After high-profile defeats, opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are leveraging them into outreach and engagement on social networks. Can social-media savvy neutralize the lobbying prowess of the oil and gas industry?
IN the midst of President <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html">Barack Obama's inaugural address</a> some very promising statements on energy.
First, he recognized both the environmental and national security disaster of our present policy--something for both the Right and the Left:
<blockquote>Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.</blockquote>
On Tuesday, I wrote a post on T. Boone Pickens, the oil colossus-gone-softy, who is currently waging a ubiquitous, multi-million-dollar ad campaign to convince Americans to stop guzzling gasoline like it’s Happy Hour at TGI Friday’s. Read my post here.
