If anyone needs more proof that Markell is going to be a great Governor…
…read his renewable energy plan.
It is too bad that this kind of got swept off the air yesterday because of that skanky ho, Ann Coulter.
Al should have Jack on for a full 1/2 hour to talk about this stuff.
DoctorNick, you mysterious one…
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Thanks!
I have to say it is great to see a gubernatorial candidate with as aggressive an energy plan as I proposed in ’06 while running against Harris McDowell. It is clear that Jack ‘gets it’ and should be the Democratic nominee.
It would be great to see my party’s candidates likewise embrace an aggressive platform on clean, renewable energy. If the 2008 election brings a “bidding war” over ideas to bring these technologies to Delaware, on all fronts, the citizens will be the ultimate winners.
Let’s hope that whoever gets elected follows through!
Its the follow through that counts (obviously). When I listen to Markell, I hear objective goals and a plan for reaching those goals. I know you can’t predict the future as to how much follow through will occur with candidate promises, but Markell, because of detail and lack of vague crap, appears to have more on the ball than any other guber candidate.
Not bad, I would like to see a more comprehensive plan including nuke power and bio fuels. I think it is a pretty good start. I also think Protack has already has a solid plan and Levin is starting out right. Maybe we will move forward in this state instead of backward when it comes to alternative energy.
David – you may want to take a serious look at just how many ways biofuels are fraught with bad consequences that far exceed their utility or benefit, even viewed with the most short-sightedness possible.
They are not needed and should be left behind in the dust along with all other forms of commoditized energy derived from fuels which advanced technologies will eventually consign back to discrete product feedstocks, no longer to be indiscriminately mass-consumed.
Large scale deployment of biofuels at this time would be, I believe, the same as had, a century ago, automobiles been integrally designed to accommodate being pulled by horses.
As far as nuclear : fuggedaboutit. Foolish. Exceedingly dangerous. Not worth the risks (terror targets, natural disaster timebombs). When radioactive waste is still an issue 1000 or 100000 years from now, it will probably be looked back upon as criminal.
Yucca mountain is quickly proving the most expensive waste of public money on a single project (est. $60,000,000,000) in the history of man, while still leaving us back at square zero (or worse). The facility has now been found to be on geologic fault lines…predictable governmental brilliance.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/yucca_mountain_drilling/2007/09/24/35276.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20071004-0955-nuclearwaste-costs.html
In short : we can do much much better. Look for coming breakthroughs in on-demand hydrogen and low-cost, high-efficiency photovoltaics…
Biofuel red flags :
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/BUSINESS/710090321/1003
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071014/BUSINESS/710140356/1003/BUSINESS
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1490977120070614
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8S0K43O1.htm
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9861379
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070501faessay86305/c-ford-runge-benjamin-senauer/how-biofuels-could-starve-the-poor.html
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120995.html
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33875.html
http://www.reason.com/blog/printer/120714.html
From ‘Gasbags for Ethanol :
“There is no ethanol ‘market,'” Jay Hancock writes in today’s Baltimore Sun. “The ethanol business is driven by government planners, not freely acting buyers and sellers.” Those subsidies, he adds, aren’t likely to end anytime soon…
Yes, we do have a plan which supports using nuclear power, massive incentives for renewable energy, increasing the Green Energy Fund and making our energy supplies more plentiful, diverse and affordable.
Go to the media gallery on protackforgovernor.com for a quick video on the subject.