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June 09, 2014 10:37 AM UTC
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The most ludicrous part to me is that neither of these are true. The first one, not necessarily so and the second, definitely not. I don't know who writes their copy, but they are liars.
Lies and the lying liars that tell them:
Solar Power Industry Now Employs More U.S. Workers Than Coal and Oil Combined
A somewhat related story about what happens when you mix fossil fuels and liars…
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-justification-crude-oil-100000488.html
NEW YORK (TheStreet) –Speculation for crude has been rampant over the past six months. Despite the fact that we are merely one month and 0.03% away from making an all-time high in crude oil supplies, we're seeing WTI crude at $102.76. If the price was based purely on a supply/demand theory, we should be in the low $80s.
oops…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-08/world-needs-record-saudi-oil-supply-as-opec-convenes.html
"Just six months ago, energy analysts predicted output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would climb too high and Saudi Arabia needed to cut to make room for other suppliers. They changed their minds after production from Libya, Iran and Iraq failed to rebound as anticipated, and industrialized nations’ stockpiles fell to the lowest for the time of year since 2008. Saudi Arabia may need to pump a record 11 million barrels a day by December to cover the other member nations"
10-4, on that Michael. That trend will continue to grow. Someday, pray sooner than later, fossil sunshine will be no more useful than as feedstock for industrial materials production. Real time fuel sources that can be accessed without excavation or drilling should be the priority for ALL political entities.
If it were so, how long before we could clean up our skies and our water supplies.?…Not too long, I would wager.
Last month, German energy prices went negative for a short time. The Germans (wisely) give a priority to green electrons in their national grid. While they met over 70% of their demand from renewables on one day last month, they are now generating 27% of their average demand from those same sources. They are on pace for that number to hit 50% in the next five years. From my time in Germany last year I witnessed rural communities that now prosper; a German, energy-intensive manufacturing sector that knows it's going to win the global 'competitiveness' game by moving to this abundant, cheap source of power.
This is a complete mind shift in energy thinking: Germany is demonstrating that we are literally drowning in energy. The old lie that our only 'cheap' energy is a finite, fossil source that exasperates our climate (and by default, economic) challenges is so laughably debunkable its almost not worth mentioning. The reality is that we are drowning in energy from the that great nuclear reactor in the sky. We lack nothing but political will to make the transition.
Cheap and abundant energy, what we built our American economy upon, is once again at our fingertips. I've said it before and i'll say it again: we didn't leave the Stone Age becasue we ran out of rocks.
Although I think it's great that Jared is open about his sexuality (and I wish that wasn't something special), I believe that Gerry Studds (was the first openly gay rep elected (well, re-elected after coming out).
Jared was the first to win his first term as an openly gay man. I agree they're all milestones.
As for the LCR, the part that cracks me up is that this sort of thing (conservative group to diverse individual) has to be planned in the Republican Party. In the Democratic Party you're as likely to get someone who matches their opponent's diversity by chance as by intent. If it's not a white, upper middle class or higher male Republican who's yelling at you, they designed it that way
Interesting point. There must be someone in the LCR that sees the sad audacity of this and objects to it…
Does anyone really read the the Denver Post any more?
I like their Ipad app
I do. I get a lot of my news online and half the time i have to go online to get the whole story (that the Post clipped) but it leads me to interesting connections I probably wouldn't find on my own. Sometime I make a game of seeing just how much of any given paper I can send straight to the recycle bin; thus reducing a 24 page front section down to 6 pages.
Full-page ad in the Boulder paper today, too.
Hahahaha.
Well, I'm sure that made a big impact. CD-2 is D+8, Obama+18, and probably Fracking -100.
So the Koch brothers now have a lavender subsidiary in the Log Cabin Club. I'm guessing Mary Cheney would be the logical middle person between oil and gas interests, and the GOP's outreach (so to speak) to the GLBT community.
Ding, ding, ding !!!
This alleged group is yet one more AstroTurf conduit / facade for GOPer propaganda. Their "information source" is the same daily e-mails and screed that our illiterate librarian pisses (sic) along.
Phoenix Rising pointed out that the ballot language for Initiative 75 (posted here directly from the Secretary of State's site) is way too broad. It's basically a Libertarian manifesto. It's now called "Right to Local Self-Government," and
IT HAS NO FRICKING REFERENCE TO RESTRICTING DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS!!!! Doesn't mention fracking. It's all about how local communities can basically set their own laws and regulations independently of state and federal laws. It's almost a secessionist bill of rights.
Excuse the all caps yelling. But steam is coming out of my ears at the moment. Something happened, in between the modest language of local control:
and that CRAP which, if people are ignorant enough not to read the language, will be on the ballot next fall.
So I'm not surprised, now, that Polis is backing away from this. He wouldn't want to be associated with initiative 75 in its current form. Only a very few libertarians or secessionists would.
I don't know what happened. I don't know Cliff Willimeng or "Lotus" no last name, who are listed as the sponsors of I 75. I suspect some dirty tricks happened, but it doesn't even matter, I guess, except to beware of similar tricks in the future.
Back to the goddam drawing board, say I.
MJ55,
Yeah, there's a lot of nonsense in the initiative process designed to confound the voters. The set that Polis supports is in the 85-93 range. Cliven Bundy approved 75 is not on of them.
Here's a list Lynn Bartels was nice enough to complile.
+ a dozen to you and to Lynn Bartels for compiling the list with links.
Slight correction: it's a hippie Libertarian's manifesto – after all, it makes repeated claims to the rights of "nature".
And Phoenix, philosophically, I'm there. I do think that people should consider their local resources and ecology when they choose how to develop their communities. I think "nature" has "rights" to consider. Initiative #89 attempts to encode that philosophy.
But we're in a dirty street fight here with an industry that doesn't want any communities curtailing anything about how they operate, and people are dying and getting sick from effects of oil and gas development, and if we're getting the buy-in of Coloradans, we need to get all cut-and-dried legal and specific.
Thanks, Pcat, for posting the list, which I will paste below:
Here's a look at the energy, local-control and related measures that still are standing and a brief breakdown by subject. Nine of them are backed by Congressman Jared Polis.
Polis-backed measures involving increased setbacks from occupied structures
No. 85: increases setback to 1,500 feet; declares there is no compensation to the mineral-right holder for that 1,500 feet because it's not considered a taking by government
No. 86: increases setback to 2,000 feet; same taking language
No. 87: increases setback to half-mile; same taking language
No. 88: increases setback to 2,000 feet; does not have taking language
Polis-backed measures limiting or prohibiting oil and gas development or operations
No. 90: allows cities and counties to prohibit or limit oil and gas development; not considered a taking
No. 91: allows cities and counties to prohibit or limit oil and gas operations
No. 92: allows cities and counties to prohibit or limit oil and gas development
No. 93: allows cities and counties to limit oil and gas development; not considered a taking
Polis-backed measure
No. 89: environmental rights amendment initiative
Read more: Colorado energy measures expected to attract big names, deep pockets – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25743740/colorado-energy-measures-expected-attract-big-names-deep#ixzz34B3MQAN5
I think at the least that we need to have broader consideration of nature when it comes to our actions – and that some species have enough intelligence and/or empathy that we need to start evaluating our actions under tougher standards that include their wellbeing.
I was merely commenting that no truly Libertarian manifesto would have included nature. A true Libertarian would assume that any being intelligent enough to deserve consideration would fight for their own rights.
While Log Cabin Republicans are launching an attack on Jared Polis, their own partisans in Texas have just taken the postion that they should all be brainwashed/tortured out of existence. Perhaps their priorities are a bit misplaced?