Texas is Number 1 in Carbon Emissions

Where is the green option? (0.00 / 0)

I am moving to Austin in 4 weeks. My wife and I just set up our electric for Austin, and aparently the only option for Austin is the municiple utility company. Is there a green option for Austin?

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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by: Doug Mayeux @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 00:02:14 AM UTC

Austin energy has a wind option (0.00 / 0)

And one of the best solar rebate programs in the country

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by: George @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 11:17:18 AM UTC

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And will continue to be Number 1 (0.00 / 0)

"It is time for us to make our state more green and if our Governor and state agencies won't do it, then it is up to us to get our cities and counties to help."

Bill White tried that. And found it doesn't work. But he knew that. It just sounded good. He says a lot of things that just sound good. One city or one county cannot tell the adjoining one what to do in this country. Only the state or federal government can. And the policy of both, at least in Texas, was more or less set by George W Bush and his Buddies.  A long time ago. 

There is a little problem with trying to clear up the air here and there instead of everywhere.  The air itself. It tends to move around thanks to prevailing winds.

We are a deregulated state. And will remain one. Which means TXU will build whatever it wants wherever it wants in the end.

And coal for some reason is cheap for them and profitable for them. The two main motivations for everything the Republicans  support. From energy to immigration. How much profit can they make off something or someone.

Deregulation was supposed to bring lower prices to the consumer. The consumer has yet to see lower prices. And never will. But they will see more pollution.  Usually concentrated in poor areas of the state. Don't think for one moment prevailing winds are not taken into account. The rich, most of them Republicans, like to breathe. But don't particularly believe anyone else has the right to.  There are some Democrats who believe the same.

And how many Democrats supported deregulation?

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by: Baby Snooks @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 00:30:11 AM UTC

Like Iraq, deregulation (0.00 / 0)

hasn't worked out the way they told us it would.

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by: Elsbeth @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 18:32:53 PM UTC

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What has? (0.00 / 0)

Has anything in this country worked out the way they told us it would for the past 27 years?  Our basic values apparently left along with Jimmy Carter.  Our politicians and those who serve them, or perhaps that should be those who our politicians serve, have no interest whatsoever in the public interest.

The indictment of Louisiana congressman William Jefferson today sums up the state of affairs of our country.  His sole crime to some is simply that he got caught. Which is really the sole crime Tom De Lay committed.  For every one that gets caught, ten more just become more careful. Or manage to get their peers to change the laws to create "gray areas" of the law if not change the law altogether. To make what is illegal suddenly legal.

This country, literally, is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket. The handbasket, of course, stuffed with money.

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by: Baby Snooks @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 23:39:13 PM UTC

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