Energy. We will kick off with your Energy Habits. How have they changed over the years . Emocrat, host 202 5853880 republicans, 202 5853881. Independence and all others, 202 5855883. Send us a tweet at cspanwj. Mail us, journal cspan. Org let me begin with a poll taken energy and the environment tradeoffs. From an april 10 poll, americans are still divided on this Energy Environment tradeoff. Americans divide evenly when asked whether the u. S. Should Prioritize Energy production, or environmental protection, 45 , when goals conflict. From 2000 one to 2008, americans came down on the side of the environment. Since 2009, they have been divided or showed a preference for energy production. Aside from a shift for the environment in the late of the gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in april 2010. Have your Energy Habits changed over the years, what do you think about this . We want to hear from you this morning. More polls. Is it possible to reduce the effects of Global Warming . There may be disagreement over whether Global Warming exist, most, 74 of those who say there of risingvidence temperatures on earth believe it is possible to reduce the effects. Just 23 say it is not possible. When asked if mayors are if be neededifices will to reduce the impact of Global Warming, 44 said they will be needed, web 26 said technology can solve the problem. There is also this from another poll, more important priority supply. Nations energy developing alternative sources such as wind, solar, hydrogen. 37 republicans say that is important. 71 of democrats say it is important, 60 of independents say that that is an Important Energy policy. Expanding exploration of oil, coal, natural gas, the numbers reversed. Of republicans, 22 of democrats, 31 of independents. Saying that expanding exploration of oil, coal and natural gas should be a priority. Rob, pennsylvania, independent caller. How have your habits changed if they have it all . Done what i can to put myself in a position where i dont have to use a vehicle. If i had a car, i can use public transportation, use a bicycle or walk to work. I have tried to do things around the house like cover the windows with cellophane material or saran wrap. Putting an insulated coat on the water heater. If i am gone for it more than a day, i turned the water heater off. I try to do things to help out. Host have you noticed more savings, more money because of that . Caller i do. Host do you know the number . Caller i noticed when i was heating, ik with my go a little bit extreme with my thermostat. If i enable, i will put it down to 50 degrees in the winter. Be 20 noticed, it must or 30 less. Host what about the city that you live in . Today make it easy for you to bike around. Caller not necessarily, unfortunately. We dont have a lot of bike paths. With proper lighting, i feel pretty good about writing around riding around at night or in the daytime. To make way for you if they are aware that you are making yourself visible. They will go out of their way to make it better for you. Energyalking about your habits this morning. On facebook, here are some of the comments. I have always been conscious of the energy i use. Energyefficient appliances, ceiling my windows and doors, turning off my lights. A Little Common sense goes a long way. Spendys, vermonters more than 800 million. Per year investing in using Energy Efficiently would give them savings. What could a tiny state like milliondo with 400 dollars per year. David, california, independent. Hi. You are on air. Caller hello. Host how have your habits changed . Caller i have definitely been using glass. It has been getting a lot more expensive, especially here. I work marginal rates are our marginal rates are close to what they are in germany and places like that. Force, aso changed by lot of devices that you get today go to sleep. Then you have to play with them and wait for them to come back to life again to use them. That takes a lot of time and energy. There is a lot of silliness going on. Carbon dioxide is beneficial. There is not very much of it. Host ok caller it certainly is not making anything warmer or colder for that matter. Co2 emissions. The epa at their headquarters in washington is holding a listening session about the best ways to reduce Carbon Emissions from the nations power plants. We will have coverage on our website, cspan. Org for more information. Here is a piece that was posted on al jazeera americas website yesterday. The war of different colored t shirts. Members and other environmentalists sported t shirts saying save our communities. Others were navy wore navy blue ones saying coal keeps the lights on. It was part of a series of 11 hearings organized by the epa, seeking to consult with the public on the development of regulations limiting Carbon Emissions from power plants. We are asking all of you this morning as we focus on Renewable Energy, have you changed your Energy Habits and how so . Democrats, 202 5853881. Blicans, democrats, 202 5853880 republicans 202 5853881 independents and all others, 202 5853882. , or us a tweet cspanwj post on facebook. Lewis, independent color. Caller my habits have changed, i ride a bicycle. Host has the city made that easy for you . Caller no, it is just economic. Host has it saved you money . Caller certainly. Host how much . Insurance,ont have i do not have to have a mechanic. I do not have to buy gasoline. Tearves money and wear and on the brain. Host all right. Virginiatexan tweets in. More and cheaper natural gas for showers. Independent caller, hi there. Years to 7the last 5 years, our electric rates go up every year. No matter how efficient we my household, how much less we use, they find a way to hike it up to where it was. I am sitting here, november 7, my house is totally electric. I have not even turned my heating on. My son is 19 years old, we are suffering through. Ay that making 750 7. 50 an hour you can afford to pay a 400 electric bill. Thent understand how system will sustain itself if they price us out of food and electricity. Done over have you the years to try to reduce your electric bill . Thing, ite number one is november 7, we have not turn our heat on yet. Through the house, we turn off every light and we walked out of the room. Effort tomake an unplug everything from the wall once we are not using it. It draws from the plug. Different. A little a month or two later, six months, they will send you a rate increase. I will call and complain because they give you a number to call and complain. No matter how much you complain, they still raise it. I dont see how people out here in these small towns that cannt pay anything early, keep paying these high energy costs. I dont really have a solution, i just i dont know what is going to happen to everyone out here that is poor. Host how much of a difference hasnt made . Has it made . Caller that is just it. It will come down host how much will it come down . Caller lets see, there have been times for example, i have lived in this house for 19 years. When we first moved in here, our electric what average, at the highest part of the year, 180 a month. They would would send a rate increase, up to like 220. We would try and make it as efficient as possible and it would creep back down. Then they would raise it right back up. I have this battle. Different, it is a lot of money to people who are making seven dollars an hour. Host let me ask you this, we read that tweet about natural gas. Do you care if your electricity came from coal, natural gas, other sources, fossil fuels . Do you want it to come from renewable sources . Caller i want clean, efficient energy. That is going to be affordable to people but also does not harm the environment. I know it is hard to have both, but there is a balance somewhere. They money in energy keeps this from happening. They suppress technology, they stop Clean Energy Product projects, they use power and money to keep dirty energy going. Host coming up on washington talking about Renewable Energy standards and an upper on capitol hill to put that into law. We will be focusing on wind power as well as solar here on washington journal. Is it more important to be affordable or clean . This point, it is terrible to say, as an individual trying to take care of a family, affordable. Host from the Energy Information agency, this is the u. S. Sources of electricity from 2012. 12 of electricity comes from Renewable Energy, solar, geothermal, biomass waste and wo od, wind, hydropower. 19 of that is nuclear, natural gas is 30 , coal 30 37 . Risk, democratic bruce, democratic caller. Toler i guess what i wanted say we need and all of the above approach. I lean towards nuclear energy. Done in my house, i have installed energyefficient storm windows, double glazed windows. I have installed gas heating, gas hot water tanks, gas cook stove. My wife is retired, she does not have to drive to work anymore, i have cut down to 24 hours. In the summertime, my electric bill will go up, my gas bill will drop. In the winter, vice versa. On average, throughout the year, i am running about 200 per month on gas and electric. Were doing good. I have installed all of the squiggly bulbs. You know what i am talking about. Host right. Caller i feel good about all of that. Host is saving you money . Caller well, people i talk with host what if it did not save you money . Caller it would have to save to those to go expenses of doing things like that. Plus, by using gas, it is a little cheaper. Itnot quite as carbon is not as dirty as coal. If i was totally electric like i used to be years ago, electric bill would average around 400 a month. What does that tell you . Host on twitter, nothing dirty about solar, wind, water. All electricm, houses are not efficient. Chris, texas, republican caller. Good morning. I have moved into a new house two years ago that has the most as ay efficient items such barrier or vinyl windows. It really does save a lot of energy. Is theother hand, my job Energy Efficiency consultant, i go to places around the world and show them how to take their Industrial Facilities more Energy Efficient. I do look at a lot of data, Carbon Dioxide versus temperatures. My conclusion is that the data supports that there really is very poor relationship between Carbon Dioxide and global temperatures. Wante i agree, people to become Energy Efficient in their homes to save money, that is great. That is what i do. In terms of impact on Global Warming or Climate Change, i would say it has a low impact. Host all right. We will keep taking your phone calls on Energy Habits and how they have changed and what you are doing differently to conserve energy. Ofother news, front page houston chronicle, president obama in texas yesterday defending the Affordable Care act. Admits the flaws but jabs the governor for not giving the state expanded medicaid to help the poor. On the front page of the wall street journal, worried Senators Press president obama, leading at the white house. Democrats fear it is taking a political toll from the health care law. Within the wall street journal, abouts the story testimony on capitol hill yesterday from hhs secretary kathleen sebelius. She was up there again for the testifying about the Affordable Care act, twice in the last two weeks. The headline Exchange Site needs hundreds of fixes. Yesterday, House Government Reform Committee released documents that showed only 6 people signed up for coverage on first day. Healthcare. Gov that healthcare. Gov open. The next is a story about labor unions and the healthcare law. Administration planning to exempt some labor unions and businesses from paying part of a contentious healthance fee under the overhaul law. Unions and businesses said wednesday that the move would not go far enough. Signaled the hyatt intends to propose a break on intends toit i propose a break on the fee. And then, healthcare. Gov, the Affordable Care act, having an impact on the Virginia Governor race and the new jersey race. Look at the exit route polls in virginia. , the republican who lost, cap with terry closed the gap with terry mcauliffe, losing by only 3 poin ts. That on the healthcare law. In other news overseas, here is the International Section of the New York Times, easing sanctions if iran halts nuclear program. The administration telling iran that the suspension of nuclear efforts for 6 months will give negotiators time to pursue a new agreement. That is from the New York Times this morning. Back to the governor races from yesterday tuesday. Front page of the Washington Times, tea party not happy with gop after virginia race. Saying i believe that the Republican Party did not want to help Ken Cuccinelli because they dont want anymore Tea Party Conservatives in power. It goes on to quote the rnc chairman. Disappointed as other republicans that mr. Cuccinelli lost. On the front page of the New York Times, republicans are influence ofit the the tea party in races, trying to change the open primaries across the country so that more mainstream republicans can win this primary contests. We are talking about your Energy Habits, have they changed . Don, pennsylvania, independent caller. Caller how are you . My wife and i, we have changed we have reduced our air conditioning costs and turn our thermostat down in the winter we are not home. We try to do that. We just replaced the refrigerator. There is a program where you get to send your old refrigerator back, you get 50. It is a nice rebate. When it comes to your total energy cost, i would love to have solar, wind, all the safe renewable energies. In pennsylvania, we have the , we arel, fracking putting so much money into shale, we are not getting anything back. We are polluting our water, sticking millions of gallons of clean water into the ground. Millions of water gallons of filthy water, contaminated water, it is costing money to clean up or get rid of that water. To go use any money into research for clean energy. We are going to kill our planet. The number one thing we have is clean water. We are not looking, spending any enoughresearch Research Money into clean Energy Sources. I would love to have solar panels on my home. I cannot afford them. We are only given as a consumer only so many choices for energy. We are just going to pollute ourselves out of existence. I know people think Global Warming is not happening, but in pennsylvania, our winters come later and springs, earlier. I would like to help, we are not getting enough choices and enough to incentive to conserve. We have done it as a family, but overall people do not care. They will not care until the planet is destroyed in front of their eyes. They just want the cheapest possible way. Nature. Just human we should be able to reduce costs. What rating would you give obama on Environmental Policies . Caller i would give him a c for giving it some lip service. Push fordent does not cleaner energy. It is not one of his major priorities. He might say, fracking is safer it is not. He has not been friendly to alternative energy. It is not even been in the conversation. Were are talking about the Affordable Health care act. Conversation. T in nobody is talking about clean energy. From the me show you white house, here is president obamas plan. Reduce Carbon Pollution from power plants, cut energy waste, help states and cities prepare for impacts of Climate Change, lead efforts to address Climate Change. Has he done any of these in your opinion . Caller have i, yes. We have reduced host no, has president obama. Caller has he done it . He has addressed the issues, i dont think we have come lets say, here is a 15,000 panels onput solar your house funded through gas is. G like natural in pennsylvania, oil and Gas Companies get everything. People are not getting anything back. The president cannot do that overnight. The state can. I dont think our governor in pennsylvania has given enough support to the people of the state other than the drillers getting the gas out of the ground and the commonwealth. Unless you own the property underneath, you dont get anything back for alternative energy. Solar panel rebates which can help reduce your costs to the power grid. Host got it. Here is an email from a viewer. Bought a tesla. It is an amazing feeling. It could lead 98 miles per gallon. That is j. Datz. You can email us, journal c span. Org. If your energyg habits have changed over the years. 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