(2013/04/29) Spills and spoils (Climate/Environment)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 April 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #712
Spills and spoils
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Mind blowing Benefits in New Tailpipe Pollution Law - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-31-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: California - Phantom Planet
Ch. 4: Act 2: Time To Talk Another Permian Extinction - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 02-23-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Song for the dead - Alexander Wolfe
Ch. 6: Act 3: Carville playing the left of the Keystone XL Pipeline - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-8-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Kilojoules - Freelance Whales
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obama & Keystone XLt: A Politically Inconvenient Truth - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-06-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Lebanese blonde - Thievery Corporation
Ch. 10: Act 5: Republican Cites Biblical Flood as Evidence Against Man-Made Climate Change - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-12-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: The flood Noah - Steve Warsche'
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tar Sands Timmy - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 04-15-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Goodbye blue sky - Pink Floyd
Ch. 14: Act 7: Criminals Control All Access To Crime Scenes - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-12-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Summer skin - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 16: Act 8: Exxon - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 04-20-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Pressure drop - The Clash
Ch. 18: Act 9: What Exxon Doesn't Want You To Know About The AR Oil Spill & Tar Sands Pipeline - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04-05-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: March in the street - Boat
Ch. 20: Act 10: Exxon covered in praise as it covers Mayflower in oil - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 4-23-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Good intentions - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Ch. 22: Act 11: EPA Slams State Dept. on Keystone Pipeline - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-24-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: How do we go about demanding better? - Jorge From South Florida
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 24: Final comments on putting your time and resources to use bettering the world
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors for the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with the Cubsiday from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.8 | the Tom Hartman program, CounterSpin, the majority report, MarkFury.com, Comedian League |
| 0:17.4 | Camp, and Jim Hightower. |
| 0:30.1 | Some good news for environmentalists that last the EPA unveiled a proposal today that |
| 0:34.4 | would sharply limit some of the pollutants in our automobile tailpipe emissions. |
| 0:39.1 | Those in particular are sulfur and also nitrogen oxides, sulfur will be cut by 60 percent |
| 0:44.5 | from current levels, nitrogen oxides, by 80 percent from current levels. |
| 0:48.5 | Now, this seems like a good thing, you would imagine, cleaner air for everybody. |
| 0:51.6 | We all have to breathe the air with your poor, if you're rich, breathe the same air. |
| 0:55.6 | But some people do have a problem with this. |
| 0:57.0 | Every time there's new regulations on emissions, you can expect that the petroleum institute's |
| 1:01.8 | chief lobby is going to come out and give a statement. |
| 1:03.8 | He's worried, and he wants to first all this from happening by saying that these regulations |
| 1:08.4 | could increase the cost of gas from six to nine cents. |
| 1:11.5 | The APA says that it will probably be more like a penny, although apparently that's |
| 1:15.3 | what they say every time. |
| 1:16.8 | But yeah, so that's happening. |
| 1:18.5 | We also would have the benefits of billions of dollars in healthcare benefits by 2030 because |
| 1:23.0 | of less smog in the air, although you do have to balance that with paying $130 for the |
| 1:28.1 | cost for a vehicle by 2025, which is like the cost of undercoding or something, I guess. |
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