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Portland Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2050 (cnbc.com)
City of Portland and Multnomah County officials have announced this week that they are committed to 100 percent clean energy by the year 2050. "Getting our community to 100 percent renewable energy is a big goal," Ted Wheeler, City of Portland Mayor, said in a statement. "And while it is absolutely ambitious, it is a goal that we share with Nike, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Google, GM, Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and Walmart. We have a responsibility to lead this effort in Oregon." CNBC reports: Multnomah County is the most populous county in Oregon. Its Chair, Deborah Kafoury, welcomed the news. "This is a pledge to our children's future,'' she said. "100 percent renewables means a future with cleaner air, a stable climate and more jobs and economic opportunity.'' Portland is among a number of U.S. cities looking to embrace renewables. Wheeler noted that tackling climate change would need to be a collaborative effort. "We don't succeed addressing climate change by government action alone,'' he said. "We need our whole community: government, businesses, organizations and households to work together to make a just transition to a 100 percent renewable future.''
The city is already next to one of the largest supplies of hydroelectric service on the country.
If they buy everyone in Washington state LED bulbs, there will be more than enough surplus to buy.
For a politician to commit to anything more than ten years in the future is meaningless. They likely won't be around to be held accountable.
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Morons.
Move north across the river. Washington State doesn't have income tax. Go to Costco and by cars in Oregon. Duh.
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Cool... good for them.
As a marketing point, having a city with clean air, would be seen as really valuable in the future, especially as many cities will not bother, preferring dirty kick backs to clean air. So the cost efficiency of clean air, also can take into account, liveability and promoting health, very serious health promotion ie Portland healthy city versus Los Angeles smog cancer city. Will it attract employers who as their first priority is cheating on local and state taxes, no. Well, that is the end of that then.
The only thing clean, healthy and safe can sell is retirement for those poisoned in shitty tax haven cities. It is a sick world we live in. Nations can get away with clean, safe and healthy because why would you leave a clean, safe and healthy nation to go to some crime ridden polluted quagmire unless you are really greedy and those people make for bad employees. Local regions unfortunately can not.
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33 years just for Portland? The whole country of Germany is on track to use 80-100% renewables by 2040 or 2050 depending on who you read.
And in the mean time Twitler and company is on track to burn this country and planet to the ground in four years.
Never the less, I'd think a city the size of Portland could set itself a much more aggressive goal, and maybe even hit it.
Portland will have 100% renewable energy, but the roads will still be crap, and all of the schools falling apart with no extra curricular activities. And 10K homeless people will be able to get free light.
Portland. The city that works it.
Why the hell wait 33 years? Why not do this faster and sooner?
Seriously. This kinda shit in this day and age shouldn't take 33 years.
I can see it being possible, but you better believe companies like Big Oil will do everything they can to prevent it. They have deep pockets.
A politician smarter than the ass holes they govern.
The dream of 100% renewables assessed by Heard et al.
i call your bullshit, mr. ac. you're shoveling more shit than a wisconsin dairy farmer. you are completely forgetting that those taxes are offset by your state sales tax.. your *non existent* sales tax.
texas is similar but reversed, high taxes on everything, which is countered by no state income tax.
and as far as property taxes go. if you have a home, you're the one benefiting from the escalating property values from the booming tech industry -- so sell, cash out, and move..... across the river is nice. so go north, and quit polluting the city of portland with all that b.s... provided that washington will take your sorry ass.
This is your early warning indicator to get out of taxable range of Portland.
Your moving out will also help them meet their goal!
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Sorry to hear about your financial difficulties. Maybe work harder? Getting a GED might help too.
...to NYC, that's where they belong.
The decision has already been made. The dams provide flood control for the many cities and towns below.
Big problem: I very much doubt that anyone in the Portland City government or the Multnomah County government has technical knowledge. They are making a claim that is not backed by facts, I'm guessing.
Not much of a challenge when over 70 percent of electricity generated in Oregon is currently from renewables. The only coal plant is shutting down in 2020 and by 2050 most of the existing plants will have long been replaced.
A classic case of a bunch of politicians promising something on a timeline to expire long after they're all retired. Taking advantage of douchebag hipsters along the way - so nothing really lost there.
Seriously, Portland could do it in several years with geothermal. They are loaded with volcanos all-around the area. Easy to tap. And it is criminal that they have not.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Holy shit. Trump needs to act now and fucking put a stop to this BS!
And others won't be near lots of hydro, but will have a massive resource of wind. Or geothermal. Or solar. Or whatever. But if they don't have resources for all of them you'll pick the one they don't have and proclaim it ruins their ability to be 100% renewables, right?
Spoken like the bridge and tunnel crowd.
Not everybody has two hours to kill each day watching cars not moving on the freeway.
Is alive in Portland.
I already pay fucking 11%
OMG who cares. In my jurisdiction, I pay 31.66% between Provincial and Federal taxes. And do you know what, I don't give a damn how high the percentage is, because I never see that extra money since it's taken directly off of my pay. All I care about is what I take home.
Property taxes come directly off of my mortgage payments, so are also not really seen.
Stop whining about taxes.
See if there was a market to trade the value of "green energy" to people who do not have it available as credits, it would all work out. We could call them "Gore Chips" or something like that.
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Gotta call BS on this. Wind power kills huge numbers of birds so need waivers due to how many they kill and the types - eagles, and other large birds, and unless they go nuclear (yeah right, like that will happen) everyone better have their own generators as they will need them... Of course, from my perspective - I love it when liberals talk themselves into living like animals... Of course those in power till exempt themselves - like the leaders of all communist and socialist countries do....
FOX, Trump, the Republican party, the KKK. All of which have differences, but a lot more overlap than any of them should be comfortable with.
The KKK is an extension of the Democrat party, dumbass. You might want to do some checking on their history together.
But don't forget about the other ways to burn fossil fuel like: cars, trucks, home heating, etc: Try and replace low mileage cars with EV, and pluggable hybrids. Replace inefficient home heating and air conditioning units with more efficient units. Go with electrically powered heat pump unit were possible. You might not get there but every little bit helps.
You are a financial imbecile if you could care less where the money you earned is going. I bet you'd care if the tax rate went to 95%.
I live across the bridge in Vancouver and work in Portlan. My typical commute is right around an hour - on transit. Driving typically cuts that to 40 minutes. My girlfriend drives to work, her drive time is usually right around 30 minutes.
But hey, spread your FUD all you like.
I live in Southeast Portland and work at the airport. In no traffic, my drive is 20 minutes. During rush hour, the drive is 40-45 minutes, taking surface streets through Gresham, because taking 205 would be closer to an hour.
As we all know, here in 2017, renewables are far far cheaper than deadender 18th century fossil fuels.
This is a wise choice by the city, and should also help them in earthquake and other disaster preparedness, in that homes and office buildings and factories with solar wind and tidal can continue to operate even when the municipal grid is heavily impacted. This will allow them to turn back on critical infrastructure such as pumping systems, emergency lighting, and provide critical hospital services.
Great job, Portland!
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Yep, your single anecdote translates to equal traffic statistics for everyone in the area.
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Meanwhile no region of government can manage to keep a single focus for longer than a few months. Won't happen.
Oooh, an entire 11% tax. What a poor wretched existence you have. Let's see...you have clean water, healthy food, a roof over your head, you're not enslaved, human trafficked or living with drought or famine. There's no warlords pillaging your village or bombs falling on your head. You know how to read, you have an education, you have electricity and a computer and probably a car. You no doubt have comfortable clothes and shoes and a television and entertainment devices. In short, you've already won the life lottery, having a better existence than BILLIONS of people on the planet. Quit yer whining you self entitled f'n juvenile prick.
It's all hydro. Lots of big rivers in Oregon. Not a scalable solution though, the growth potential for hydro in the U.S. is about 0.