Caroline Calais -- Democracy in Americas

2007/12/5

Defeat for Hugo Chavez Social Vision -- Who Will Be Venezuela's Next Caudillo?

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@ 12:29 AM (9 months, 8 days ago)

            The more things change, the more they stay the same. Take Venezuela for example. Not long ago a travel agency in California started to arrange vacation trips to the country, on the program: visit to the Barrios where Chavez has his greatest support base, and a tour of the state owned oil company PDVSA to learn how oil revenues are transferred into social programs for the poor.

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2007/11/28

Renewables -- Can We Really Afford to be Left Behind?

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@ 09:50 PM (9 months, 14 days ago)

           A lot of people think it is too early to start investing into alternative sources of energy like solar, geothermal and biofuels. That a technology, that can give us clean and renewable energy for cars, homes and business is not economically viable. That is a mistake. Research by the McKinsey Global Institute finds, for example, that even though world energy demand will grow with 2.2 percent annually to 2020 there are enough opportunities available to boost energy productivity with almost 150 percent of the entire US consumption today – or the equivalent of 64 million barrels of oil per day – and this without compromising economic growth.

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