Posted on 09/27/2007 11:00:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Pushing politics aside, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and former Democratic President Bill Clinton took the stage together to announce that Florida Power & Light will build a solar power plant in Florida as part of a $2.4 billion clean energy program.
"This is a huge deal for America and I think potentially a huge deal for people all around the world who want to do this," said Clinton, who introduced Crist and company Chief Executive Lew Hay at the beginning of the Clinton Global Initiative conference.
The conference is focused on finding ways to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, including poverty and climate change.
The locations of the proposed solar plants were not disclosed.
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Clinton also praised Crist for signing an order that sets a goal of reducing the state's carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050.
Still wtg for prop tax relief and insurance reform. If there are crickets chirping, CC is hob knobbing with celebs out of state instead of being “the people’s governor.” He’s going to Brazil soon, probably to learn how to do the cha-cha.
Clams all around.
He'd rather hob knob than do his job.
From what I hear, Charlie would enjoy that....
Crist is a winy RINO.
He’s had the state of Florida (the taxpayers) become the insurer of first resort for hurricanes; the fund will go bankrupt with the next big hurricane and he’ll then campaign for re-election as a liberal, blaming the feds for not bailing out the debt he put on Florida’s taxpayers.
It is idiocy for the Florida state government to refuse to recognize that it was not bad economics that insurance premiums for hurricane coverage in Florida were going to go up - more big hurricanes recently requires increases in insurance reserves or too little reserves next time.
Instead, Crist just put the taxpayers on the hook for it. How can that work? Only if Florida taxes go way up. What’s the difference between higher taxes and higher insurance premiums? Higher taxes are higher and controlled by politics, not economics.
Tallahassee is the last place you’ll ever find CC. He pit stops there but that’s it.
Both—Crist and Bubba~
these rectum Republicans need to be voted out and never allowed to darken the door of a Republican precinct.
You may recall I've had a significant investment into solar equipment on the roof for several years. (I didn't wait until moving into the Governor's Mansion to try alternative energy). I did it before it was fashionable.
Although we've never had a direct hit from a hurricane, none of the three solar pool heaters in my neighborhood survived the past six years of tropical storms. I paid a good sum of money to have the tattered remains of the solar pool mats hauled off the roof two years ago.
The solar water heater has done pretty well, and the PV solar panels are still intact. Of course, I paid another small fortune to have them all removed and reinstalled when the roof was replaced.
To answer your question, I don't have a clue whether the rest of the solar equipment will hold up in a major hurricane. fyi--only the solar water heater has paid for itself over the years. The solar electricity setup was far too expensive to ever recoup the investment.
bttt
Bro' you been smoking that wacky weed? Crist would never consider that
Evidently that is what Republicans of the State of Florida wannted because they chose him over Gallagher in the primary.
When I voted for him in the general election, it was to do all I could to keep the Democrat out.
The way things are going now I don’t know if it made any difference.
Anytime Bill, or Hillary for that matter, Clinton praises you,in my opinion, it is not a good thing.
To me it signifies that you are just as crooked and despicable as they are.
My brother has solar panels to heat the pool and when he gets a new roof, he's tossing them cuz he's sick of the roof leaking around the panels.
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