Texans is 564 million BTU per year while the per capita energy usage for Californians is 227 million BTU per year.
My guess is, the use of air conditioners to survive in the Texas heat accounts for the added use of electricty.
Anyone who has been in Austin or Dallas in June knows what I mean.
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 02:48 AMThank God for Cindy Sheehan.
American "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other activists arrived here Saturday to draw attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at the remote site.
Sheehan is among 12 human rights and anti-war activists who will travel across this Caribbean island next week, arriving at the main gate of the Guantanamo base in eastern Cuba on Thursday — five years after the first prisoners were flown in.
Her activism shows the world that not all Murikans have embraced the policies of the Bush administration.
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 02:54 AMRevealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html
Judith,
Put this up on my blog this morning.
Looks like Murika's 51st state plans to do what Bushco wants to do, but fears he will be dragged out by the scruff of his neck should he use new-qu-lar technology in such a way.
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 03:48 AMDemocratic Governors in two of the top three users. Two Democratic senators in ND at four. Three out of the five at the bottom had Republican governors with the least two run by the GOP. The other two elected GOP governors in the next two years. This statistic is not a very good piece for your readership. The author does write..."Honestly, all the states have a along way to go to achieve sustainability."
Another thing to remember about California, they needed Enron to supply them with electricity in the summer of 2001 when their consumption created those famous rolling blackouts. Great to let others produce your power so you can protect your state's environment at the others expense. Such a nice piece of taking care of the Union. How generous of those red states to provide power to those less "fortunate" blue states.
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 04:38 AMMaybe if we spoke in terms of purple states we could unite our great country again.
Why do you hate America?
Posted by TIKI AL at January 7, 2007 05:03 AMThat looks like a "why do you beat your wife" question Tiki. I don't. And favoring the GOP doesn't make me an America hater.
Judith here constantly urges me to post on a site with fellow losers. Are you a loser for posting here before November? We, you and I were both here before the election. I wasn't here as a winner. My side had the people's ear moreso before, but the November vote changed little in America. As y'all have been blogging, the new leadership isn't doing very many thing y'all wanted them to do so far. They're not going to be able to do very many things y'all voted for them to do. They will oppose the president in their speech and writings, but how are they voting.
Look, we have some opposing views on how this country should be run. That doesn't make either of us a loser or less American.
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 05:15 AMChristopher, it was also on this morning news. Iran threatens Israel with what will happen if they even attempt such an attack. The fix is in. George, you may want to send more than 20,000 troops. You may want to send in a couple hundred thousand, because you are going to need that many if you and Israel keep fucking around with the middle east.
Posted by Judith at January 7, 2007 05:21 AMBy God, those nasty Democrats have been in office just five days and are already failures, according to peter anyway. Let's throw the bums out and bring back the very successful "do nothing Republican Congress."
Posted by Judith at January 7, 2007 05:28 AMReponse to earlier comment by Baggy:
"The NOLA types are wards of the state and have been for decades. That is the problem with the population of NOLA: unable to do for themselves, they wait around for someone to do for them...waste products of Leftist / nanny-state experiment." Posted by Baggy
You know, if there was ever an example of the difference of attitude between a conservative and a liberal, the comment above is it. If I remember correctly, we are asked to be our brother's keepers.
I am so sick of people like you. You are smug, arrogant and lacking in the ability to put yourself in another's position and feel empathy. When in the fuck is the last time you helped at a center for the homeless, or fed some poor children, or visited a home for the elderly? Tell me something Baggy, what goes through your mind when you see a poor family on the street? Your heart has turned to stone, and I have nothing but pity for you. You better pray that life continues to be good for you.
"unable to do for themselves, they wait around for someone to do for them..."
So, you admit some people are "unable to do for themselves." Well, by God, let's just kick them to the curb or maybe we can hasten their demise by sending them to a concentration camp to die. You are one despicable motherf**ker.
"And, by-the-way, the faith-based organizations did a wonderful job all along the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina." Posted by Baggy
Baggy, and did you help in anyway? Did you give your money to the faith-based organizations or your time? If you think social interest should be accomplished through voluntary giving exclusively, when is the last time you gave? Or, is your distain for those less fortunate so encompassing that you would rather eat s*it than lend a helping hand?
..the new leadership isn't doing very many thing y'all wanted them to do so far..
The new leadership hasn't been in office a full week yet, you moron.
Give them a chance to clean up the neglect left behind from 12 years of one-party rule.
Jeez.
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 06:45 AM
Another thing to remember about California, they needed Enron to supply them with electricity in the summer of 2001 when their consumption created those famous rolling blackouts. Great to let others produce your power so you can protect your state's environment at the others expense. Such a nice piece of taking care of the Union. How generous of those red states to provide power to those less "fortunate" blue states.
What's missing from these assertions? Anyone? Skilling, Fastow, Lay - do those names ring a bell? petey, did you even understand what the Enron scandal was about? Don't bother answering, because clearly, you did not.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 7, 2007 06:54 AMMy guess is, the use of air conditioners to survive in the Texas heat accounts for the added use of electricty.
I'd be willing to wager there are more a/c's in CA than Texas, Christopher. As Mary says in her post:
What Texas is doing is forcing Texans to pay more to get the same services Californians get for less than half the price.
And that's sick. But, as anyone who's read Molly Ivins knows, that's been the Texas way forever.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 7, 2007 07:04 AM"Why do you hate America?"
Tiki Al, they love America. They just don't like the people that live here. ;)
Posted by Alex at January 7, 2007 07:21 AMIsn't peter's complete unvarnished ignorance of the most basic facts astonishing?
Thank God employment in BushAmerica has been reduced to pressing buttons with smiling hamburgers on them, or the population would be destitute.
Leave it to Texas and its "conservatives" to make huge investments in producing exactly what we as a nation, world and species can no longer afford---greenhouse gases. Vile turds.
Posted by euzoius at January 7, 2007 07:42 AMThe problem in Tex-ass is that they just don't get enough sunshine for alternative forms of energy.
Democratic Governors in two of the top three users. Two Democratic senators in ND at four. Three out of the five at the bottom had Republican governors with the least two run by the GOP. The other two elected GOP governors in the next two years.
What the hell are you talking about? Shouldn't you ramble on about some subject?
But, as anyone who's read Molly Ivins knows, that's been the Texas way forever.
Having spent time in Tex-ass, I can tell you that the best part of that state are the Hispanics.
They just don't like the people that live here.
That pretty well sums it up.
Posted by phidipides at January 7, 2007 07:54 AMVery interesting and disturbing reporting on the Negroponte reassignment to State over at Col. Lang's Sic Semper Tyrannis today.
The post argues that Negroponte was "involutarily" tranferred because he "flatly refused" Cheney's demands for more NSA domestic spying. The new admiral taking over will supposedly be more friendly to Deadeye's demands.
All this is contrary to recent NYT reports, whose reporters (as usual) had the wool pulled over their eyes by Bushco.
Pat Leahy has a big job. Large numbers of Americans are being illegally surveilled.
Posted by euzoius at January 7, 2007 08:36 AMHaving spent time in Tex-ass, I can tell you that the best part of that state are the Hispanics.
For me, the best thing in Tejas is the Mexican food. Beyond that, the state is just a massive wasteland.
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 08:37 AMPelosi Hints at Denying Bush Iraq Funds
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said newly empowered Democrats will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, hinting they could deny funding if he seeks additional troops.
"If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request, we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now," she said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"The American people and the Congress support those troops. We will not abandon them. But if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions," said Pelosi, D-Calif.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq
Is that enough leadership for you, Petey?
Posted by Christopher at January 7, 2007 08:42 AMI wonder if Bush is encouraging Israel to nuke Iran so that he can accomplish his agenda AND try to make the Democrats look soft on "threats". Nah, I'm just being cynical...
Posted by Roy Batty at January 7, 2007 08:44 AMeuzoius, Laura Rozen and Michael Crowley are hearing different rumours about Negroponte. Talking Points Memo pointed those out this morning, I think. Jeff Huber and Larry Johnson have weighed in as well. And Americablog is claiming that Condi will be blamed for the Saddam lynching fiasco. It'll be interesting to see what this latest game of musical chairs means in the near future.
In my fevered nightmares and petey's wet dreams, the "surge" crap was a smokescreen for an Iran strike. The much-denied rumours of Israel attacking nuke sites were a trial balloon, I'll bet.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 7, 2007 08:45 AMI have to admire the resident trolls. Even when they HAVEN"T posted on a thread, they manage to direct much of the discussion. Perhaps they ARE earning their pay!
To quote one of my perversely favorite 1930s literary series, Doc Savage, Man of Bronze, a paean to early 20th century American fascism and truly bad writing, "there's white brains behind this, Doc!"
Why do so many threads degenerate into troll bashing, yet overwhelmingly respond to their inarticulate maunderings? Can we please step over the troll droppings and have an intelligent discussion?
Posted by DeminNewJ at January 7, 2007 08:50 AMI saw the story on Israel's plans to use tactical nuclear weapons on Iran too, Judith. Okay, maybe it is just "a contingency plan". Everybody has plans.
But if it is closer to the front-burner (and I suspect it is given the Cheney/Bush attitude salted in the media) it is a dangerous development.
I think it was only a few weeks ago Administration personnel were saying words to the effect, "We are serious out Iranian nuclear proliferation. Everything is on the table, but we have no plans to attack Iran at this time. Of course, if Israel decided to make the Iranian nuclear program go away, we would have no objection."
That sort of threat is familiar and typical of the Cheney/Bush administration.
And why an Navy admiral to take over a desert war after kicking Army Gen. Casey upstairs?
I think a naval assault and/or blockade of Iran is in the making, so who better than a Navy guy.
Posted by gtash at January 7, 2007 09:21 AMThanks for the tips, coyote, although it seems that Larry Johnson (No Quarter) is in essential agreement that Deadeye wanted Negroponte out for one reason or another.
It is becoming increasingly certain that Buschco will attack Iran. Deadeye's hand-picked men are running every intelligence agency we have. We are not just going to escalate in Iraq, we are going to instigate a regional war.
Only the Democrats in Congress can stop the sociopathic Nero now.
Posted by euzoius at January 7, 2007 09:24 AMIf indeed Israel is contemplating actually inacting a war plan to strike Iran, Bush's move to send the warships steaming over to the Gulf to, at the very least blockade Iran's ability to trade & occupy the area would make sense - Israel & the US have acted in concert moreso than not in history. If indeed Israel's plans are imminent (I don't think so) then Bush's resistence to announce his planned surge might reflect his waiting for Israel to make the first move.
Next, the rumors are flying that Cheney is going to develop a hangnail and resign from complications. Condi would be tapped to move over to OVP.
Posted by mainsailset at January 7, 2007 09:58 AMWTF are the repukes trying to accomplish by changing the meme. FAUX news this morning has the meme out on social security reform and the immigration issue. Is it only to make the Dems look bad?
First of all, social security is off the table, no privatization.
However, pension reform would be a boon to Democrats.
We also have Pat Robertson and the fundies starting to join the 'fray' on immigration.
From Migra Matters:
It appears that "Families First in Immigration" will be offering nothing new to the debate that has not been heard from the "enforcement only" crowd already. Rather than bringing a new perspective, based upon scripture and Christian moral tenants, they will be using their power of the pulpit to bring the same kind of zealous fervor to the immigration debate they have brought to debates about other issues such as gay rights and stem cell research. - Duke1676
Of course, this is what I wanted to see, a showdown on what is just. People have seen through both the gay rights issue and stem cell research. Can immigration be far behind?
Oh yeah repukes: It's Iraq, stupid!
Posted by Seven of Six at January 7, 2007 10:02 AMit would not be the first time that the usg used swabbies to orchestrate a war.
in fact, the last great defeat of the usa was administered by an admiral swabbie... ULYSSES GRANT SHARP.
many remember general westmoreland. but sharp was his boss.
now, why was it that the navy had command of us forces in seasia? because lbj and mac determined that we were going to use carrier-launched aircraft to bomb the usa to victory...and that no slanty-eyed "gooks" were going to be able to resist that level of naval bombardment.
sharp was cincpac from the overt invasion of vietnam in 1964 until 1968.
in the formal chain of command, he was the guy in charge of macv.
however, when you know that the chairman of the jcs, wheeler, and secdef mac were routinely dealing with westmoreland directly, outside of the chain of command, then you can understand the clusterfuck that was vietnam.
when you learn of another swabbie admiral assuming command of a ground war, you can assure yourself that carrier-launched aircraft and cruise missiles are on the hor d'oevres platter. and you can assure yourself that there is a distinct possibility that new invasive battle plans are being implemented.
the real disbursement of homicidal assets to watch for is the usaf at diego garcia, qatar. watch for deployment of b52's.
and this latest reconfiguratioon will be just another clusterfuck, because our nouveau lbj, and all the other courtiers, will be be the real "managers".
ah, those harvard mba's.
Posted by albertchampion at January 7, 2007 11:53 AMYou people with your short memmory of the rolling blackouts in California. The $800.00 electric bills for those who got electricity. Enron to the rescue, Texas will help the state out. So will Nevada, and Utah and Arizona and Idaho. California outed their electricity production and wondered why they didn't have any when they needed it. Gray Davis wondered about the massive overcharges to the state. It helped him get recalled and Arnold elected governor. The great California, fifth largest economy in the world begging for electicity from anyone. Maybe they needed 17 more Coal burning power plants.
The Enron/Arthur Anderson thing was about many accounting abuses. Not following GAP. They weren't about the lack of electicity in California. They didn't create the shortage there. California, the blue state, is third from the bottom on the link Mary provided in usage.
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 12:51 PMWait Until No One's Paying Attention...
I thought this was interesting:
The New York Times' Carl Hulse reports: (emphasis added)
During four decades of Democratic rule ending in 1994, committee chairmen amassed almost unchallenged authority, often becoming more feared and influential than the elected leadership. They were nearly impossible to budge from their perches, and the concept of term limits was unimaginable. In a move that caught some new Democratic chairmen by surprise, House rules pushed through by the Democrats this week retained the six-year limit on chairmen imposed by Republicans, but the leadership reassured lawmakers they would revisit the restrictions when there was less attention focused on the dawn of the Democratic era.
So, ya know, when no one's payin' attention, we'll change the term-limit rule back to the way it was when we last ran da House...
As they say in Chicago, Punch 10.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells nearly as powerful as embryonic stem cells can be found in the amniotic fluid that protects babies in the womb, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
They used them to create muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells in the laboratory and said they believe the placenta and amniotic fluid can provide one more source of the valued cells, which scientists hope will someday transform medicine.
They would also provide a non-controversial source of the cells, which are found with difficulty throughout the body and in days-old embryos.
More to chew on
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 12:57 PMHey Paradox,
More open meetings huh...
Reporters and TV news cameras will be banned from almost all of former Vice President Al Gore's appearance Jan. 23 in Sioux Falls.
Gore is the Boe Forum speaker at Augustana College and plans a talk called "Thinking Green: Economic Strategy for the 21st Century."
Kalee Kreider, a Gore staffer in Nashville, confirmed by e-mail that news media will be asked to leave his talk after the introduction and that Gore will not hold a press conference.
Gore has agreed to meet with college and high school students before the speech, said Arthur Huseboe, executive director of Augustana's Center for Western Studies, which sponsors the forum.
Would think that anyone lecturing on "inconvenient truths" would want that message to receive the widest possible dissemination. However, apparently Gore plans on saying something for which he does not want to be held accountable, especially since the former VP is rumored to be considering another run at the Presidency.
First Apple now this. Is he cracking up?
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 01:00 PMhey needed Enron to supply them with electricity in the summer of 2001 when their consumption created those famous rolling blackouts.
California outed their electricity production and wondered why they didn't have any when they needed it.
I may be misunderstanding your point, but uh.. Enron created the need for those blackouts...by design. Consumption wasn't the problem (yes, consumption was high but could've been handled), supply was... and the short supply was artificially created by Enron.
Posted by Simp at January 7, 2007 01:32 PMMaybe they needed 17 more Coal burning power plants.
Maybe they needed republi-cons to stop giving tax breaks to carbon dealers and invest in R&D for green technologies under the Ray-gun administration?
The Enron/Arthur Anderson thing was about many accounting abuses.
It was about republi-con deregulation, lack of oversight and corporate enrichment.
Stem cells nearly as powerful as embryonic stem cells can be found in the amniotic fluid that protects babies in the womb
1 in 200 women having the amniotic fluid collected abort the baby. Why do you want to kill babies to keep fertilized cells alive that are then thrown in the trash? Does your jesus know you want to kill babies? As you know, the thought is the deed according to god...you baby murderer. Jesus, you baby killers make me ill. It's one thing if a woman wants to end her preganancy, but you want to force it on people to get stem cells.
Reporters and TV news cameras will be banned from almost all of former Vice President Al Gore's appearance
Link please, baby killer. Besides, Al Gore is a private citizen. He is not running for anything. He can do what the fuck he wants to. No one, absolutely no one, beats republi-cons in this stuff. Get you republi-con voter registration (next to your White Power and Neo-Nazi card) put on a "Bring the Troops Home" t-shirt, and try to get into any republi-con event.
Posted by phidipides at January 7, 2007 01:36 PMHey Phid, here's your link...never killed any babies, but that's not your point.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070107/NEWS01/701070303/1001/NEWS
A general curculation newspaper.
Amazing the things Bill Clinton signed into law being blamed on the GOP. I guess we forced him to sign them, he just wasn't that strong willed was he. Shut down Congress, but just had to sign all those de-regs, just had to.
Enron did not create California's shortages Simp. The state did that by themselves. They closed down plants without replacing them.
Posted by peter at January 7, 2007 01:49 PMpeter, too bad you didn't read my other link in this piece. As Simp said, Enron was a major factor in creating the blackouts by colluding with other suppliers to take power plants offline.
The way California got itself out of this supply trap was to invest heavily in efficiency.
From my piece:
For an example of how incredibly effective energy efficiency is in making better use of the existing capacity, you only need to look at what happened in California in 2000-2001. During that year, California started to experience rolling blackouts and rapidly growing energy costs. At the time, many people said that California had been under-investing in new power plants and that the blackouts were the result of too many people using too much energy for the capacity of the system.* They said that for California to get out of this crisis it would take increasing capacity by 83% over what was currently in use or as Dick Cheney said, California was going to have to build one new power plant per week to keep up with the demand. What California did instead was to put together a crash energy efficiency program that stopped the crisis in its tracks.
The state poured $1 billion in emergency funding into a newly invigorated set of incentive programs dubbed "Flex Your Power." And Californians flexed, big-time. In short order, they replaced nearly eight million lightbulbs with [compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)] in their homes. Cities and towns installed thousands of light-emitting diode (LED) traffic lights, which use less than half as much electricity as the incandescent lamps they replaced. Factories swapped out thousands of old motors for more-efficient new ones.
The program resulted in a reduction in energy used by enough to provide all of Los Angeles’ daily needs. And all those lightbulbs, traffic lights and motors replaced continue to save on energy even today long after the crisis is over. Although California is the largest state in the union, the average energy consumption per capita is one of the lowest of all the states as Californians use about 7,000 kwh/person compared to the national average of 12,000 kwh/person. Just think of what could be recovered in costs if everyone was as efficient as Californians in their energy usage.
Posted by Mary at January 7, 2007 01:54 PM"That looks like a "why do you beat your wife" question Tiki."
How long have you had this fantasy about wife beating? Please get some help before you act upon it.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 7, 2007 01:56 PMpeter, you are totally clueless about what happened in California. Enron conspired to creat the blackouts and they raked in huge bucks for their efforts. Here's another piece I wrote when Enron was forced to disclose their internal documents on what they had been doing. The LA Times reported the following in Feb 2005:
Suggestions that Enron's plans to exploit the energy marketplace as much as three years before the 2000-01 energy crisis jarred some officials, who recalled how Enron executives were traveling the country about the same time making a case to deregulate the marketplace.
"Enron put out the most polished presentations, the glossy materials, the things they put out to every policymaker in the West," said Eric Saltmarsh, executive director of California's Electricity Oversight Board.
"To know that it was basically a scam as far back as that says it wasn't just a fraud on the marketplace in 2000 and 2001, it was really a fraudulent ambition in creating what became of the California marketplace," Saltmarsh said. "In that sense, the [marketplace deregulation] was in some respects set up to fail."
You might actually look at the legitimate lawsuits that have been spawned from their actions before you speak up again about this issue.
Here's more of the LA Times article that exposed their conspiracy.
Posted by Mary at January 7, 2007 02:06 PMThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a report in March 2003 which found that Enron specifically was involved in manipulating the western electricity supply, thus bringing about the crisis. FERC also recommended that Enron be forced to disgorge its "profits" from these unlawful tactics.
Remember all those cute names Enron traders gave to their "trading" tactics: Deathstar, Fat Boy, and Get Shorty? peter doesn't.
Of course the point of the post was decrying the fast tracking of 17 new Texas COAL BURNING plants (i.e. greenhouse gas creating), but that went unnoticed by the champion kool-aid drinker.
Ignoramus or Liar? you decide.
Posted by euzoius at January 7, 2007 02:12 PMA general curculation newspaper.
I still don't get your point. He is having a press conference. He wants them out becuase of copyright issues. If he has material and it's use precludes media, he has to follow it. My god, I have a copyright issue with an instrument that allows me to collect data, but I can't discuss the individual items with any person. Your argument is a nonstarter, baby killer.
Amazing the things Bill Clinton signed into law being blamed on the GOP.
I agree. Clinton should have vetoed that bill. I've always claimed he was republi-con lite. Maybe what you are really concerned with is that the republi-cons did nothing to prevent the problem, and profited from it. Oh yes, they profited from it really big.
Ignoramus or Liar?
Do we have to pick just one option?
Posted by phidipides at January 7, 2007 02:47 PMthe enron story is so much more complex than can be discussed here in the finest detail.
suffice it to say that the initial crime was the advancement of the notion that electrical power generation, high voltage transmission, and lower voltage distribution was suitable for deregulation. this principal conspirators for this crime were professors at harvard's jfk school of government.
follow the money is always the investigative mantra. but in the case of enron and the deregulation of the electrical industry, and harvard's fomenting role in it, appears to have gone unexamined.
major player in enron stock was the harvard endowment. major money manager for the endowment was a guy by the name of herb winocur. i think he also sat on the harvard board of overseers. and was on the enron board of directors. it is my recollection that harvard endowment sold out at the top. winocur eventually resigned from the hboo. but by and large, the role of harvard in creating the deregulation of electricity, and the largesse that the harvard endowment reaped from this scheme, has gone undiscussed. harvard has as much power as aipac in regulating reportage.
living in houston, having worked with many of the natural gas pipeline entities that became part of enron, i can tell you that enron was a rip-off outfit from the get-go. oh, the stories i could tell you about how ken lay destroyed the infrastructure of the ngpipeline entities after they were acquired, creating enron. of course, none of this was ever discussed.
the energy trading business was the most extraordinary scam. it was so obvious. it was little more than one finger on your hand talking to another on your hand. completely fraudulent trading transactions.
my best recollections go back into the early 1990's when enron was touting itself as the expert at managing ng pipelines...and an energy management operation based on that. quite frankly, enron hadn't a clue.
all smoke and mirrors.
someone who may be able to tell you more about this is catherine austin fitts. i think you can find her at solari.com.
cheers.
Posted by albertchampion at January 7, 2007 04:14 PMThe future belongs to the efficient.
Sorta leaves peter out.
However, no one's worthless. They can always serve as a bad example.
Thanks, troll, for another example from our National Laboratory for Bad Government.
Posted by Pvt. Keepout at January 7, 2007 06:16 PMAs y'all have been blogging, the new leadership isn't doing very many thing y'all wanted them to do so far.
Good Lord, Pelosi just took the gavel on Jan 2nd....it's Jan 7th.
I believe in psychiatric circles, this is considered "disassembling." Good luck with that, petey.
Posted by at January 7, 2007 06:26 PMUS (climate) Zone Changes. Press play.
Kinda spooky.
Seems Marty Kaplan over at HuffingtonPost has a few suggestions for Bush and how to raise one billion dollars. He has some great ideas.
How To Find A Billion Dollars To Pay For An Iraqi Jobs Program
I think it's swell that the President wants those militiamen in Iraq to swap their rifles for brooms and paintbrushes. (It'd be heartwarming if he's extend his newfound zeal for public sector jobs programs to American inner cities plagued by horrendous youth unemployment and gang violence, but set that aside for now.)
Bush's Iraqi jobs program is reportedly going to cost a billion dollars -- a billion American dollars. Where should that money come from?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/how-to-find-a-billion-dol_b_38018.html
Posted by Judith at January 7, 2007 08:56 PMBush's Iraqi jobs program is reportedly going to cost a billion dollars -- a billion American dollars. Where should that money come from?
Something tells me this is a Halliburton CEO jobs training program. Give them a billion no-bid contract and the CEO's job training will be all about keeping as much of the billion as possible.
Posted by phidipides at January 7, 2007 10:12 PMPhidipides, well if we go by past history, Halliburton will be one billion dollars richer shortly.
I don't know if PBS is airing this film again, but
if you have a chance to view this story, or can get a copy of the film, I would strongly suggest you do. One line in the film from an American reporter struck me as not only true, but a warning. "Your going to give away your Democracy if you don't take responsibility for the decisons being made in your name."
Independent Lens: "Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press"
Journalists and others in Afghanistan, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Sierra Leone and the U.S. work to make and keep societies free.
Posted by Judith at January 7, 2007 10:43 PMPart of the energy crisis in CA was caused when CA allowed the energy companies to sell their generating stations. This allowed the energy companies to manipulate the supply. LA kept their generating stations and even had energy to sell during the crisis. I'm not sure you can compare energy consumption per capita between CA and TX because of the differences in industry and climate. I'm all for less energy consumption.
Posted by JohnT at January 8, 2007 07:10 AMThe "government" (sic) of Texas has been run by a poorly concealed organized crime organization for many years, beginning with the first W gubernatorial term. Bribery, corruption, embezzlement...you name it we have it in spades, and the majority of the people in our state have been brainwashed to consider this just "business as usual".