[Arrowhead1952]

Pushing for change

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The Austin Climate Protection Plan includes the following goals:

•Power 100 percent of city facilities with renewable energy by 2012.

•Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from entire city fleet by 2020 through use of electric power and nonpetroleum fuels.

•Achieve 700 megawatts in savings through energy efficiency and conservation by 2020.

•Meet 30 percent of all energy needs through renewable resources by 2020.

•Commit to lowest-emission technologies for any new power plants and carbon dioxide reductions on existing plants.

•Boost energy efficiency in new homes and other buildings.

•Require energy efficiency improvements in existing homes and buildings when sold.

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Austin, home of total nutjobs. I guess the mayor thinks no fuel is burned to produce electricity for the rechargeable vehicles. I'll post comments by local residents in future replies.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Austin, Texas' own SF!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Austin could probably best help to curb global warming by smoking less dope.

[listenhillary]

"polluting carbon dioxide" Change the population to Zero and you can achieve the results.

It's frigging PLANT FOOD, it's not pollution.

[VeniVidiVici]

Carbon Dioxide graph (below) clearly shows the cycle of SUV popularity over the past several hundred thousand years or so:

[BuffaloJack]

So Austin will now switch to a fully socialist government.

[Bean Counter]

If you back up and look at things like this, what is the ultimate goal of "Controlling Climate Change"??

If we accept the premise that Man is capable of inducing global warming, are we not wise to take precautions against an accidental triggering of "Global Cooling" in our zeal to seal the breach in the ozone layer and other such damned foolishness???

At least we know that if another Ice Age decends upon us, all we need do is start open air burning our National Startegeric Reserve of old tires, if we plan ahead right now....

[Red6]

We need to bookmark this for the future. I want to be able to laugh at them in 2012.

[Ditter]

I'll be in Austin in a few weeks for a wedding. I'll be driving my big 'ole SUV and messing up the air. Ha Ha I'll bet I get more than a few dirty looks.

[Oct1967]

Mayor Will Wynn and several other city officials said Austin will cut its emissions of polluting carbon dioxide to almost nothing by 2020


will breathing be allowed

[DrewsDad]

Now this sucks!

I guess I'll have to flee Sodom Austin before this passes and jacks up the home selling costs.

GLOBAL WORMING: The gradual intrusion of government into your life under the guise of global warming.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

[Mrs. Don-o]

•Commit to lowest-emission technologies for any new power plants ...

That'd be nuclear. That one makes sense.

[Mrs. Don-o]

•Commit to lowest-emission technologies for any new power plants ...

That'd be nuclear. That one makes sense.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hmmmmm ....

So HOW MUCH $$$$ would it cost
to physically MOVE Austin to Kalifornia ???

[Old Professer]

Somebody needs to make an engine that runs on carbon dioxide and produces oil.