Posted on 07/25/2008 8:45:49 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
This guy might as well have transcribed Kulongoski's press release.
They'll double.
No, nobody would "feel the limit firsthand" when their power bill doubled or tripled inside of a year.. That's a "secondhand feel" which is much kinder and gentler than a "firsthand feel."
I wish this global warming nonsense would just go away already. Unfortunately, like tattoos, it seems to be a trend intent on lingering around.
At least Alberta seems to have some sense. And Saskatchewan, too.
Well, you geniuses, just continue this obvious trend and drive the price infinitely high. We'll all benefit because our bills will be infinitesimally small, maybe even zero dollars. Think of all the money we'll save not having to buy the evil electricity.
The only question to me is: When will the revolution begin?????
Economics for the insane.
I think we should deal with the unicorn infestation before we mess around with global warming. It’s much more urgent...and more credible.
Weasel words upon weasel words. Anyone with brain function above that of a one-celled organism knows that all extra costs will be immediately passed on to consumers in massive utility bill and gas pump price increases that the Democrats will blame on "the energy companies."
State officials who unveiled the approach in Gov. Ted Kulongoski's offices said the draft strategy's mandates may push power rates and fuel prices up slightly. But Oregonians should see lower bills in the end because the strategy promotes conservation measures that should reduce energy use, they said.
This is like saying that allowing serial killers to roam around free will make us safer "in the end" because everyone will be afraid to come out of their houses. If an enormous percentage of the state's population has to quit their jobs because they can no longer afford to drive to work, or are rendered homeless by the tripling of utility bills, then there will definitely be "reductions" in energy use.
I predict that this action will force more citizens to burn wood for heat and thus produce more greenhouse gases, acheiving exactly the opposite of what this strategy wants which is to lower or eliminate those gases.
It will be the only thing marginally affordable for people living in rural areas.
God help the politician who thinks he/she can outlaw woodstoves or fireplaces in the Pacific Northwest. That person will be hunted down and lynched.
Well, you subtract education and substitute globalism in our educational system, what do you expect?
Oregon fascism alert...
Which is to say, you've been in an ivory-tower *way* too long when you start claiming that consumers won't feel the price hikes imposed on power companies.
For 100,000 of the last 120,000 years downtown Seattle was buried under a half mile of glacial ice.
For those of us who live here, global warming is not necessarily a bad thing.
The Republican campaign poster I hope to see this fall...
...The upper floors of Seattle’s skyline poking out of 500 foot snow drifts, and the headline, “Stop Global Warming Now!”
The insanity continues.
What’s wrong with tattoos if they’re not overdone and have actual meaning to the person whose body it’s on?
The Democrats are plotting war against workers. Real idiots.
I consider them incredibly tacky and an insult to the human form, which is plenty beautiful enough on its own without distortion. It’s a personal aesthetic opinion, and you’re more than free to think otherwise. For the majority of the people who get them, I find the story amounts to, “Oh, I like “American Pie” and was wanting a tat.
Lame.
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