Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees Tuesday to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, a move designed to help advance climate legislation in Congress.Obama, a Democrat trying to win Republican support for a bill to overhaul U.S. energy practices, said the United States needed to increase its supply of nuclear power to meet its energy needs and fight climate change........
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Kvell...... impress your friends and family ... KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure, Jewish parents are prone to kvell over ...
www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm
The Candidate as Peter Sellers...Prediction
Our Congressman goes "ballistic?" I'm predicting political opportunism on the horizon..... and he get's very angry with pesky me if he sees this!!! (in 2008 I accurately predicted his flip on oil drilling)
He'll finally comes around to my position, the common sense position, and supports the construction of new nuclear power plants. This is what I'm expecting when he senses the juggernaut (it's all over the cable news) for new nuclear power generation in the United States. It's the logical position many of us haven't been afraid to advocate for years, be us Republican............or Democrat- blue state or red state. Better late than never Congressman.
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Stein for Congress 2010...... a history of common sense and consistency, twice; as a candidate in 2009; Stein for Governor (I) and in 2008; Stein for Congress (again, running as an Independent.)
APP.Com and Asbury Park Press October 29,2009
Political candidates thumbing nose at electorate
Only 14 percent of state Assembly candidates and three of the 12 gubernatorial candidates in Tuesday's election returned questionnaires from Project Vote Smart soliciting their views on issues, further demonstrating the contempt incumbents and challengers alike have for the voter.
http://www.app.com/article/20091029/OPINION01/910300328/1029/OPINION
Project Vote Smart: Gary Stein (various slogans)
Environment and Energy Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.
[X] a) Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
[X] b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
[ ] c) Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
[ ] d) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
[X] e) Support funding for improvements to New Jersey's power generating and transmission facilities.
[ ] f) Support funding for open space preservation.
[X] g) Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
[ ] h) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
i) Other or expanded principles
[Answer: I'm for fast tracking new nuclear facilities. That would take care of letter g, and give us an A+ rating with environmental groups regarding carbon credits and greenhouse gasses. Oh, it wouldn't? Yes they hate nuclear, we'll just wait for another Middle East wake up call; or for the next generation of electric cars to fly out of dealer show rooms- and we won't have enough power in the grid.
Forget anymore luxuries like letters d and f. I'd love to increase money for that, but we're broke. Funny isn't it, all the tough choices we have to make now?]
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Hall Institute of Public Policy
Question 2 What public policy directives would you institutionalize to balance the need to protect New Jersey’s environment with the need to ensure a healthy business climate?
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 15:28 Can I stay on topic more then one week? No. Here’s my dilemma- there’s 13 candidates- 3 get more then a few chances to be heard. This is one place where the other 10 annoyances get a platform. It should be enough to draw some media attention but I’m afraid it doesn’t. What can I do to raise my visibility and maybe shake things up for me?
Rant, dispense with question #2 and editorialize about something else. I’d send a message to the business community that we’re smarter then the other states, because as Governor I’d promote nuclear energy. If that meant being a fool and joking we should put a reactor in the Pine Land State Forest- because no community wanted it (along with the taxes it would generate) --I’d still say it. Why? In the Middle East, Israel will be desperate soon to stop, ironically, Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. If an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities doesn’t send oil over $200 a barrel, then some other tin-pot dictator- sitting on his huge oil reserves- will mischievously push the world to the edge of a global depression again.
Why the cynicism? Because I’ve had this obsession for two years with our part of the world (Mexico), and there’s a golden opportunity here- and nobody reacts to all I’ve written. It’s voluminous.
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Stein for Congress 2008
THE STEIN SMOR-GAS-BOARD
.......Call it the Paris Hilton Plan (I can’t believe what I saw on TV today 8/6/08) Or call it the Democratic Obama Plan, the Republican McCain Plan, The New Deal, The Fair Deal, nobody cares. GO drill off shore and in Anwar, eliminate Big Oil tax breaks, go with nuclear, fund alternatives, increase the gas tax, and send you a rebate. Withdraw oil from strategic reserves, increase the Corporate Average Fuel Standards, take over GM., Ford and Chrysler health care..WHAAAT!.!!!!!!! Call it the first step toward Universal Health Care....
OR THE STATUS QUO (gridlock) HE BRINGS HOME THE BACON (pork)
What about our seven term incumbent? He's old school. He's too crafty by half, is under the radar, contributes to legislative gridlock and likes earmarks (legislative pork). Other then that he's great! I voted for him in seven elections. 2008: Times have changed.
Consider his ideas on new energy policy. He says he's for a fast-track broad based plan with laser-type focus, then as a Republican, he probably should be for new offshore drilling, and fast. He is not. Is he saying let's send the most dollars we can to foreign governments, and sit on our reserves?....._______________________________________________________________________
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