Hooray! Over 350,000 signatures were delivered to the Senate and something worked. The bill died in the Senate today and Harry Reid said they'd try again next year. That means that we have a year to let our Senators and members of Congress know what we would really like to see in an energy bill.
NUCLEAR
SOLAR
CLEAN COAL
Those three things would make a huge difference. I also wish someone would publicize the industries and/or companies that are the worst offenders when it comes to carbon emissions. Then we could boycott those industries/companies. Find a way to give an incentive to those companies who "go green."
Also, I'm going to try to buy products that are sold in glass containers, not plastic. It's another small step toward freeing ourselves from being petroleum gluttons.
Let me know what you're doing to make Congress accountable again!
Be safe.
Friday, June 06, 2008
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Tried to post this yesterday, before the bill's death.
I looked into it and while its heartening that congress was acting, the bill was full of half measures that would not meet the needed goals.
Dot, referenced some comments from Ron about the CO2 emissions. I'm not sure how it would work, but we should be able to separate the C from the O. Release the O into the atmosphere were it is needed and use the C for industrial purposes (graphite for: pencils, heating elemeents, carbon in steels and maybe making man made diamonds (which currently uses graphite).
An article I read in Chemical and Engineering News said much the same thing. The proposed scrubbing and storage process would be both costly and ineffective.
The funds for developing the right methods could come from the vast amount of money being wasted on a war in Iraq that should not have been started and is now boiling down to a civil war.
Lets see, how'd we do in the last civil war we got involved in in Vietnam?
The engineering article went on to say the current act would cause Corps. to move operations offshore (China and Mexico) where environmental controls don't exist. Not to mention the loss of jobs in our current economy.
Any new legislation MUST include provisions to make American Corps. responsible for their pollution globaly.
ABQWill
PS: Please make me aware of future petitions so I can sign them too!
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