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  LA Solar Plan Call for Support - dumb

  Only in LA would an article think that help for a ballot measure would be effective by endorsements from the celebratecy. Yah actors understand the impacts on working people of a 5 to 15 increase in their electricity bill, or that the cost of a solar watt is three or four times the cost of a natural gas watt. Even if that entereed their mind as being critical.
  On L.A. ballot initiative on solar energy faces questions about cost and feasibility posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  new Drilling off the East Coast

  Written by an eco freek, it quotes only the anti drilling advocates.  We have been drilling in offshore areas for 35 years simce the last maajor drilling spill. Multiple hurricanes, platforms in the North sea have drilled with out much of a spill.
  What have been the cause of the biggest spills?  Oil tankers spillage. The Valdez spill in Alaska was a an Oil tanker running agound.  Our US ports have a huge number of tankers sailing into ports everyday. SF bay has 10 tankers sailing into the bay every day.  Where will the newxt spill occur in one of our bays when a tanker runs into another ship or runs aground in the fog.  
  So way is there so much hate spewing out of eco heads. Because there is a large target - THE OIL INDUSTRY. Everyone hates them so they are easy to write that htey will benefit.  
  We, the US car drivewr will benefit from off shore oil drilling.  Yes it will take years for that oil to start to flow. But eco heads said that 10 years ago.
  Oh yes its nice that you want to save our coastal views, and get oil from foreign countries desp[oiling their coastal regions. But that's okay to be selfish, we're Americans!!!On Bush admin takes first step toward new offshore drilling posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 1 Response

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  Carbon Trading

  What this comes down to is that industries with stacks will be required to pay a TAX. The increased tax will be passed onto the public. The public will complain, but to mo avail since its hard to roll back any Fed or State program.
  So we get US products costing more money and becoming less attractive to overseas markets meaning we import more products from places w/o carbon taxes, so the world wide effect is to increase carbon emissions.
  Elec utilities, especially coal generators,  will be the first to get swacked. The utilities will buy offsets from silly alternatives : acompany with large forest assests can sell those offsets , get income and actually do nothing for lessening emissions.
  Our biggest resource for generating electricity coal will be forced to reduce power production, cusuing blackouts and limiting production/manufacturing growth in hte USA. This will result in more  imports and ...see above.On Europe, pioneering ways to fubar a carbon trading system posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  Logging the watse land

  Again someoen is worrying about logging a small protion of 17 million acres.  An area 162 miles square. Larger than most state.

  Ohn yah, where do you think the lumber will come to build all thoise houses Obama wants to have poor people own.
  Probably from some virgin third world forest depleting their wild life  and reducing the greenery that absorbs green house gases. But that kind of thinking would mean taking a global view.
  This will not be a disaster.
  The lake tahoe area in California was logged clear to build the mines of Virginia city in Nevada. And look at it today. Yes an area can be logged and be replanted and become a beautiful forest withn lots of wild life and one of the clearest lakes in the world.
  And this plan will allow only a very small pPorbably from some third world country or the forests cleaning the air along the tropis.ortion to be workedOn Bush admin unveils new plan for Tongass forest in Alaska, ticks off enviros posted 1 year, 9 months ago 1 Response

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  Nuclear Plants require water Writers lack of know

  The lack of knowledge of the writer of this article is the reason there is a lack of credibility of the anti all sources of energy society.
  The water isn't used to cool the water used in the turbines .
  The water is used to turn into steam and then is run into the cooliong toers where the steamn is converted back into water. Some ezczpes into the air but most is reutrned to aa reservoir for reuse.
  duh ....water used to cool water<>*&^%$$#On Nuclear power plants in U.S. Southeast may face shutdowns due to drought posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses