then encourage more voters to hit the polls.
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