Obama’s ‘Advisory’ Board on Climate: Little Dissent


	Obama’s ‘Advisory’ Board on Climate: Little Dissent

merrie

5-21-2009 4:45 AM

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economic recovery advisory board, john doerr, head of the venture capital, kleiner perkins, al gore as a partner, 40 cap-and-trade-dependent business

merrie says:

from consumers and taxpayers through bogus Al Gore-endorsed “green technologies.”

If you’re thinking that Doerr is only one voice on the ERAB and that less-biased heads will prevail, think again. Here are the other ERAB members and their interests/positions on cap-and-trade:

* Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist (Obama administration);
* William H. Donaldson, SEC Chair, 2003-05 (Obama supporter who has spoken in support of climate legislation);
* Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO, TIAA-CREF (TIAA-CREF promotes climate change legislation through shareholder activism and possibly stands to benefit from “green” investments);
* Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO, UBS (sells climate change-related financial products);
* David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University (Yale supports climate change legislation);
* Mark T. Gallogly, founder and managing partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P. (early Obama supporter);

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5-21-2009 4:50 AM

merrie

* Penny Pritzker, chairwoman, Pritzker Realty Group (Obama campaign finance chairman);
* Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE (parent company of NBC News) (lobbying for climate legislation through USCAP);
* John Doerr, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (lobbying for climate legislation through Al Gore);
* Jim Owens, chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc. (lobbying for climate change legislation through USCAP);
* Monica C. Lozano, publisher & chief executive officer, La Opinion (her newspaper endorsed Obama);
* Charles E. Phillips, Jr., president, Oracle (wants to use Oracle technology to ration electricity to consumers through a “smart grid”);
* Anna Burger, chairwoman,...

5-21-2009 3:34 PM

BitDrifter

Obviously packing the committee so he can get the answer he wants.

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Green technologies;</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Cap-and-trade; and</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Rewarding electric utilities for selling less electricity.</LI>
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