Posted on 08/27/2017 3:18:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
I do hope that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo runs for president in 2020, and further that he is the Democratic nominee. He appears determined to make upstate New York into the East Germany of America by his intransigent refusal to allow fracking to produce natural gas, this keeping shale gas-rich upstate New York from enjoying the same kind of prosperity as western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Cuomo’s anti-gas bias extends to using state power to block natural gas pipelines intended to serve New England that have received federal approval. So lots of New Englanders will have continue using more expensive and higher polluting fuel oil for winter heat.
I hope Cuomo runs on his anti-gas stance: he’ll lose Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure; possibly Colorado, too, and likely New Hampshire and maybe even Massachusetts and Maine.
The scientific case against all the anti-fracking claims of the environmental/Hollywood left continues to collapse more fully than an undercooked soufflé. The latest piece of evidence is a report from Resources for the Future, a centrist environmental group that is one of the oldest environmental organizations in the country, founded way back in 1947 by Fairfield Osborn, who was actually a Malthusian alarmist, thus making today’s RFF a curiosity in that is perhaps the only environmental organization that moved away from the left over its history.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
He’s running. The reason he didn’t run in 2016, according to the New York Post, was that he believed 3016 was a Republican year and he wants to be the guy who takes the White House back for Dhimmicraps in 2020.
The presidential election process is already 2 years long; it immediately begins after the mid-terms.
Cuomo created a $750 million white elephant factory in Upstate NY, and gave it to Elon Musk who said he was going to build state-of-the-art solar panels.
As of now, rumor is the factory is being rented to a joint venture with Panasonic who is going to bring old equipment from Malaysia.
Another symbol of corruption and destructive progressive economic planning, thanks to Cuomo
Yes. Three months for primaries and four for the general.
No offense to anyone who might fit the description but ... no New York Italian with a strong NY accent and mob ties is ever going to carry mid-west or western states. Cuomo has a snowball’s chance in Hades.
What is this doctrinaire resistance that liberals have towards the use of natural gas, or methane, when it come to providing a cheap, clean power source? Jimmy Carter, back in 1977, decreed that all the gas mantle yard lights be turned off, and all similar sky beacons which used natural gas as a light source, be turned off? Natural gas was remarkably cheap back then, but suddenly a growing market for its consumption was cut off, presumedly to discourage further exploration and even further expansion of that particular market. The further distribution of natural gas through gas pipelines was also restricted, leaving much of the Northeast totally dependent on high and rising prices of fuel oil, and near-blackouts or freezing homes all through the region. Maine and New Hampshire still have little in the way of natural gas supply and distribution lines, leading to an unreasonably high dependence on fuel oil.
Some, but by no means nearly enough, coal plants have been converted to utilize natural gas where it is easily accessible, but much more of our energy generation could be converted to natural gas. Apparently the liberals do not want access to cheap and abundant energy, which is the wellspring of prosperity everywhere.
Nuclear energy could still be an option, but not by using the older design of light-water uranium-fueled reactors. There is in at least trial-level designs that are called Molten Salt Thorium-fueled atomic reactors, which do NOT have many of the disadvantages of the older uranium-fueled reactors, in that a runaway core overheat is virtually impossible, the residue of the spent fuel does not have an atomic half-life stretching into centuries. In fact, these thorium reactors can use some of this still active fissile radioactive material to kickstart the reaction, and burn it up at a much faster rate than waiting for natural conversion through atomic decay.
Never happen!
Too many 'Consultants' and MSM types getting rich from the perpetual campaign industry.
As a wise friend once pointed out to me: "Nobody from New Jersey who looks and sounds like he's from New Jersey is going to win more than a couple of states west of the Delaware River."
I have a very good friend in NJ too and that is basically what she said to me about Christie.
“Middle America isn’t going to vote for Tony Soprano.”
Cuomo would come off even worse than Christie IMO.
She says almost everyone in NJ hates Christie now FWIW.
“I hope Cuomo runs on his anti-gas stance: he’ll lose Pennsylvania and Ohio for sure; possibly Colorado, too, and likely New Hampshire and maybe even Massachusetts and Maine.”
And Arkansas, the Fayetteville shale region.
Run, Prince Andrew, Run!
I want him and DeBlabio out of my state.
True. The whole damn country operates because of some special interest group(s). Tax reform you say? Not in my patch!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.