Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/16/2011 12:31:49 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
Earlier this winter, Oregon regulators sealed a deal to shut down the coal-fired power plant in Boardman by 2020. Now the one other large coal-fired power plant in the Northwest is in the political cross hairs....posted using frpa
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I want to franchise treadmill powered home generators nationwide.
I thought “cross hairs” was now restricted rhetoric. Where is that AZ sheriff when we need him?
Oregon Public Broadcasting? Do they somehow do “broadcasting” without using electricity? I’m missing something I’m sure.
It would be interesting to know where the hell they think that lost capacity will come from. Certainly not dams since they have long been on a campaign to get rid of them. Pretty soon we’ll not only have to build a mexican border fence but also fences around states like Oregon, California and cities like Detroit to keep the third world democrats from polluting the rest of the country.
I’ve wanted to hook all the exercise equipment in
all the gyms in America up to the grid for a long
time, look at that wasted energy.
Soon, Oregon voters will be demanding power from other states to keep them from freezing and expensive utility bills.
It would be interesting to know where the hell they think that lost capacity will come from.
Hopefully from nowhere.
No utility in the business, should sell the state power at any price. They can be self sufficient or freeze in hell, an oxymoron of the first order, not unlike killing a power plant you might need.
PS I didn’t bother reading the article because I’m rushing to get out the door for work, so if I missed anything just ping me to the important stuff, and thanks in advance. Not you Oregon.
That would be a great idea for a Health Club to line up the equipment to a generator and offer a discount for electricity created.
Oregon Public Broadcasting? Do they somehow do “broadcasting” without using electricity? I’m missing something I’m sure.
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Yes, you are. They plan to use their electric cars to power the station...
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Soon, Oregon voters will be demanding power from other states to keep them from freezing and expensive utility bills.
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The entire eastern side of Oregon is prime farm land ... or soon to be prime windmill and solar fsrm land... no one needs that stinking wheat, their groceries stores have planty already.
That would be a great idea for a Health Club to line up the equipment to a generator and offer a discount for electricity created.
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Plus, a condensation station could make lots of fresh drinking water...
At least charge up your cell phone while you jog...
C`mon you guys , where are we gonna plug in these 1 million electric cars the President speaks of ?
At what point does the public push back?
We are taking more generation out of service than we are placing into service.....
.....At the same time, the POTUS is pushing electric cars while making petroleum too expensive.
As with all systems, something has to give in the energy equation for it to balance out. I don't think too many people are going to accept living like peasants in the 17th century.
We will see a new meaning for the phrase "Blood for Oil" in the not too distant future IMHO. And I don't mean war in the middle east. There will be riots over energy. Coal and oil will be back in favor when this is all said and done. Nuclear too, but it will take longer to increase capacity.
If the damn American and Liberty hating leftist enviro wackos would get out of the way, we could ramp up the Nuclear power in a year.
We had 110 units (each power reactor at each facility) up until 40 years ago, then the enviro wacko traitorous leftist communist democrats used the court systems and the epa to stop power production.
They need to be shot, and we need to start building power.
We could build safe power plants from scratch to finish within a year, if the Unions, Courts and other leftists could be put into their place. We probably could actually do it quicker, but we need to realize the national emergency.
Have you not read Atlas Shrugged? When the shortages begin to hit, the government will start a propaganda campaign against the greedy industrialists who are hoarding all the electricity. Rationing will begin, and the capitalists will be denied the opportunity to (legally) purchase power to keep their businesses up and running.
Well, if they don’t want coal-fired plants, then they should complete construction on the 4 WHOOPS nukie plants they shut down in the 80’s.
I worked on WPPSS #3 as a pipefitter. It was 70% complete and they shut it down. Purged all the piping so they could re-start construction at a later date. Uhhh, It’s later.
WA ping
A measure debated Tuesday in Olympia would require the privately-owned plant in Centralia, Washington to stop burning coal by 2020 as well.
Well, I'm in Oregon. This article that you didn't read was about a coal plant in WASHINGTON being DEBATED in OLYMPIA. Next time you don't read the article, please try to not tell an entire state not to reply to you, wherever it is you're from. You won't look so ignorant next time, FRiend.
No, I haven’t, but should have. The book was published the year before I graduated from high school, but I was interested in pursuing my desire to fly and fight in the USAF.
Back in the day, when there were adults in charge, and one did not have to be so concerned about where the country was headed, one could and should be apolitical in the service of ones country.
Now that appears to be nearly impossible.
please try to not tell an entire state not to reply to you,
Oops, bad sentence structure, or something like that. Didn’t mean Oregonian’s, was referring to the STATE itself, as an entity that would shut down a power plant for dubious reasons, and immoral porpoises. AND the same STATE that years ago would not let people pump their own gasoline, that Oregon.
...and now we find out it’s Washington all along. Hey I was rushed, no pun intended. Enough of the excuses.
I read Atlas Shrugged years ago and if the idiots today manage to kill off ready availability of power to fuel their blogs, brew their latte and enable their texting then I think the useful idiots who blindly follow the idiots will be thinking more along the line of moving against their democrat buddies. There is a larger conservative population in Oregon than a lot of people believe. I wonder if the democrat party will be supporting the revolution in the streets that their dictatorial policies will bring about in the same way that they support the MB in Egypt.
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The dream of the Democrats is to make us all live in shantytowns and eat mudcakes to dull the pangs of hunger.
Meanwhile, the commie elite relish in the rare leftover technologies of the old world.
“I don’t think too many people are going to accept living like peasants in the 17th century.”
You would be surprised. There are millions of thoroughly brainwashed people in this country. They will do absolutely everything that the elite tell them to do, even sacrifice themselves for the “greater good” without thinking so much as a single thought. How else can we explain the continued existence of Obama supporters?
They haven't felt the pain of sacrifice yet.
Once they do, I believe a lot (not all) will change their minds.
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