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Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted
necro81 writes "Barely a month ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a freeze on applications for solar power plants on federally managed land, pending a two-year comprehensive environmental review. After much hue and cry from the public, industry, and other parts of government, BLM has today announced that it will lift the freeze, but continue to study the possible environmental effects. To date, no solar project has yet been approved on BLM land."
The smashing success of ethanol certainly argues in favor of expanding government control of everything.
Ol' Ross even lays out the good news with charts:
http://www.perotcharts.com/
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Hippies with money don't care about the poor trying to get by with high heating oil/energy costs.
You know, we've had 7.5 years with a president who is all about oil and couldn't care less about the environment, and tell me, what exactly has happened to oil prices in those 7.5 years? Oh yeah, they've shot through the roof. And when the Hippie with Money (tm) was president in the 90's, what happened to oil prices then? Oh yeah, they were extraordinarily low. When I got my first car about 12 years ago, I was paying less than $1 for a gallon of gas. Now I'm paying $4.20/ga. The Republicans can act like they're good for the economy, but they're full of crap.
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There are many lame things about PETA. But what exactly about them shows a "lack of compassion"? Because they'd ban animal testing? That's not a choice I'd agree with, but it has legitimate moral arguments.
Demonizing people you disagree with is so 90s!
PETA
This is why they invented -1 Off Topic. Somehow you managed to twist a land resource management issue into a PETA issue. My guess is that the PETA people and the solar people overlap quite a bit, probably because both issues involve populations who attempt to act as responsible custodians of the planet. I'm sure you somehow have a beef against solar energy because it is "hippie", or because Rush says its bad, or you associate it with gay marriage or as an unamerican affront to US's holy wars in the middle east. Whatever the case may be, I hope you hear my laugh the next time you complain that it cost $120 to fill your suburban. Guess what, I saw the oil crunch coming many years ago and my lifestyle reflects that foresight. Gas could go to $120/gal before it starts to even register in my radar. Think about that next time you mix issues and complain about hippies: I'll be able to afford steak when the price of gas goes to $20/gal and you are going to have to sell your truck and move out of the suburbs. Ha!
Just callin' it like I see it.
Just about all the vegans I know are weak, sickly, obese or severely underweight and generally unhealthy. This plus the fact that all of us have canines leads me to believe that we're built to have some animal protein in our diets. Being a vegan may not be as bad for you as a diet consisting entirely of meat, but it isn't optimal.
I'm not that my diet is optimal. My caffeine consumption alone would kill a lesser man.
I like my beverages with warning labels!
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There are many lame things about PETA. But what exactly about them shows a "lack of compassion"?
*DING*
http://blog.helpinganimals.com/2008/02/to_serve_man.php
Next!
"It may just be that there is something fundamentally unworkable about government itself" -H. Beam Piper
I believe the interview where PETA's president equated the life of a child as no better than the life of any animal was when the idea of lacking 'compassion' sunk in. Quotes like:
"The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being." - Ingrid Newkirk
"After a speech on animal rights in 1989, an audience member asked Regan, "If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan responded, "(If) it were a retarded baby, and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
(citations upon request, but I'm sure there's even more - they have a pretty harsh history of saying similar things in an endless grab for camera-time.)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
I love how saying something that's true and in direct response to an earlier comment will get you moderated down as "Offtopic" by a moderator who doesn't agree with you.
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The hippies are the only reason your river doesn't look like the Yangtze. They're also the ones that were warning people of urban sprawl, inefficient cars and trucks, and pushing for mass transit.
They care about preserving resources, also known as conserving. I know the new conservative movement is totally ignorant of what that means, but it would be prudent to start learning.
Perhaps if we weren't spending 3 billion a week in Iraq, and driving large vehicles huge distances to grossly inefficient oversized houses, we'd be able to afford a heating oil subsidy until alternatives are available.