Re.: Passage of the energy bill: TOTAL PROOF THAT MONEY CAN BUY EVERYTHING!
We all received letters and E-mails from Steve Bouchard of Repower America.
So, I sent him a reply to his most recent E-mail that claimed the energy bill as a historic success.
Steve Bouchard:
Even though better than nothing, the passage of this bill - - not very impressive - - only shows one major thing, NAMELY HOW CORRUPT CONGRESS IS, AND THAT MONEY BUYS EVERYTHING. Just two examples:
1) Don't I recall Repower America telling us that there is no such thing as clean coal, and that coal-burning needs to be cut drastically? What this bill contains: coal strip mining, and GREATLY increased coal usage - - to a degree that we will be burning more coal in 2020 than in 2005. Congress gave the coal miners unions, and the coal industry, what is definitely a No-No in environmental terms. LOOK WHAT MONEY CAN BUY!
Congress has access to scientific fact; so they can't claim ignorance as an excuse for screwing up! Let me quote you an Oxford University study: - - OP-ED section, LA Times, 6.25 - - shows that, with recent CO2 production levels, and CO2 increases in the near future, "that we have a 90% chance of undoing the conditions on Earth that allowed and supported the development of human civilization."
And please don't try to El Toro Poo Poo yourself out of this one.
2) As everybody in global warming agrees, the horrendous deforestation - - cutting down of trees - - is a key reason why nature is choking, and that trees and oceans are nowadays only capable of balancing 54% of CO2 produced; 2008 science reports.
a) The first step in strip-mining is to cut all trees from a mountain, before they blow the top off to get to the coal.
b) Agriculture cutting down trees to grow crops on this land will be going on as usual and unrestricted; another pay-off success of the agricultural lobby!
You should be ashamed to be part of such rip-off schemes!
If you people had any character, you would have tied congresspersons who, so obviously, allowed themselves to be influenced by special interests to trees in front of the US Congress, and allowed the public to throw rotten apples at them; like to like!
Whatever happened to principles?
Sincerely - very -
Dr. Hans J. Kugler, PhD
PS, and for the record:
a) I am not in support of eliminating coal completely. We should use coal, like natural gas, as a transition energy to eliminate foreign oil imports; possibly even with - limited and temporary - CO2-sequestering - while we do everything to support construction and installation of clean sources like wind and solar. CLICK HERE for "Coal Problem by the numbers."
Quote from Tom Dinwoodie (founder of a market-leading solar firm and a new RMI Trustee), "if you build side-by-side coal and solar plants of equal annual output in (say) New Jersey, starting now, then by the coal plant’s completion, the solar plant will be producing four times its peak output—and cheaper electricity."
b) Preventing deforestation, and a strong program to re-plant trees everywhere, would have been easy to incorporate into the energy/environmental bill; we certainly don't need more strip-mining, and why throw at agriculture what they don't really need?
c) In Germany, and some other countries, Government representatives have to abide by science advisories; when voting depends on science facts, the advisories will determine what is correct, or paid off El Toro Poo Poo. When a representative votes in disagreement with such science facts, the media calls attention to him/her, and - - presently only proposed - - additional punishments would be that he/she has to consume one pound of spoiled Bratwurst and wash it down with (a disgusting brew) old-fashioned Russian beer.
Would/could something like that improve Congress? What form of punishment would you suggest?
So, I sent him a reply to his most recent E-mail that claimed the energy bill as a historic success.
Steve Bouchard:
Even though better than nothing, the passage of this bill - - not very impressive - - only shows one major thing, NAMELY HOW CORRUPT CONGRESS IS, AND THAT MONEY BUYS EVERYTHING. Just two examples:
1) Don't I recall Repower America telling us that there is no such thing as clean coal, and that coal-burning needs to be cut drastically? What this bill contains: coal strip mining, and GREATLY increased coal usage - - to a degree that we will be burning more coal in 2020 than in 2005. Congress gave the coal miners unions, and the coal industry, what is definitely a No-No in environmental terms. LOOK WHAT MONEY CAN BUY!
Congress has access to scientific fact; so they can't claim ignorance as an excuse for screwing up! Let me quote you an Oxford University study: - - OP-ED section, LA Times, 6.25 - - shows that, with recent CO2 production levels, and CO2 increases in the near future, "that we have a 90% chance of undoing the conditions on Earth that allowed and supported the development of human civilization."
And please don't try to El Toro Poo Poo yourself out of this one.
2) As everybody in global warming agrees, the horrendous deforestation - - cutting down of trees - - is a key reason why nature is choking, and that trees and oceans are nowadays only capable of balancing 54% of CO2 produced; 2008 science reports.
a) The first step in strip-mining is to cut all trees from a mountain, before they blow the top off to get to the coal.
b) Agriculture cutting down trees to grow crops on this land will be going on as usual and unrestricted; another pay-off success of the agricultural lobby!
You should be ashamed to be part of such rip-off schemes!
If you people had any character, you would have tied congresspersons who, so obviously, allowed themselves to be influenced by special interests to trees in front of the US Congress, and allowed the public to throw rotten apples at them; like to like!
Whatever happened to principles?
Sincerely - very -
Dr. Hans J. Kugler, PhD
PS, and for the record:
a) I am not in support of eliminating coal completely. We should use coal, like natural gas, as a transition energy to eliminate foreign oil imports; possibly even with - limited and temporary - CO2-sequestering - while we do everything to support construction and installation of clean sources like wind and solar. CLICK HERE for "Coal Problem by the numbers."
Quote from Tom Dinwoodie (founder of a market-leading solar firm and a new RMI Trustee), "if you build side-by-side coal and solar plants of equal annual output in (say) New Jersey, starting now, then by the coal plant’s completion, the solar plant will be producing four times its peak output—and cheaper electricity."
b) Preventing deforestation, and a strong program to re-plant trees everywhere, would have been easy to incorporate into the energy/environmental bill; we certainly don't need more strip-mining, and why throw at agriculture what they don't really need?
c) In Germany, and some other countries, Government representatives have to abide by science advisories; when voting depends on science facts, the advisories will determine what is correct, or paid off El Toro Poo Poo. When a representative votes in disagreement with such science facts, the media calls attention to him/her, and - - presently only proposed - - additional punishments would be that he/she has to consume one pound of spoiled Bratwurst and wash it down with (a disgusting brew) old-fashioned Russian beer.
Would/could something like that improve Congress? What form of punishment would you suggest?
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Comment by Jim Martin on June 27, 2009 at 3:19pm - This energy bill is our first step toward punishing creation of pollution, including CO2. Although we might want more, it is probably as good as we can hope for at this time.
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Comment by WALTER REED on June 27, 2009 at 12:33pm -
Hi Hans:
I certainly appreciate you views have been posted. Many of us on this site know this; that our government is purchased and paid for by special interests, before the last presidential election - and it wouldn't have made a dimes worth of difference as to which party was elected. This has been a step by step evolution over the past 35 years. Our corporate fascist run government, now transitioning to a pullet bureau of control, is the die that has been cast. The public didn't wake up then and it is unlikely to do so now as the media and Hollywood are under their thumbs. Consider what Hollywood producers call 'documentaries'; filled with rumor, false facts and unfounded conclusions. Then we see GE owning and commanding a major media network as a mouth piece of the administration and these upside-down policy making. And the created trillions of dollars of debt, most of which diverted to campaign support pay-offs, not investing in new invention, manufacturing, the curbing of moronic trade treaties, controlling immigration, real infrastructure repair, or common sense energy alternatives.
We are left with a few blog sites to air our frustrations and maybe fifty persons will read it - or maybe not - and don't hold your breath as the control of this medium on the horizon. I even see twitters and the like become sound-byte injections of disinformation and a new low of intellectual realization into society as a real possibility. Wealth redistribution is in motion and the manufacture export of product appears near extinction. What better plan could have been created for the demise of our country?
The answer? Fire Congress; the whole lot, at the next election. The few who do survive that election will then get the message. Only then is there a possibility that those beltway boys will listen to the voices of our citizens. I realize that this is very unlikely to happen or we would have seen a viable third party by now. And what does all this say about our 'think tanks', 'politicians' and 'advisers'; just another form of prostitution?
Yes, a few of us are very concerned.
Walter
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