It’s about all kinds of things, but some of them include installing the remote-control thermostats in residential buildings, requiring “utility providers” to achieve absolute reductions in power and fuel usage across their customer base, and preparing homes and businesses to support electric vehicles.

Mandating that an increased percentage of electric power be generated by “alternative” methods — but not, of course, nuclear power — when combined with control of your thermostat and requirements for your power provider to demonstrate reductions in your electricity usage can lead to only one thing: state dictation of how much electricity is available to you. It won’t end with your thermostat, either: everything in your home or business that runs on electrical power will be controlled remotely via the Smart Grid. The most likely regimen would be an average daily allocation that you’d have to figure out how to stay within.

Don’t fall for this, people. There are a number of websites at which these provisions of Waxman-Markey have been parsed out. It’s all in there. This bill is NOT about giving you a better power grid in a way advantageous to you. It’s about controlling your ability to exercise free market demand against that power grid.

Unemployment has a four-letter cause: O-B-A-M-A.

Jim Treacher on July 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM

ROFL!

That was a good one, Jim.

-Dave

By the end of June, the Obama administration had realized that unemployment continued to rise despite all of the pork projects it had funded through Porkulus.

Considering the unemployment rate is now higher than Obama’s team had projected it would be without a stimulus, can we now say that unemployment has risen so much because of porkulus?

Porkulus is like trying to treat a cancer patient with only pain medication. It may cover up the symptoms for a while, but it doesn’t fix the problem. And every employer in the country knows it.

“…the Obama administration had realized that unemployment continued to rise despite because of all of the pork projects it had funded through Porkulus.”

Fixed it.

Not only has it not helped job creation, it’s caused job loss. Businesses see what’s going on, and the uncertainty surrounding the economy and this administrations taxation, spending, nationalization (past and future) have business owners cutting back, curtailing hiring, etc.

…or has the Enviro-Wacko’s story changed again???

PS – Isn’t the US Obamaniac government hell bent for preventing any domestic drilling for new supplies of gas, as well as oil??

Their Smart Grid will enable them to monitor your household thermostat (and eventually other appliances), so if they feel you’re using too much heat in winter, or too much air in summer, they can levy a prohibitive surcharge.

My mechanic worked for the local gas company and they have always had their fleet run on CNG.

barnone on July 8, 2009 at 5:37 PM

Yeah, I’ve got a 16 year old Nissan Pickup for a second car that I’m thinking of converting… I only use it for local run around travel…

Just gotta figure out the cost benefit once I buy a compressor for the house…

There is a $65k PER 18 Wheeler incentive to buy a new vehicle using CNG. The HOPE AND CHANGE will be that if people buy enough trucks, then the truck stops will start will start distributing CNG in greater quantity.

barnone on July 8, 2009 at 5:02 PM

Problem is that they are doing it backwards.

They should use tax incentives to put in the PUMPS. Because if there are not enough pumps nationwide, you CAN’T buy the truck…

As usual, they try to do things backwards, which means it will not work.

Way too many Bob’s around here.

What do you call a guy with no arms and not legs floating in the river?……..

Sorry. I couldn’t control myself

AverageJoe on July 8, 2009 at 5:13 PM

Nick Vujicic is the new answer.

RE: Alternative Fuel Mixture Tax Credit

Dear Senators Baucus and Grassley,

I make my living working for PAPER COMPANY in the forest products industry. I am extremely proud that our industry is the leading producer and user of renewable biomass energy in the nation. That’s why I am concerned that you are considering disqualifying black liquor, a renewable biomass byproduct of the paper-making process, from eligibility for the alternative fuels mixture tax credit. Disqualifying black liquor from credit eligibility would threaten the health of our industry and jeopardize the good-paying “green” jobs it provides.

Black liquor is a renewable biomass fuel used by pulp mills to produce electricity and heat, thus making it possible for those facilities to generate approximately 66 percent of their energy needs onsite. Using black liquor for fuel avoids fossil fuel use and, unlike fossil fuel, black liquor is carbon neutral-thus providing exactly the kind of environmentally friendly energy that the alternative fuel mixture tax credit was designed to encourage. In fact, the energy we produce from biomass exceeds the total energy produced from solar, wind and geothermal power combined.

You need to preserve the eligibility of forest products facilities to receive this credit not only because of the industry’s contribution to renewable energy production but also because good paying jobs, like mine, could be lost by this action. The economic downturn has caused a dramatic decline in demand for consumer goods, which in turn has caused an historic decline in demand for paper, packaging and building materials. The forest products industry has already lost 300,000 workers since 2006: a quarter of its workforce. When mills close, manufacturing jobs are lost, and the renewable energy they produce is lost, too.

I urge you not to revoke this important tax credit. By maintaining black liquor’s eligibility, you are supporting renewable energy production and “green” manufacturing jobs.

Sincerely,

James

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Obama and Dems, picking the winners and losers.

Way too many Bob’s around here.

What do you call a guy with no arms and not legs floating in the river?……..

Sorry. I couldn’t control myself

Bob – you can buy for $350 an adapter with computer so that your current car can run on high pressure CNG AND/OR gasoline.
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You can plug in at home at night, fill up a small tank in your trunk and get about 70 miles until you need to run on gasoline.

CNG vehicles aready work. I’m just suggesting making CNG available at gas stations, and for it to be an option from a Major Car company that consumers can then choose.

Romeo13 on July 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Sounds good to me.

CNG vehicles aready work. I’m just suggesting making CNG available at gas stations, and for it to be an option from a Major Car company that consumers can then choose.

Romeo13 on July 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM

My point was: I won’t buy a CNG car as long as I can buy some Detroit Tennessee FOMOCO iron.

So is the solution to getting a brick to fly.

Would you buy a brick that flys? Me neither.

BobMbx on July 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM

Huh? Its already being done. It works. Its using an energy form we have in abundance. It keeps that money in OUR economy instead of shipping it to other countries.

CNG vehicles aready work. I’m just suggesting making CNG available at gas stations, and for it to be an option from a Major Car company that consumers can then choose.

Here http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/12/billions-in-us-bonds-seized-in-smuggling-operation/ and here http://cryptogon.com/?p=9095

riverrat10k on July 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Thanks!

Can you give us a link?

jazz_piano on July 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM

Here http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/12/billions-in-us-bonds-seized-in-smuggling-operation/ and here http://cryptogon.com/?p=9095