One wonders how many tons of greenhouse gasses the professedly anti-gasoline Connelly blows out of his automobile every year while commuting between his neighborhood in Seattle and his "REAL home" on Whidbey Island.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 21, 2008 11:08 AM | Email This
Oh, and Washington wouldn't be worrying a lick about electricity if WSSPPS had been built -- due to the Seattle Libs who now say we "didn't do enough"...enough being defined by Europeans:
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5482
At the same time, the environmental movement began to question the wisdom of nuclear power. The Washington Environmental Council filed suit to require City Light to produce an environmental impact statement on the nuclear plants which would have delayed the process five years. The environmental group dropped its suit when City Light Superintendent Vickery opened up the decision-making process. He established a 27-member Citizens' Overview Committee, made up of citizens and including environmentalists, to look at the needs for power and the best ways to provide it. City Light produced a study, Energy 1990, which examined ways to meet future power needs.
Sometimes it just makes my head hurt.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on June 21, 2008 05:21 PMYou forgot to mention that the story about WSSPS goes on to say that plant 1 at Hanford was completed and produces nuclear electric power for 40% cheaper than Seattle pays. And that include, I presume, all the costs of the screw ups in the 80's.
Posted by: deadwood on June 21, 2008 06:12 PMComplete bias and irrationality that almost no one is reading.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 21, 2008 11:51 PMYesterday on post-Russert Meet the Press, Biden (D) kicked in the teeth of Graham (R) about unused leases. Graham correctly said that Bush and McCain are right about off-shore drilling, but he never broke into Biden's fillibusters to address Biden's repeated assertion that oil companies have refused to develop leases they have now.
The only refutation or explanation I've heard so far is that oil companies don't develop what they have now because the green litigation lobby stops them before they get started. That's a reasonable explanation, but it raises a reasonable question: Why would the granting of new off-shore and AK leases not suffer a more reasonable fate?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: sandalista on June 23, 2008 11:00 AMYou see, what the Democrats need right now is to shift the blame about present gas prices to some other bad guy as, right now, they are it and elections are just around the corner (lying quotent up). Every action concerning energy that Democrats in the House and Senate have taken has made the cost of fuel higher and ultimately the cost of everything from soda pop to water to hamburger more expensive and/or scarce. First they tried to blame it on oil companies but with only a an 8 percent profit (less than most any business you can name) that doesn't quite wash. Next it was Bush but that didn't work as Bush decided to stick up for himself for once. Then it was "speculators" but as soon as anybody dialed into Econ 101 that BS blew away. Now we're back to oil companies again not "developing leases" when not much developing can happen until exploration fully takes place. But who cares about details. Surely not that serial bloviator Biden.
Which brings to mind the Carter years. The Democrats are now singing the same songs that Carter did during his administration ("excess" profits tax, government funded alternate energy projects and creation of a "we can't" miasma that crushed the economy and gave us "the misery index") and gas got so high at that point the we had rationing and high prices, the amount which hadn't been surpassed until recently (inflation adjusted dollars).
If the Democrats weren't in the hip pocket of the green lobby 10, 20, 30 years ago (like they are now), we would have plentiful cheap energy now that would pollute less. And there just isn't much you can point to that shows any different.
Don't the drilling companies have to get a Federal permit to drill on those leases, once they find indications there might actually be oil or natural gas on the lease?
Posted by: pyotr on June 23, 2008 01:57 PMAnd Joe Biden knows that but, it's politics you see.
Posted by: G Jiggy on June 23, 2008 02:08 PMJoel, you and your cohorts on the left are dead wrong on this one - you either don't want to or have not considered the big picture. The average global temp leveled off from 1998-2007 and has dipped some this year.
Posted by: KS on June 23, 2008 09:00 PMhttp://mezzanineview.com/mzv/Archives/enviro0011.html
Posted by: G Jiggy on June 24, 2008 02:29 PM