Posted on 06/12/2007 12:49:19 PM PDT by goarmy
People around the country accused Denver on Monday of embracing a "crackpot" scheme to fight global warming after the city's plan drew widespread attention on the Internet.
The reaction was to a Rocky Mountain News story that detailed some of the proposals in Denver's Climate Action Plan, which aims to cut the city's output of gas emissions linked to global warming.
The plan includes several controversial ideas, including making residents who use large amounts of electricity and natural gas pay higher utility fees, boosting insurance rates for people who drive long distances and mandating that homes be energy efficient before they can be sold.
After the online RockyMountainNews.com version of the story was posted as the lead item on Drudgereport.com, the phones started ringing at Mayor John Hickenlooper's office. Many of the calls were from people accusing the city of embracing a radical environmental agenda.
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E-mails to the city and the Rocky from around the country called the plan "crackpot," "loony" and even "stupid."
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The mayor said he would listen to public reaction before moving ahead but he aims to have a plan in place by the end of the year.
Some of the proposals in Denver's plan that might sound radical to residents are already in place in other states. California, for example, charges heavy users of electricity higher rates.
Denver City Councilwoman Kathleen MacKenzie said she admires Hickenlooper for pushing the plan.
"The mayor is willing to use his popularity to ask people to do difficult things," she said. "I hope people are ready to take this on."
A spokeswoman for the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver said that group hasn't taken a position on Denver's proposal to enact energy efficiency standards for new homes.
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I think that comes from Al Gore’s Induction Camp. Our Mayor just got back from one and he is spouting the same plan. Some of it *going forward* is a good idea but retroactive penalties are not a good thing.
They need to worry more about the local brown cloud and less about global warming.
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Earth to Denver: You've got far bigger problems than global warming...
There's a difference between recognizing global warming and understanding the cause of global warming. Just because you understand that the earth is getting a little warmer doesn't mean you believe that the cause is from human activities. Because it's not. It's the sun, stupid!
Apparently, Mork from Ork spread his seed far and wide while in the Denver area. Nanu Nanu.
Glenn Beck ripped this plan apart this morning on his show.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's just like the Arab countries. To divert attention from their squalid domestic situation, Arab leaders bring out the Jewish boogie man to whip the masses into anti-Israeli hysteria.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“The mayor is willing to use his popularity to ask people to do difficult things,” she said. “I hope people are ready to take this on.”
Translation: We are doing it anyway.
After all- its about good intentions and not results.
And furthermore- “If the people continue to object, we will close the TV, and radio stations, and pull the plug on that damn internet”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
PING!
I hear ya :)
The quickest way to cut pollution in the Denver area would be close the airport. Between the taxiing planes, the ground equipment, and the vehicular traffic around the airport, it’s going to be about the largest source of pollution in the area.
“The quickest way to cut pollution in the Denver area would be close the airport. Between the taxiing planes, the ground equipment, and the vehicular traffic around the airport, it’s going to be about the largest source of pollution in the area.”
Locating DIA near the Kansas border didn’t help matters.
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