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Best. Quote. Ever.

Carl Helloooo internet! Another web-log update from yours truly (me).

Ever have one of those days when the sun seems to be shining especially for you? When your hair looks sharp and you don’t spill coffee on your slacks? When you find matching socks right away and didn’t have to look in the dirty clothes bin? When there’s no barking from the dog, and your mom made breakfast with no hog? That’s the kind of fantastic day I’m having.

Why? Well, because I found one of those really great inspirational quotes. You know, the kind of quote that people put at the end of their emails, often in purple “comic sans” font to inform and/or amuse others as they clean out their inboxes.

Quick backstory. The esteemed Rick Boucher, a Congressman from Virginia, is a friend of big utility companies. And why wouldn’t he be? They are his Number One fan…if, by “fan,” you mean cash donators. They coughed up $231,597 for the guy the last time he ran for re-election! Damn. I’ll be your buddy for less than that!

Anyway, some folks have given ol’ Boucher guff about voting for the “American Clean Energy & Security” or “ACES” bill. They said – “Hey Rick! What are you, a climate-hugger or something?” They thought he was getting soft and turning his back on big polluting energy conglomerates.

think of the smoke as big plumes of offsets

Dumbies. Boucher knows what he’s doing. He pointed out in the press that the 2 billion tons of offsets in the ACES bill gets polluters off the hook:

“…Boucher said the bill now includes 2 billion tons of carbon offsets available to industrial emitters to help them satisfy their reduction obligations.

‘That means an electric utility burning coal will not have to reduce the emissions at the plant site. It can just keep burning coal,’ he explained.”

Boo-yah!!! In your face, doubters. With enough offsets, utilities “can just keep burning coal.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. More proof that offsets are a win-win for polluters and politicians. Suck on that, Greenpeace. I wonder if Jean can show me how to put that quote on my emails.

I’m gonna have to friend Boucher on Friendster and “poke” him on Facebook.

Carl

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Love that picture!!! If we leave that alone we wil all choke, and die off!! I am not against coal burning facilities, only the ones that look like the picture above.

There is precipitators that will remove the particulate, and this particulate has been proven on roads for solid base structure.

As far SO2, sulfer dioxide, that could be precipated too, cleaned and sold on the open market as a product rather than a pollutant.

We all need to look further than just the picture above, turning companies towards spending some monies to capture their polluntants, then having those companies regain their monies by selling the polluntants, makes sense to me

mags

My guess that the pollution is mostly steam or more correctly warm air with lots of moisture as you would run steam through a steam turbine if you had lots of it.
Picture is probably taken a cold day as the moisture condense. If you had black smoke you would not take the picture against the sun.