Our hearts really go out to former corporate commissioner and current Clean Skies Foundation CEO and Chesapeake shill Denise Bode. Bode left the corporate commission last year to head Chesapeake’s propaganda organization (Joseph Goebbels would be so proud!) that promotes the use of compressed natural gas or CNG.

Since it’s beginning, the Clean Skies Foundation has been deemed dubious by anyone with a pulse and a temperature of at least 98.6 degrees:

Wall Street Journal 4/26/07

“Chesapeake Energy Corp., founder of a coalition that ran a series of newspaper ads attacking the coal industry for selling a product that is filthy, says the campaign is ending after a round of protests from congressmen and trade associations.But Aubrey K. McClendon, chairman and chief executive of the Oklahoma City-based natural gas production company, says he will continue to battle the coal industry and is setting up a Washington group, the Clean Skies Foundation, to lead it.

The campaign featured a series of somber Hollywood models with smudged faces over a headline that said Face It, Coal is Filthy. The ads, which ran in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and several newspapers serving Capitol Hill, infuriated delegations from coal states and were disavowed by two major trade associations representing natural gas producers.” Read more…

Our sympathies for Ms. Bode are not because she heads this fake public interest group whose only real purpose is to siphon off milk from the public trough. (Hell, we’d write or say whatever McClendon wanted too for the kind of money she purportedly makes from this gig) No, it’s the fact that she has to try and write something interesting and fresh everyday on the Clean Skies blog. We know blogging everyday can be difficult, but at least we get to write about Oklahoma and national politics – two subjects that gives us a great deal of latitude. All Ms. Bode has to write about is CNG and how it is the second coming of Christ. For example, check out today’s post:

Light, sweet crude is not so sweet to investors, being replaced by sugar on the commodities market as the commodity of choice. Sugar demand is about to top production for the first time since 2006, the year prices reached a 24-year peak. India, the second-biggest grower, will reduce supplies 16 percent next year, shifting to more profitable crops. Brazil, the largest producer, expects to use 57 percent of its cane for ethanol this year, up from 54 percent. Refiners in Europe will process 15 percent less because a 2004 trade ruling bars growers from exporting surpluses.

“The last time the world consumed more sugar than it produced was in 2006, when the cane crop in Thailand was down for a third straight year and record energy prices boosted demand for alternative fuels. Futures reached 19.73 cents a pound on Feb. 3, 2006, the highest since April 1981.” Read more…

I guess what we’re supposed to take from this post is that oil is so “old school” now, that even the world deems sugar more important????

From Stan Geiger – An Oklahoma blog

There is a public discourse underway, focused mainly on the generation of electricity. Windmills, nuclear and solar are all options on the table. But the fact of the matter is, most of our oil consumption goes to transportation. We burn oil fueling planes, trains and automobiles. If we are to shed our dependence on imported oil, we must come up with a new transportation fuel. Ethanol from corn isn’t the answer. There is an answer, however, lying right under our feet. It would be good if someone started paying attention to it.

Boone Pickens is right about one thing: we can’t drill our way out of this problem. At the same time, he’s wrong about nat gas being the solution.

Currently, domestic nat gas production barely keeps up with demand. If we start fueling rolling stock with the stuff, it won’t be long before we find ourselves in the same position with nat gas that we are currently in with oil: we will be dependent on foreign sources. Tulsa’s own super billionaire, George Kaiser, has reportedly made heavy investments in the liquid natural gas biz of late, if that tells you anything.

While the U.S. can’t become energy independent relative to oil and natural gas, it can become energy independent through the use of coal. The U.S. is the undisputed king of coal. We have, far and away, more coal reserves than any nation on the planet. China is a distant second. Read more….

Related:

OKPNS 5/17/08 Environmentalist Wackos in OK; The Heck With the Planet, Someone Save the Humans!

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