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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 2, 2015, 4:33 pm
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Earthquake Drills are now part of Oklahoma school routine. Guess
why?
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 5, 2015, 4:32 pm
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[center]Texas Passes Ban on Fracking Bans (Yes, You Read that
Right)[/center]
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 7, 2015, 6:00 pm
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Understanding Fossil Fueler Speak
Whenever a fossil fueler claims they are "saving the planet"
(see MKing and friends
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/>what they mean is that they are SAVING THEIR ASSES in order to
keep the profit over planet, suicidal, dirty energy gravy train
going.
Whenever a fossil fueler claims they want to "cut wasteful
energy subsidies", what they mean is that they want to CUT the
RENEWABLE ENERGY tiny subsidies and leave the giant dirty energy
visible AND INVISBLE "subsidies" (THEFT from we-the-people on
behalf of fossil fuel welfare queens for the last 100 years or
so
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ON BEHALF OF the
Fossil Fuel Welfare Queens.
Here is a snippet of a bill now before Congress designed to
"save the planet" (see above) and "Cut wasteful energy
subsidies" (see above).
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114th CONGRESS
1st Session
[center][size=18pt]H. R. 1901 [/center]
[center][size=10pt]To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
phaseout and repeal the credit for electricity produced from
certain renewable resources, to reduce the corporate income tax,
and for other purposes. [/size]
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[center]IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [/center]
[center]April 21, 2015 [/center]
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Mr. Marchant (for himself, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas,
Mr. Perry, Mr. Flores, Mr. Shuster, and Mr. Scalise) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means[/center]
[center]A BILL [/center]
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to phaseout and
repeal the credit for electricity produced from certain
renewable resources, to reduce the corporate income tax, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Short title.
This Act may be cited as the “PTC Elimination Act”.
SEC. 2. Phaseout and repeal of credit for electricity produced
from certain renewable resources.
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(a) Reduction of credit and phaseout amounts.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 45(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 is amended by striking paragraph (2).
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 45(e)(2) of such Code is
amended—
(A) by striking “the inflation adjustment factor and” in
subparagraph (A), and
(B) by striking subparagraph (B) and redesignating subparagraph
(C) as subparagraph (B).
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this subsection shall
apply to electricity, and refined coal ;), produced and sold
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Agelbert NOTE: The EFFECTIVE DATE ENSURES that all future
investment SCHEDULED RIGHT NOW (these things have one two and up
to three year lead times) are CANCELLED in order to STRANGLE
more renewable energy investment for AT LEAST the next three
years while maintaining the TOTALLY UNNECESSARY fossil fuel
subsidy THEFT. THAT is how they did it in Reagan's day. THAT is
how they keep trying to DESTROY RENEWABLE ENERGY TODAY.
MKing supports this bill. Most people who lack empathy for their
fellow earthlings do as well. This is why:
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Did you know JFK wanted to repeal the Oil Depletion allowance?
The "depletion" (LOL!) allowance is still there...
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 8, 2015, 3:09 pm
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Are We Sunk? The Electric Utility’s Titanic Problem ;D
John Farrell
May 06, 2015 | 14 Comments
In my recent report on the utility business model of the future,
I laid out 5 pillars of a democratic energy system. It’s hard
not to notice the contrast between this vision of the future and
the 15-year business plan laid out by Xcel Energy in Minnesota,
the incumbent monopoly serving about half the state’s electric
customers. Like those of its peers, it’s a plan that attempts to
straddle the inevitable transition toward clean energy while
keeping its existing centralized power system running for as
long as possible.
This inconsistency gave me the sudden image of the “Titanic,”
engines thundering, smokestacks spewing, rushing toward the
iceberg of financial insolvency and climate catastrophe. We’re
all aboard this ship, short of life rafts and about to test
whether it’s truly unsinkable.
The impending titanic impact (pardon the pun) mirrors the
original naval disaster in other disturbing ways. For one, the
electricity system fascination with large scale systems (like
huge nuclear power plants) without making enough alternative
“life boats” (like distributed solar). For another, the notion
that a large ship or a large utility are both too big to fail.
But today’s electricity system differs from this ill-fated ship
in one key respect: we still have the power to avoid the
collision.
Too Many Years of Incremental Change
Even though most electric customers see themselves as helpless
steerage passengers, the truth is that we’re in a time of
tremendous opportunity to turn the ship or, failing that, set
sail on some new life boats.
We’re at this moment for two reasons. First, the original rules
of the electric system, made by legislatures and enforced by
Public Utilities Commissions, set a course toward affordable and
reliable electric service, whatever the (environmental and
equity) cost. Over time it became clear that affordable and
reliable were insufficient principles for organizing an
electricity system with better technologies for energy
efficiency and distributed renewable energy. But when we tried
to change the system, it became clear that utilities that can
exercise market power can also exercise political power over the
rules of the system to defend their fiefdom.
So instead of seizing the opportunities presented by new
technology with a wholesale course correction, we’ve nudged the
direction of the “unsinkable” monopoly vessel. Renewable
portfolio standards have reduced emissions, but not enough to
avert the climate crisis. Energy efficiency standards have
reduced, but not eliminated, growth in electricity use. Nor, in
leaving the incumbent utility largely in charge, has either
policy sufficiently diversified control over the electric
system.
For example, the Rocky Mountain Institute illustrates that
building energy use could be halved by 2050, and yet Xcel
Energy’s 15-year plan includes a demand forecast that increases
energy consumption.
Xcel’s 40 percent renewable forecast by 2030 seems ambitious,
except that the 2,400 megawatts of solar they propose by that
year represents less solar than could be installed on
residential and commercial rooftops, competitive with their
electricity prices, by 2022.
And, like many others, Minnesota’s titanic utility has been
reluctant to change course. Just last week the utility learned
that they’ll be held responsible for massive cost overruns on a
retrofit to their Monticello nuclear power plant (despite
numerous advance warnings). This power plant — a legacy of a
utility-centric, command-and-control electricity system — is
largely incompatible with the shift toward a cleaner, more
distributed electricity system.
And so we surge forward toward the iceberg of climate
catastrophe and electric system insolvency, because too few of
the passengers realize they actually have a choice.
Avoiding the Impact
Having been put behind the wheel of the utility system decades
ago, the incumbent utility has been perfectly happy to maintain
a system that is (unfairly) economically and politically
rewarding. But the rise of distributed generation like solar and
the plateauing of energy sales have made even utilities realize
that this course is unsustainable. The problem is, they don’t
even understand how to change. Over half of utilities
participating in a recent industry survey said that they see an
opportunity in distributed energy resources, but that they don’t
know how to build a business around it.
The 21st century electric utility has to be substantially
different from its predecessor. In a recent report, ILSR
outlined 5 pillars of an energy democracy system that overlap
and go beyond the “Utility 2.0″ conversation. These
pillars illustrate the primary principles that should govern our
electricity system.
Five Pillars of Energy Democracy
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The incumbent utility
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won’t
implement this new course , especially since the rules they
operate under don’t encourage it. Instead, the rules have to
change, which means that legislation and regulation has to
change to enable this new route toward a more democratic energy
system. Regulators in New York are Reforming the Energy Vision,
envisioning a complete overhaul to make the ship nimble enough
to avoid the economic and climate pitfalls ahead. They’re joined
by regulators and legislators in other states — including
Minnesota, Vermont, Maine, California, and Hawaii — trying to
re-engineer the driving force in the utility system.
This is a big, substantive change. It threatens utilities used
to monopoly control and monopoly profits. And because there’s
plenty of evidence that the utility monopoly no longer makes
sense, many utilities are now fighting back.
If the Ship Can’t Turn…
what happens if policy change can’t save us from the iceberg?
Electric customers have some compelling alternatives.
For one, the cost of distributed renewable energy has fallen so
sharply that many people are reducing their reliance on the
electric utility. The Rocky Mountain Institute suggests that as
energy storage costs start to fall with mass adoption, there’s a
real possibility for (wealthier) individuals and businesses to
defect from the grid, i.e. commandeer the lifeboats.
More promising is the rise of collective action. In Boulder, CO,
the city has opted to seize the ship, by orchestrating a
city-driven takeover of the local energy system in order to
deliver more clean, local power. In Minneapolis, MN, grassroots
action has driven the electric and gas utilities into a clean
energy partnership with the city under the intention of meeting
the city’s climate and equity goals. Citizens in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, are also asking how a city-owned utility could
dramatically shift investment toward a more efficient and
cleaner electricity system.
We built the electric system into a fleet of centralized,
monopoly Titanics
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time when all we wanted was affordable and reliable power. But
technology has radically changed the horizon. There are major
obstacles ahead and electric utilities aren’t likely to act
quickly enough to avoid them.
We shouldn’t expect them to, because they’ve never really been
in charge.
To the extent that there is a “market” in electricity, it’s
entirely the creation of public policy. We christened these
Titanics and gave them the power to bring light and energy to
our economy. And it’s time to wake up and walk up from steerage
and get behind the wheel.
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Agelbert NOTE: A revealing graph from the "Democratic"
Governor's Association will guide you in understanding who has
REALLY BEEN IN CHARGE of "public" policy in the USA for the last
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A. G. Gelbert
May 8, 2015
John Farrell is RIGHT! The bottom line is that the "business
model" world view of EVERYBODY needs to incorporate the REAL
WORLD called environmental cause and effect.
IOW. the original rules of the electric system, made by
legislatures and enforced by Public Utilities Commissions, that
set a course toward "affordable' and "reliable" electric
service, whatever the environmental and equity cost, were NOT
"practical" or "profitable", as Mr. Wootton might claim. Those
rules were a 20th century profit over planet pipe dream,
compliments of the fossil fuel and nuclear power dirty energy
industries, PERIOD.
It's time to leave the pseudo practical "do the math" LA LA LAND
of exploitation without reflection that celebrates the
egocentric and the suicidal stupidity that environmental costs
can be offloaded onto the poor in general and the biosphere in
particular.
John talks about democracy and distributed energy. I'm all for
that. But this issue goes way beyond that. This is about a flaw
in human thinking that must be corrected. Doing something
because we CAN is not an excuse for doing it. Of course it's
immoral to exploit without reflection. But it's also illogical,
stupid and suicidal too!
So for you folks that like to be "practical" and oh so careful
about rocking the status quo boat, I recommend you reassess your
view of the Industrial (pollution) Revolution and the "miracle"
of 20th century energy products.
We DID NOT have to "remain in the caves" to avoid using dirty
energy, no matter what you victims of dirty energy brainwashing
may believe.
But, of course, that is polluted water under the "bridge", so to
speak.
We do not need a "NEW" business model for energy because we
NEVER HAD ONE. What we need, as John Farrell says in so many
words, is to plug the environmental and equity costs of energy
production and use into our planning and thinking in order to
avoid extinction.
Accuse me of hyperbole if you like. You are wrong.
[quote]
[font=times new roman]Facts do not cease to exist because they
are ignored." [/font]-- Aldous Huxley [/quote]
[quote]"We can’t have a healthy business on a sick planet.”
Ashley Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for
Seventh Generation, Burlington, Vermont[/quote]
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 18, 2015, 5:17 pm
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Painting with a Broad Brush
[quote]The core responsibility assigned to governments in
democracies is the public welfare, protecting the human
birthright to basic needs: clean air, water, land, and a place
to live, under equitable rules of access to all common property
resources.
It is astonishing to discover that major political efforts in
democracies can be turned to undermining the core purpose of
government, destroying the factual basis for fair and effective
protection of essential common property resources of all to feed
the financial interests of a few. These efforts, limiting
scientific research on environment, denying the validity of
settled facts and natural laws, are a shameful dance, far below
acceptable or reputable political behavior.
It can be treated not as a reasoned alternative, but scorned for
what it is – simple thievery. —George M. Woodwell, WHRC
founder[/quote]
[b]Can We Afford Not to Address Climate Change?[/b]
Dr. Philip B. Duffy
President & Executive Director
Woods Hole Research Center
SNIPPET:
Opponents of environmental protection argue that we ‘can’t
afford’ to safeguard our health and that of the planet we live
and depend on. The latest example involves the EPA’s proposed
regulation of existing coal-fired power plants, which a member
of Congress (from a coal producing state) recently claimed would
result in “electricity rate increases, reduced electrical
reliability and other harmful effects.”
It seems so logical that regulation would increase costs that
few people question the idea. But history shows that it’s often
not true. For one thing, it’s wrong to focus narrowly on the
purchase price of automobiles, electricity, or whatever is being
regulated.
Pollution has real costs in terms of damage to the environment
and to human health. (Because of this, polluting is a way of
shifting costs onto others). For example, the Clean Air
coalition estimated that fine particle pollution from existing
coal plants caused nearly 13,200 deaths in 2010, plus 9,700
hospitalizations and more than 20,000 heart attacks, with a
total monetized value for these adverse health impacts exceeding
$100 billion per year
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have been reduced by successful regulation of coal plants.)
But even if we focus exclusively on purchase prices,
[b]regulation can have surprisingly positive impacts.
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[/b]Refrigerators
provide an interesting example.
Excellent Article in the Woods Hole Research Center Newsletter
revealing the thievery, duplicity and mendacity of the dirty
energy producers and their political lackeys at link below:
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 18, 2015, 6:27 pm
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Reality-based conspiracies :(
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[move][i]Welcome to DYSTOPIA[/i][/move]
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By: AGelbert Date: May 21, 2015, 4:57 pm
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Santa Barbara Oil Spill: Another Reminder of the Price of Fossil
Fuels :P
It's happened again. On Tuesday as much as 105,000 gallons of
oil spilled near Santa Barbara, Calif., sending an estimated
21,000 gallons into the Pacific Ocean, creating an oil slick
about 9 miles long in the Pacific Ocean and fouling major
stretches of the beach. The crude leaked from a broken pipe and
flowed into the Pacific via a culvert.
The spill happened in the same area as an oil spill in 1969
that was the country's largest until the Exxon Valdez spill in
Alaska in 1989. Wildlife rescue teams and cleanup crews have
spent the past two days responding to the spill.
"Time and again we've seen oil foul our coasts, whether it's
Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico or Santa Barbara," said the Center's
Miyoko Sakash ita. "Oil spills are part of the ugly cost of
fossil fuel development, made even worse by aging domestic
infrastructure. >:( It doesn't have to be this way and it
shouldn't. We need to start aggressively moving away from fuel
sources that are devastating for wildlife, people and our
climate. If we don't, we risk continuing to see spills like we
just saw in Santa Barbara."
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Agelbert NOTE: OF course, the profit over planet Modus Operandi
ENSURES that we-the-people PAY for pollution costs IN ADDITION
to "subsidizing" (see THEFT) dirty energy.
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[move][I][font=impact]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate
Trashing CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have ALWAYS BEEN
liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID
[/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let
them get away with it! Pass it on!
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By: AGelbert Date: June 1, 2015, 5:58 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Some may question why I posted this story here.
Well, this is an example of a PITTANCE going to renewable energy
(see PRETEND support ;)) while the BIG MONEY from the taxpayers
is going to more fossil fuel CRAP.
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/> Particularly galling is how the fossil fuel natural gas crook
s
have infiltrated a corporation that has been championing
renewable energy. >:(
06/01/2015 01:47 PM
California Families Get Free Solar Thanks to Cap-And-Trade
SustainableBusiness.com News
1600 lower income families will be outfitted with solar by the
end of next year thanks to California's cap-and-trade program.
10% of the money raised in the program is funneled into the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for projects that reduce
greenhouse gases in the state or that improve the environment in
low income neighborhoods.
Non-profit GRID Alternatives, which is coordinating the solar
installations, was awarded $14.7 million for the next two years.
Local manufacturers donate the equipment, job-training programs
provide the installers and homeowners either help with the
installation or feed the crew.
California's cap-and-trade program, called the Western Climate
Initiative now that Quebec and Ontario have joined - has raised
$1.6 billion so far.
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Since 2007, SunPower has donated about $2 million in equipment
and cash from its foundation to support GRID Alternatives' work.
A new investment is for the group's new high school education
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Besides donating solar panels, SunEdison is investing in GRID's
programs that foster greater diversity in the solar industry.
The company donated $1.2 million to launch the Women in Solar
Initiative, and is following up with $5 million to expand that
and launch the RISE initiative, which focuses on racial and
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Read our article, How California Will Spend the $5 Billion a
Year From Cap-and-Trade.
Natural Gas versus Renewables Still An Issue
Last week, California approved a spanking new natural gas power
plant
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more renewable energy instead.
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The new plant is necessary
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since
the San Onofre nuclear plant closed in 2013. San Diego Gas &
Electric, which is buying all the power, says natural gas is
still needed to fill in gaps left by solar and wind energy.
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utility that's most involved in and committed to renewable
energy in the US
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[move]Message to San Diego Gas & Electric from We-the-People
that KNOW how to add and subtract using BIOSPHERE MATH.[/move]
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3 Arrested in Denton As Oklahoma Joins Texas in Banning Fracking
Bans
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Josh Fox Gets Kicked Off of Fox News While Exposing Misleading
Coverage of EPA Fracking Report >:(
Lee Ziesche, Solutions Grassroots | June 8, 2015 4:56 pm
Varney said he wouldn’t frack his own land in upstate New York
because it’s in a “watershed” but promoted, on air, last week
(while not letting Sandra Steingraber finish a sentence) that we
should frack the rest of New York.
When Fox called him out on the hypocrisy and questioned Varney’s
claim that he lit his tap water on fire, Varney became irate and
told Josh, “The interview is over. You are outta here young
man.”
“If you said to me earlier that you would not want fracking in
your own neighborhood, it’s irresponsible for you to say on air
that the rest of America should frack,” Fox can be heard saying
to Varney as he’s being faded out.
Fox was on the program to address untrue headlines most of the
mainstream media ran with claiming fracking was safe, following
the release of a long-awaited U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) report on the practice.
In the report, the U.S. EPA publicly confirmed for the first
time that fracking contaminates groundwater. However, the EPA’s
press release led with the misleading headline saying that EPA
has found no “widespread” evidence of water contamination.
As Fox explains on the show this is not the first time we’ve
seen the EPA release a report where the science says one thing
and then their PR department slaps on a press release that says
something else.
“EPA went into Dimock and said to people ‘do not drink your
water,’ in private letters and then in the press they came out
and said well actually this water is safe,” Josh said on the
show.
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