Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/29/2009 9:14:53 PM PDT by george76
If Boulder is serious about meeting the goal it set in 2002 when city leaders agreed to meet the Kyoto Protocol -- reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels -- it's time for city officials to play hardball in their negotiations with Xcel Energy.
That's the message a group of business, community and environmental leaders hope to convey to the Boulder City Council on Monday when they meet at the Stazio Ballfields to listen to speakers rally the crowd from a pile of faux coal.
With the slender towers of the Valmont Coal Plant as a backdrop, the group plans to deliver an open letter to the city with a simple message: Failure to meet Kyoto is not an option.
Boulder does not own its own utility like many larger cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, so city leaders rarely have much control over where the electricity provided to Boulder comes from. Instead, the city has a franchise agreement with Xcel Energy.
Now, the city is in the process of renegotiating its agreement with Xcel...
The current contract with Xcel expires in August 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
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When these protesters give up electricity and cars, and live in caves, I might listen to them. Until then, they are hypocrites.
The power plant should simply give them what they are asking for.....cut the power off for a couple days...
I was just going to suggest that.
Wouldn’t it be fun if Xcel Energy played “hardball” and just closed everything down and stopped providing electricity to these idiots?
Offer a nuke instead.
Xcel Energy should call their bluff
Coal is very clean and efficient. In fact, we have more coal than there are oil in Middle East. This come to show how smart they are.
Absolutely!! They should do exactly that.
It’s clean unless you think something essential to plant growth is a “pollutant,” carbon dioxide. Maybe we should get the biggest greenhouse gas named another pollutant, water.
In addition, charge them for the new "carbon tax" to offset the CO2 from the power they are receiving from a coal based plant. If they want to play the stupid liberal game, let them have a full salvo.
Ground burst or air burst?
my thoughts exactly. the power company should just have a press conference and say “ these people say we are destroying the planet with our coal powered plants and we must stop, so we’re stopping. have a nice day, and call us when the idiots shut up and sit down.
Save for the science and engineering departments of CU in Boulder, the rest of the libarts loons in that looser city wouldn’t be able to define a watt, let along generate one.
They don’t offer viable solutions for the world we live in.
I’m reminded of when people in peurto rico complained about the bombing range......then complained at the loss of income with it stopped getting used....
Same thing in the EU...they complained about our bases...then complained when we closed a couple of them...
idiots.
Surprise me.
Only if they can do it selectively. My conservative 85 yr old parents would be hit hard.
Buy them a natual gas generator...they can be installed for around 3 grand.
Or invite them to move in with you.
What losers, I don't even know if I could engage in a civil conversation with these people.
Isn't that the truth for most govuhnmen’ bureaucrats, victims and artists?
If Randall Flagg had nuked Boulder in The Stand, would y’all really miss the place?
Give the workers at the Coal Plant the day off.
Repopulate Boulder with people that have common sense.
BOR Disclaimer: Just kidding around with the Libtards.
Oil companies evil, coal companies evil, car companies evil, pharmaceutical companies evil, electric utilities evil, agriculture evil, natural gas evil etc..
These demented enviro-nazi would-be tyrants want the benefits these industries provide without the industries themselves. It's like having a nice bathroom without running water or plumbing. I'm fully convinced these people are insane.
Perhaps EXEL could play power ball with Boulder, by shutting off the electricity?
These people are MORONS...
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These demented enviro-nazi would-be tyrants promote their *smart* electric cars with dirty batteries...
this would be a very convenient time for a power outage.
the announcement......THIS IS WHAT LIFE WILL LOOK LIKE WITHOUT COAL POWER.
If they don’t have bread let them eat cake.
If they don’t want coal let them freeze their ba**s off.
If they don’t want nuclear, let them freeze their a**es off.
Having lived in and around Boulder for most of 35 years one thing I can tell you is that they love their air conditioned malls, restaurants and latte shops. They love their hot tubs, fake fireplaces and 56” (and larger) TV’s.
Boulderites are soft, spoiled brats that could not exist without their comforts and BMW’s.
If they don’t have bread let them eat cake.
If they don’t want coal let them freeze their ba**s off.
If they don’t want nuclear, let them freeze their a**es off.
Having lived in and around Boulder for most of 35 years one thing I can tell you is that they love their air conditioned malls, restaurants and latte shops. They love their hot tubs, fake fireplaces and 56” (and larger) TV’s.
Boulderites are soft, spoiled brats that could not exist without their comforts and BMW’s.
Oh, stop it.
They have as much right as anyone else to the magic cables that are attached to their houses enabling them to plug their battery powered cars in and charge them up.
The stuff that comes through those magic cables for their energy saving lightbulbs, blenders and plasma televisions is produced by a special breed of genetically bred, well fed gerbils that run for four hours each night in humane conditions.
Or, it might be magic unicorns. I don’t recall. But no matter. Doesn’t really matter where the electricity comes from, as long as we can make sure there is no carbon dioxide polluting the atmosphere from evil, capitalistic, money-grubbing coal fired plants.
“We hate coal! We hate coal! We hate coal! We hate coal!”
Can you imagine what our forefathers would have thought if
they could see this? Even most of our grandparents. This apalling ignorance leaves me speechless. How do we fight such willfull luddite ignorance?
“How do we fight such willfull luddite ignorance?”
Destroy the public school system as it exists today. I’m becoming more and more convinced every day that the mind-boggling insanity in our country is and has been spewing out of the public school indoctrination for the past 25 years. I don’t think there is any hope for our country until we stop indoctrinating each new generation into the liberal craziness.
And if they infalte their tires properly and paint their roofs white they will achieve Kumbayah.
I suggest that they go ahead and start..I’ll be along in a while. I need to check my tires and buy some white paint.
Only if they can do it selectively. My conservative 85 yr old parents would be hit hard.
I agree. It kills me when what? a hundred idiots from a city complain and people here want to punish the entire population.
I heard that today. These people are delusional. And dangerous.
When are these hippies going to stop using electricity?
I live in Massachusetts, so I am used to hearing the calls to punish everyone up here.
Including me.
I imagine it is the same for the residents of San Francisco. More than once, the thought that the land of fruit and nuts would slide into the ocean has failed to produce the appropriate levels of horror in me.
So I am guilty too. I guess I must be hoping all of our politicians are there on vacation when it happens.
So, if Xcel refuses to meet Boulder’s demands in the renegotiation, will Boulder fail to resign the agreement? Where, pray tell, will Boulder get its power from? Are they going to build their own power plant, fueled by wind sunshine and rainbows? For the city in Colorado with the highest per capita of residents with college grads and advance degrees, they are the stupidest folks in the state.
Boulder is nuts.
Not just nuts. Self-righteous and nuts.
That's not fair to the (few) residents who don't support the program. I think that the supporters should stop breathing for a couple of days instead.
I’m tired of playing fair. Put it to a referendum, if the majority wants a 7% reduction, break it down by precinct and rolling blackout the precincts that voted for it to achieve the 7%. Children need to learn consequences and Lib’s are children.
Xcel should let them sit in the dark and freeze their asses off in the winter. I’m sure their minds will change.
And - knock me over with a feather - here's ACORN too!
This report makes it clear that supporting half-measures, like voluntary or intensity-based emissions reductions, is like throwing a drowning man a tiny piece of a life jacket,” said Micah Walker Parkin of the Alliance for Affordable Energy...The fourteen organizations supporting Friday’s rally understand that solutions do exist...The rally is being sponsored by ACORN,
I don’t care if they want to live in caves and wear sandals made from hemp and bark...but don’t dare they try to make me live like that as well.
There's an excellent place to start saving emissions. Cut power and gas to these 14 organisations. Let them eat windmills.
Exactly!
Let them take one for the team, lead by example.
They didn't need to know them like that, just a general overview of them. In fact, they didn't even read them as they were only a general discussion chapter in her history book.
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