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Austin, Texas is Doing Something Really Spectacular
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Posted on 12/19/2011 5:13:23 PM PST by matt04
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From the SPAMmers at care2. And what does the mayor of the People's Republic of Austin plan replacing the coal generated power with, can't be nuclear or natural gas. Wind? Solar? Magic?
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:13:28 PM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
Does the Austin city tapwater still smell like a fishtank each summer? Is there still a brownout every night between about 2:30 AM and 4:45 AM?
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:16:11 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: matt04
No, he plans to just turn the power OFF!
What a brilliant idea?
Austin is full of idiots!
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:16:11 PM PST
by
9422WMR
To: matt04
I don't have any problem with Austin shutting down. Our liberties will be safer.
/johnny
To: matt04
Mayor Leffingwell? I’ve been to Austin before. Are you sure it’s not Leftwinghell? Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
To: matt04
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:23:01 PM PST
by
freebilly
To: matt04
Austin is the San Francisco of Texas. Everybody should quit driving cars and riding busses and take their bikes everywhere. Unplug the TV, Laptop, Cell Phones and go without air conditioning in the middle of a 99 degree summer with 90 percent humidity. Then these Liberal turds would know to respect Fossil Fuels-based energy. What a stupid Mayor.
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:23:51 PM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: matt04
Magic, probably. He’s one of the worst mayors we’ve had in recent years, and is about to ban not only plastic grocery bags, but paper ones, too. A veritable jackass all around.
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:25:55 PM PST
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: broken_arrow1
I think we should support the mayor’s initiative. More resources for the rest of us and let them wallow in their stupidity.
To: matt04
The problem is that we taxpayers from across Texas are subsidizing “clean power” for them
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:29:57 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: matt04
Every gorgeous face has a blemish...Texas has Austin.
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:32:29 PM PST
by
IrishPennant
(We don't want to work so we go to work to make enough money not to work...Huh?)
To: matt04
How many Texans will this place out of work?
and what kind of jobs does this piece of slime intend to provide.
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:36:26 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: cweese
Austin Energy is about to raise the rates for electricity too, probably in part because of phasing out coal plants and replacing them with unreliable wind turbines. I see more rolling brownouts ahead like Austin had last winter.
On top of that, they propose to charge people with big houses more per kilowatt than those with small houses.
To: mplsconservative
I think it’s Mayor Like-effing-hell.
Like-effing-hell he’s going to power the city without coal.
To: Venturer
Jobs in the standby generator installation and maintenance field, until they outlaw those also.
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:44:41 PM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
So how will they be able to charge up all their Priuses?
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:49:31 PM PST
by
newheart
(Newt's a loose cannon, but at least he knows who the real target is.)
To: matt04
And what does the mayor of the People's Republic of Austin plan replacing the coal generated power with, can't be nuclear or natural gas.
Less than 25% of Austin Energy's output is from coal. The majority is natural gas and nuclear, and that's not going to change anytime soon. This was just an announcement to pretend to be doing something.
To: Fightin Whitey
That works too. :) I think I’ll search for a pic of the guy. I bet he’s the twin to R.T. Rybak, mayor wonder boy of Minneapolis.
To: matt04
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posted on
12/19/2011 5:51:56 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Psalm 144
Does the Austin city tapwater still smell like a fishtank each summer? Is there still a brownout every night between about 2:30 AM and 4:45 AM?
Occasionally the water smells like fresh-cut grass.
The only brownouts are either state-wide "rolling" brownouts controlled by ERCOT, or weather-related. Seems we have a lot of folks that bitch and moan about the city/energy crews trimming trees back from the power lines, with the result that a good windstorm or icestorm will knock out power. Apparently keeping tree branches trimmed somehow devalues your property or hurts the environment or something.
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