Bloom Energy Meetings Tonight and Tomorrow
If you can’t make PDD’s meeting with Senator Coons in New Castle tonight, then perhaps you can attend the Public Service Commission’s hearings on Bloom Energy this week. The PSC hearings this week are tonight at the Cannon Building Hearing Room, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at the Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, Mezzanine Level, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware, also at 7 p.m.
These hearings will concern Bloom Energy’s planned fuel-cell factory in Newark, which would cost Delmarva customers a surcharge of $1 a month for the next 21 years. This surcharge would fund the subsidy to Bloom Energy, which will allow it to build the fuel cell factory at the old Chrysler assembly plant and hire 900 workers. The factory would manufacture “Bloom Boxes,” which are pictured on the front page below.
These Bloom Boxes will contain hundreds of fuel cells that use a chemical reaction to generate electricity. In addition to the Bloom Energy factory at the old Chrysler plant, Delaware plans to place two clusters of Bloom Boxes on two sites in New Castle County adjacent to Delmarva electrical substaions. These clusters themselves will generate approximately 30 megawatts of power for the electrical grid, which is enough to power approximately 25,000 homes.
And if just hearing about this cool technology that will be a second cornerstone of Delaware’s green economy wasn’t enough, consider this:
The 9/12 Delaware Patriots have decided to target these meetings to try to derail the deal. Their arguments have been heard before and will be heard again, but this is a real opportunity to stand up to the crazy Eileen’s and Nutty Evan’s of the state.
I don’t think the wingnuts understand the technology. These fuel cells run on natural gas produced by their capitalist heroes in the energy industry. Natural gas that will most likely be produced in the USA, with minimal taxes or environmental regulation (at least in Pennsylvania). And the hardware itself is manufactured in America. What’s for a conservative not to like?
It’s green technology (or at least greener) so it has to be part of the plan of socialists to clean up the air so that they can do hippy things.
Next, conservatives protest promising new cancer treatments.
You mean like stem-cell therapies?
Oh yeah. Once again, parody is impossible with Republicans.
The wingnuts have friends with deep pockets.
Most recently, John Nichols (who is affiliated with the 9-12 Patriots and the CRI) coauthored an op-ed in the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/23/delawares-very-own-solyndra/) with Paul Driessen, senior policy advisor of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (http://www.cfact.org/), an industry funded anti-environmental group in Washington. CFACT has been funded by two Scaife family foundations and Exxon Mobil (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow).
This is the second national anti-environmental group the 9-12 Patriots and the CRI have teamed up with, the other being the American Traditions Institute (http://www.atinstitute.org/). The ATI recently joined with the CRI to produce a paper that asserts that renewable energy will cost Delaware jobs. The ATI has also filed suit challenging Colorado’s renewable energy standards, filed a FOIA request for UVA professor Michael Mann looking for evidence of fraud in his scientific work on climate change and filed a FOIA suit against NASA scientist James Hansen.
That’s why letting your voices be heard is so important. You’re up against the wealthiest of the wealthy, people with extreme vested interests in making sure that green energy opportunities are thwarted at every turn.
Since these bloom boxes run on natural gas, which in this area will likely be produced with significant environmental damage upstream along the Delaware River and its drainage area, does anyone know the environmental position that the Markell Administration has on Fracking?
Have they internalized the externalities of the environmental damage that may occur in our region due to natural gas production? What will be the cost of fracking to our regions ecology. Does anyone in the Markell administration understand or care about the inter-connectivity of these environmental issues?
If anyone has it, please provide information about the position of Jack Markell on fracking in the upper Delaware.
REALITY!!
( http://my.firedoglake.com/iflizwerequeen/2011/05/16/how-about-a-little-truth-about-what-the-majority-want-for-health-care/ )
( Gov. Peter Shumlin: Real Healthcare reform — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yFUbkVCsZ4 )
( Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator — http://www.cepr.net/calculators/hc/hc-calculator.html )
( Briefing: Dean Baker on Boosting the Economy by Saving Healthcare http://t.co/fmVz8nM )
START NOW!
As you all know. Had congress passed a single-payer or government-run robust Public Option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one, our economy and jobs would have taken off like a rocket. And still will. Single-payer would be best. But a government-run robust Public Option CHOICE! that can lead to a single-payer system is the least you can accept. It’s not about competing with for-profit healthcare and for-profit health insurance. It’s about replacing it with Universal Healthcare Assurance. Everyone knows this now.
The message from the midterm elections was clear. The American people want real healthcare reform. They want that individual mandate requiring them to buy private health insurance abolished. And they want a government-run robust public option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one. And they want it now.
They want Drug re-importation, and abolishment, or strong restrictions on patents for biologic and prescription drugs. And government controlled and negotiated drug and medical cost. They want back control of their healthcare system from the Medical Industrial Complex. And they want it NOW!
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NOT, AND MUST NOT, ALLOW AN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE TO STAND WITHOUT A STRONG GOVERNMENT-RUN PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE! AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.
For-profit health insurance is extremely unethical, and morally repugnant. It’s as morally repugnant as slavery was. And few if any decent Americans are going to allow them-self to be compelled to support such an unethical and immoral crime against humanity.
This is a matter of National and Global security. There can be NO MORE EXCUSES.
Further, we want that corrupt, undemocratic filibuster abolished. Whats the point of an election if one corrupt member of congress can block the will of the people, and any legislation the majority wants. And do it in secret. Give me a break people.
Also, unemployment healthcare benefits are critically needed. But they should be provided through the Medicare program at cost, less the 65% government premium subsidy provided now to private for profit health insurance.
Congress should stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on private for profit health insurance subsidies. Subsidies that cost the taxpayer 10x as much or more than Medicare does. Private for profit health insurance plans cost more. But provide dangerous and poorer quality patient care.
Republicans: GET RID OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE.
Democrats: ADD A ROBUST GOVERNMENT-RUN PUBLIC OPTION TO HEALTHCARE REFORM.
This is what the American people are shouting at you. Both parties have just enough power now to do what the American people want. GET! IT! DONE! NOW!
If congress does not abolish the individual mandate. And establish a government-run public option CHOICE! before the end of 2011. EVERY! member of congress up for reelection in 2012 will face strong progressive pro public option, and anti-individual mandate replacement candidates.
Strong progressive pro “PUBLIC OPTION” CHOICE! and anti-individual mandate volunteer candidates should begin now. And start the process of replacing any and all members of congress that obstruct, or fail to add a government-run robust PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE! before the end of 2011.
We need two or three very strong progressive volunteer candidates for every member of congress that will be up for reelection in 2012. You should be fully prepared to politically EVISCERATE EVERY INCUMBENT that fails or obstructs “THE PUBLIC OPTION”. And you should be willing to step aside and support the strongest pro “PUBLIC OPTION” candidate if the need arises.
ASSUME CONGRESS WILL FAIL and SELLOUT again. So start preparing now to CUT THEIR POLITICAL THROATS. You can always step aside if they succeed. But only if they succeed. We didn’t have much time to prepare before these past midterm elections. So the American people had to use a political shotgun approach. But by 2012 you will have a scalpel.
Congress could have passed a robust government-run public option during it’s lame duck session. They knew what the American people wanted. They already had several bills on record. And the house had already passed a public option. Departing members could have left with a truly great accomplishment. And the rest of you could have solidified your job before the 2012 elections.
President Obama, you promised the American people a strong public option available to everyone. And the American people overwhelmingly supported you for it. Maybe it just wasn’t possible before. But it is now.
Knock heads. Threaten people. Or do whatever you have to. We will support you. But get us that robust public option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one before the end of 2011. Or We The People Of The United States will make the past midterm election look like a cake walk in 2012. And it will include you.
We still have a healthcare crisis in America. With hundreds of thousands dieing needlessly every year in America. And a for profit medical industrial complex that threatens the security and health of the entire world. They have already attacked the world with H1N1 killing thousands, and injuring millions. And more attacks are planned for profit, and to feed their greed.
Spread the word people.
Progressives, prepare the American peoples scalpels. It’s time to remove some politically diseased tissues.
God Bless You my fellow human beings. I’m proud to be one of you. You did good.
See you on the battle field.
Sincerely
jacksmith – WorkingClass 🙂