Posted on 10/20/2006 4:04:22 PM PDT by MadIvan
Regards, Ivan
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This is purely madness. The kiss of death for this initiative has occured however. Klinton has come out in support of it.
There needs to be a tax on the plastic stuff they use to print films onto, The movie isdustry must use thousands of miles of the stuff. All of it has to have a petroleum component. To the extent that the film industry is reliant on petroleum, a tax of $1 per hundred feet of film needs to be assessed to offset the mess made while manufacturing that otherwise useless product.
***There needs to be a tax on the plastic stuff they use to print films onto,***
If they taxed silicone the rest of us wouldn't have to pay taxes.
Correction : Hollywood and Silicon Valley takes on the oilmen.
One of the guys pushing this madness is one of the founders of Sun Microsystems. And a number of his venture capital buds are in on it. Who ever said business men cannot also be Leftist moonbats? Quite frankly, I am surrounded by them!
I think a more appropriate headline would have been: Rich, lazy, limousine Leftists take on the capitalists that make America work. Yeah. I like that.
Julia Roberts? Is she still alive?
What about rising movie ticket prices and the rising incomes of movie stars? Can a single mom with three kids afford to take her kids to a movie? All these people can do is buy DVDs from independent undocumented movie distributors who cut out the excess profits of movie studios. We are not going to cut out these so-called bootleggers, (punishment is not a deterrent) however we can protect the environment by making sure that these copies are recycled many times.
I'm gonna hurl.
Thank god oil prices are tumbling like a stone, way down in the mid-fifties now and continuing to fall. OPEC is panicking right now. Hugo is hysterical. By the time this crud movie hits the big screen, oil ought to be $10 a barrel, which will really make these idiots look like fools - and hit them in their pocketbooks.
Ivan - you know what is really disgusting about this? They ought to be making the oil men into heroes. The go out to the world's most hostile climates and make deals with the world's crummiest dictators, having to balance all that. Then they go out to the deep sea in space-ship-like seacrafts with controls in Houston, same as the space program and drill literally five or ten miles under the sea floor, retrieving oil no one ever thought possible, even five years before. In short, those guys are heros and their great, literally pioneering work against all odds - freak dictators, dangerous climate, limits of science, bona fide danger and risk - and they win and succeed! It just amazes me that Hollywood does not see the dramatic potential in the heroic work of oil men. Instead, they wanna make crummy lawyers and wretched leftist housewives who voted for Clinton into their heros.
This is gonna go down like a bomb. And they could have done something so good.
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As that gas comes to them from Alberta, it is driving up my heating costs as Ontario also gets its gas from Alberta.
For comparison, Ontario gets 51 percent of its electricity using CANDU low temperature unenriched uranium reactors, 19 percent using coal, 23 percent using renewables (mostly hydro with a tiny percentage of wind), 19 percent using coal an 7 percent using gas.
When the current McGuinty Liberal government took over, it ordered the shutdown of all coal plants by 2009 pursuant to an election promise. He was forced to cancel this order because even sweetheart deals with consortiums (including California based Calpine Corp.) would not have produced enough gas powered generating capacity to replace the coal stations' output.
The current plan is to work toward changing the mix to 50 percent nuclear, 43 percent renewables, 6 percent gas and 1 percent gasification.
There has been a cultural change recently that is more accepting of nuclear power so stations will be built or rebuilt to maintain nuke's percentage in the supply of Ontario's increasing demand. Nuke stations are more expensive to bring on line than gas.
Y'know, I am really hating Hollywood types right now.
We all understand...drilling should only occur in a poor man's backyard...not in Hollywood....
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