Greentech Stategic “Investment” in a Plutocracy

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Written by Susan Kraemer

In a plutocracy like America, the corporations with the most money to bribe the government get to dictate government policies. The five richest corporations in the world are the dirty energy companies: so they dictate energy policy in the US.

We may find this distasteful, but there is little Americans in the new clean energy industry can do other than try to better focus our more puny government bribes to better compete with the dirty energy bribes. A few key votes should be funded, rather than squandering funds where they simply don’t make any impact, if we want to change the way this nation gets energy.

Below the fold, I list the detailed voting history that shows where every dollar would have the most impact on the outcome of climate/clean energy legislation. The clean energy voter has no money to waste. Here is where every dollar needs to be focused and why.

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The Republican filibuster is all that matters
In the normal way that democracy operates, the minority party cannot prevent a vote from happening. But Republicans don’t allow the normal majority vote when they are not in the majority. Since Clinton/Gore, they now consistently misuse a vote-to-vote procedural rule (the filibuster-ending “cloture” vote) to prevent all legislation from even coming up for an up-or-down vote. They are funded by the dirty energy industry. To overcome this, therefor, it is essential to know which Republicans have ever actually broken filibuster ranks. The list is below.

http://cleantechnica.com/2010/06/20/greentech-stategic-investment-in-a-plutocracy/#more-11560

read on: there's some sound, smart, and efficient advice for activists. Plus the scoop on the records of the Senators that could be influenced to break the filibuster.