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What a wonderful future. Federal "thermostat regulations" requiring you to not heat your house warmer than 68F in winter or cool it below 86F in summer, 55 mph speed limits, complete bans on SUVs and light trucks, parking fees at your office building to force you into carpools, carbon taxes on your airline tickets, forced shutdowns of energy intensive leisure industries like snow skiing, snowmobiles, water skiing and personal watercraft, etc., etc. And all of these weak U.S. efforts that are nothing but nibbling at the edge of the problem will be completely negated by less than a decades growth of the population in India.

OK...let me have a crack at this.

BP America -- Oil and mostly natural gas

Duke Energy -- Natural gas

Dupont -- Chemical industry with lots of oil and gas fired turbines

Caterpiller -- reciprocating engines (oil and natural gas fired)

GE -- Maker of the wind turbine, the GE Frame 7 turbine (natural gas and oil fired)

Lehman Brothers -- Investment group funding turbine projects

PG&E Corp., PNM Resources, FPL Group -- Companies that have very few coal fired boilers but lots of renewables and oil and natural gas connections.

Am I missing anything. These people are trying to jump on the "carbon" issue because it helps them.

But there is just one thing that they are not mentioning folks and no one not even the pinhead liberals in our government understand:

Natural Gas Processing plants (sweetening units) put out CO2 in the hundreds of tons/yr. Right now we only measure the CO2 emissions from coal units. Make these natural gas companies calculate how much CO2 is coming off of their Clause beds, LoCAT incinerators, and Amine units. Make them calculate the amount of CO2 released during Reservoir CO2 fracturing!

I'm going to post this on similar threads to get the word out that these companies are maligning themselves with the Gorons to line their pockets.

Over the past few years, I have despised executives more and more starting with the Enron, Worldcom scandals. They get their golden paychecks and parachutes when they leave, the shareholders get screwed with lower stock prices. The company I work for, our executives get 20% pay increase while the rank and file workers get 2% increase. They have taken away paid overtime but expect you to still do it (salaried). They are clamping down on how and when you take vacation and more bureaucracy is required to take more than a week off. There is talk about tightening the dress code. Doesn't cost the company much to impose these restrictions but bad for morale !