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Obama admin sets aside large public land tracts to develop solar power plants
GOP USA ^ | 10/13/2012 | Jason Dearen

Posted on 10/13/2012 11:42:46 AM PDT by IbJensen

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To: Vince Ferrer

I would say that none of it is due to solar power. Solar power replaces coal and natural gas. It does not replace oil.


21 posted on 10/13/2012 12:25:59 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron
Wind power is wasteful of land in much the same way.

Wind power KILLS EAGLES! Where are the environazis on this? Why aren't they screaming?

22 posted on 10/13/2012 12:35:35 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Coming from Salazar it’s mostly bull crap. Any increase in domestic oil production is due solely to the State of South Dakota and the amazing oil boom that’s hit there.


23 posted on 10/13/2012 12:43:23 PM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Coming from Salazar it’s mostly bull crap. Any increase in domestic oil production is due solely to the State of North Dakota and the amazing oil boom that’s hit there.


24 posted on 10/13/2012 12:43:45 PM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: IbJensen

The federal givernment OWNING ANY land in ANY State is obscene.. and pure socialism..


25 posted on 10/13/2012 12:44:21 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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Incorrectly identified the state as South Dakota. I thought I caught it in time but, somewhow, both posts hit the thread at the same time


26 posted on 10/13/2012 12:45:12 PM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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Incorrectly identified the state as South Dakota. I thought I caught it in time but, somewhow, both posts hit the thread at the same time.


27 posted on 10/13/2012 12:45:27 PM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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Sorry for the hiccups. I don’t understand what happened.


28 posted on 10/13/2012 12:46:15 PM PDT by IbJensen (Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: IbJensen

Salazar is the guy who led the fight to shut off oil shale development. Oil shale will never happen as long as he is in office.


29 posted on 10/13/2012 12:50:49 PM PDT by marron
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To: Sacajaweau
Just more collateral for China loans........

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f8_1235673139

Don't know if its true...but it would make sense from China's viewpoint

30 posted on 10/13/2012 12:54:22 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: IbJensen

This is one of those rare situations where the bunny-huggers will come to the rescue. The land they’re talking about is prime Desert Tortoise habitat.


31 posted on 10/13/2012 12:55:13 PM PDT by Redcloak (A founding member of Drunkards for Romney)
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To: IbJensen

I thought public lands were set aside to prevent development, to maintain a natural environment. Not to be paved over in solar cells.


32 posted on 10/13/2012 12:59:42 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

They don’t care as, long as it is their great god Obunghole who is doing it. The American people keep getting locked out of more and more of their public lands while Obungholes cronies get rich.
CAN YOU SAY AGENDA 21 ?


33 posted on 10/13/2012 1:30:46 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Sacajaweau
. . . . the lands belongs to the states.

I think that so-called "public lands" in most states actually belong to the wretched federal gvernment. Texas is the only state that I am aware of that retained the right to control its public lands when it became a state.

34 posted on 10/13/2012 1:37:50 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: IbJensen
Ecological disasters are fine with Lefties as long as they get to make a few bucks off them.
35 posted on 10/13/2012 1:56:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: NormsRevenge

How many millions acres did he declare off limits for any kind of development or mining and such?

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Most of Utah IIRC. And Utah has put the federal government on notice that it is reclaiming those lands.


36 posted on 10/13/2012 2:04:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: IbJensen

There needs to be grid backup to aupport these solar panels
and wind turbines. These energy sources are extremely ineffient to begin with, what happens when the panels wear
out and have to be replaced? What happens when the turbines
fail and need repair?


37 posted on 10/13/2012 3:23:21 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: upcountryhorseman

Its even less practical because they can not store wind energy.


38 posted on 10/13/2012 3:34:40 PM PDT by Leep (Forward! to serfdom)
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To: Leep

Also, they cannot store solar energy either: it has to be fed into the grid.(sorry, I sholod have done a spell check on my last post)


39 posted on 10/14/2012 8:44:49 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: IbJensen; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
Sounds like it's being done on existing government land -- article says public lands, but we all know who really owns the land.

Let's just hope THESE companies don't go bankrupt.

Why not consider returning all this land to the states? I doubt that the Feds got it with each legislature's permission for its state's land, as stipulated in the Constitution.

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40 posted on 10/17/2012 5:31:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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