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Until you factor in increased health care costs due to the unintended consequences. The attachment is from the Dish Texas health survey.
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I used to analyze fish and sediments for organic pollutants but the state killed that program recently. Now I extract and analyze algal lipids for a potential bio-fuel and Bay remediation project.
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That's certainly true. But I'll ask again because no one ever seems to want to answer. What do you think the deficit would look like if someone besides Obama won the election?
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Your paraphrasing missed where I place blame on a lame congress being pulled around by the short and curlies by lobbyists. That said, Wouldn't you agree that Obama was handed the wheel of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg? And for the record, I didn't blame Bush for the jobs lost after the WTC and Pentagon attacks. But if I were to try to lay it all on Bush and the record earmarking borrow and spend, wealth stealing, job killing Republicans I'd post this graph that I pulled off my Congressman's website six or seven years ago.
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That what he had to work with was a trillion dollar deficit, two wars, an economy that was teetering on collapse and that his tool box is a lobbyist plutocracy being administered by a herd of spineless cats and some hard headed two years olds with a single word vocabulary. But now that I think about it, considering what's listed above, I'd say Obamanomics looks pretty good. Considering the pile of crap that he inherited, after one year we've avoided a depression, the economy is growing (slowly) and the stock market is up at least 40%. That aint bad. Thanks for asking. I feel better now.
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I'll bet that it works out to more than 50,000 after you consider the people who will be tracking down polluted water supplies and the subsequent (attempted?) clean up. I agree that corn ethanol should be kept in the liquor store. Food for fuel is/was a lousy idea. It was simply the lowest hanging fruit in alternative fuels. But the upside of green jobs is important to focus on. It has the potential to impact serious change in the basis of our economy. Shale gas is fine as a fill gap (no pun intended) but it's also finite. Renewable energy isn't (except when the sun dies out, but then who will care). Being world leaders in developing, designing, manufacturing, selling, building and installing green technology would do a lot more good for this country in the long run than our current economic plan, which is to buy, transport and sell as much cheap plastic imported crap as WalMart can stock. Personally, I'm tired of being a follower.
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Actually, after you consider waste disposal and plant mothballing, it doesn't look too good even without considering the concerns you mentioned. So. I guess we can expect to pay to have a number of them to be built while the wind, solar, and geothermal projects lie in the realm of the fiscally infeasible.
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we'll never know - should they exist if they can't stand on their own? ditto for mass transit, etc? Actually we can know. Math helps. Maybe your point is that government won't let them try because that's how a lobbyist plutocracy works. As for mass transit, the responsibility of a government is to make decisions that affect sustainability. Subsidizing mass transit and green energy gets us off the foreign energy teet. It's a painful decision that needs to be made, like your parents making you eat your vegetables. You don't like it and don't want to do it, but they're right that you'll be better off for it.
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To partially answer my own question, apparently it's "no". A quick search has led me to articles citing nukes as costing about twice as much per kilowatt hour as solar or wind. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=nuclear-power-could-cost-trillions-2009-06-19 http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2008/update78 I'm still looking but some other links put nukes at three or more times more expensive while creating fewer jobs.
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Let's say that we stripped all regulation from nuclear plants. Could they start up and survive in a free market without government subsidies?
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How is the gov in the way of companies that wish to develop alternative sources or technologies? I'd argue that subsidizing Dinoco and allowing that industry ~$100,000 billion per year in military services is one way of getting in the way of renewable development.
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I always thought "Stay" would be a fun name for a dog. "C'mere Stay. C'mere Stay"
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"I've got a nine inch tongue and can breathe through my ears".
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Nicely done! Looks great!
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And by then we can buy that technology from these guys. http://www.masdarcity.ae/en/index.aspx I guess some folks are satisfied with the US being the largest banana republic on the planet.
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This echoes of something I read from one of our Congressmen recently, Tom Perriello: One of the reasons why it made sense to move quickly is there's a tremendous amount of capital on Wall Street and elsewhere waiting to invest in energy. When I talk to investors, they say, "We need predictability." Whether it's financial regs or energy independence or the jobs bill, they're saying, "Look, if you tell us what the rules are going to be, we'll go do what we do best, which is create jobs and make profits. But we can't do that until you act." So it's less important to get some hypothetically perfect rules than to create the certainty that allows investors and innovators to move forward. Every week the Senate doesn't act, it either freezes that investment and innovation or it sends it overseas. We're giving up jobs. The Senate -- the ridiculous tactics of the Republicans and the timidity of the Democrats -- is standing in the way of the kind of job creation we need.
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She was a conservative. And she's quite well educated but only has a few decades worth of experience in American politics and commentary.
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Type one and type two are both available but we have an affinity for propping up the black jobs which would fail in an open market without the transfer of our money via taxes, fees and the use of our military.
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There were only a few dozen to choose from. Are you seriously going to try to compare Joe the plumber to Arianna Huffington? And what do you have against Greeks
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American Politicial once headed to Canada for Health Care
idrankwhat replied to ryoder's topic in Speakers Corner
Nothing at all. Quite to the contrary. She must have some real talent to be able to dodge their death panels they way she did at such an early age. But to answer your question, what I have against her is that she's proven herself to be nothing more than a political hack job. She deliberately misinforms people and is good at whipping that misinformed mob into a frenzy ("KILL HIM!" comes to mind). Ignorance peddling, bible thumping tools of industry are already plentiful in Washington. We don't need any more. But that's just my opinion. -
I apologize for the political correctness. For the "google challenged" here: search string = PJM "Joe the plumber"
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Nope. It was pajama media who decided that Joe the plumber would be a good choice as their Gaza reporter. But now that I think about it, you're right. It is easy to get FOX mixed up with a blog site. Perhaps I'm being too hasty though. Who am I to pre-judge the newsworthiness of the sleepwear network when some of the most insightful news programming comes from a comedy channel? Weird times these.
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Sorta like us with mediamatters links. Fair enough. Except in my case it's not a "fingers in the ears" response. I actually DO want to know what the article said ("honestly honey, I only watch the pajama channel for the insightful and thorough news reporting").
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I want to read it. I really do, but since the pajama channel started employing clueless plumbers to be their middle east correspondents.....I just can't take them seriously (not that I did) and clicking would just encourage them. I'll look elsewhere for a similar article.