The Kansas Energy Council has released 15 preliminary policy recommendations for the 2009 legislative session, including encouraging “policies that promote declines in greenhouse-gas emissions, not policies that merely shift emissions within or between regions,” and reducing the maximum speed limit from 70 to 65 mph on Kansas highways. The council will hold the second of two public comment hearings from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 30 at Wichita State University’s Marcus Welcome Center, 21st Street and Mike Oatman Drive.
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In the name of green house gases and lower emissions, say what! This will only lead to more taxes and regulations in trying to save the world from ourselves. If the energy council is successful in lower the speed limit (I don’t think it will happen) then they will look for the next thing they can shove down our throats. If I was them I would try to sneak in something small in the so called name of saving energy before they strike out on lowing speed limits. I bet they will. This is Kathy’s council and it is loaded with greenies. Global warming and cooling is out of our control, I don’t care how much you spend. Pollution is another story and that we can help with.
Green legislation never works, it has a proven track record of failure.
- Speed limits didn’t work
- Save the forests didn’t work (more forest fires)
- Forced pollution controls caused higher mpg
- Environmental controls causes thousands of stupid lawsuits
- greenhouse gases legislation and carbon credits is the biggest Ponzi scheme perpetrated on mankind
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Regular
Posted September 21, 2008 at 8:50 am | Permalink
Green legislation never works, it has a proven track record of failure.
- Speed limits didn’t work
- Save the forests didn’t work (more forest fires)
- Forced pollution controls caused higher mpg
- Environmental controls causes thousands of stupid lawsuits
- greenhouse gases legislation and carbon credits is the biggest Ponzi scheme perpetrated on mankind
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Speed limits reduced highway deaths. Breaking the speed limit killed people.
Forest fires would still be there regardless of environmental concerns. But a balance between the environment and humans does need to be addressed in a rational way.
Ask the people living in Los Angeles, and any other smoggy city, whether pollution controls worked.
Without environmental controls, we would still have rivers on fire, businesses dumping oil and other waste on the land and in the waterways of this country, with NO regard for the environment. We’ve seen what no environmental regulations can do.
I agree about carbon credits: Ponzi plus. Kinda like ISO.
Green legislation has worked in many cases. It is, and will be, abused the same way any legislation is abused. Just look at the financial mess.
How about a list of folks on this council?
heheheh. Janis Lee for one. The biggest advocate big corn and big irrigation ever had. Gee, ya think she wants… wait for it… ETHANOL subsidies?
I think it’s a council made up of ethanol and wind folks who stand to benefit from government handouts to each.
SSDD
Oh, and they ALL stand to benefit from a sebelius win of higher office.
Go figger.
“We’ve seen what no environmental regulations can do.”
yep.
And we’re seeing the fruits of deregulation in the financial markets. And mcsame’s answer to the multiple crisis facing our country?
More deregulation. More privatization. I mean, since it’s worked so well up to this point.
No wonder paulie has a man crush on mcsame….
KFG
The financial mess can be tied directly to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fannie and Freddie were Democrat Party playgrounds and piggy banks.
Whenever Bush or McCain or anyone else tried to regulate or even investigate Fannie or Freddie, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd put a stop to it.
Obama was called “The Conscience of Fannie Mae” by one of Fannies disgraced leaders.
Then, on top of this, Countrywide and Lehman Brothers were also huge contributers to liberal causes and gave huge amounts of money to the Obama campaign.
Lehman Brothers was very tight with Al Gore and the entire “carbon credit” scam.
The mortgage mess can be traced DIRECTLY to the Democrat Party.
If you were smart, you would quit bringing it up!
All those for climate change laws stand up and play the price. I don’t care how much money you throw at, it will change nothing. Read the article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080921/sc_afp/euclimatechange
Here’s an idea,
Air up your tires.
Energy boost extrodinaire………
Yes, Regular is right. Do nothing.
The Republican Plan in a nutshell.
ms. ksfarmgrrl: I left early this AM so didn’t get to read the EAGLE. A few minutes ago, I browsed the WE Blog and noticed your comment about Julene Bair’s editorial letter in this morning Sunday EAGLE, so finally just read it.
I decided I would reply on this WE Blog thread initiated by departing opinion writer, Randy Scholfield. Perhaps he put some comments in the “WE Blog icebox” to be thawed out from time to time.
In any case, regarding Julene Bair, the article indicates Julene now lives in Longmont, Colorado, just a hop and skip north of Boulder, coincidentally Randy’s new hometown. Occurs to me, future Kansans will probably move westward to those Rocky mountain foothills as our Ogallala drinking water runs out in the plains states.
In her article in this morning’s EAGLE, Ms. Bair says, “I grew up on a western Kansas farm before irrigation became widespread (where and when?). My family raised winter wheat, a sensible crop for a dry region. It could tolerate cold and moisture from snow, then be harvested as the summer began.” but later she says, crops changed to higher water gulping crops.
RIGHT ON TARGET, Julene.
Then she says what I have been saying for some time … that is, T. Boone Pickens’ ultimate plan is not harvesting wind power as he has been saying. His ultimate plan is to use the right-a-way easements that he assembles for electrical power transmission — for underground pipelines to drain the huge underground lake of water, known as the Ogallala aquifer. The Ogallala underlies the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. T Boone Pickens would savagely heist the ancient irreplacable water from under these states and transport it for sale to the highest bidders in the huge metropolitan areas of Texas and probably Mexico City, the world’s largest city (over 30 million people).
No matter that by law, the underground aquifer water belongs to the people of Kansas. Our national and state politicians read this to mean the aquifer water belongs to the politicians representing the people of Kansas.
Water is the new oil of the 21st century. Wars could conceivably be fought over it, if there is any left. I agree this possibility is hard to see in wet years like we are having this year. But rain generally runs off into rivers and is immediately polluted by man-made chemicals. Its the relatively untainted deep underground water that is wanted by large metropolitan areas and Big Corporate Industry.
Julene Bair is very correct and should be honored as a Kansas water majesty and prognosticator … if only people would listen.
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DavidB
Posted September 21, 2008 at 6:33 pm | Permalink
Yes, Regular is right. Do nothing.
The Republican Plan in a nutshell.
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I never said such a thing.
What I said and implied is that this Liberal idea of new ideas has been “new” for about fifty years now and nothing has changed.
We need to utilize our natural resources, build more nuclear plants and continue to research alternative energy engines and sources.
I know you do hold those positions. I stand corrected.
But I do maintain the Republican plan is a losing do-nothing plan.
They have fought higher fleet standards for decades.
European cars now get 50 – 60% better gas mileage than we do. And they have pretty nice cars…
Just as in Iraq – as the ‘alternatives’ stand up – oil can stand down – but as of now – our domestic oil needs a surge