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Ephraim Gadsby
07/15/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
This should have been printed in Comic Sans and illustrated with ClipArt. And the copy editor should have left her emoticons in.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
It's interesting how if we rely more on wind, solar, biomass and energy efficiency we will be outsourcing our energy supply to Russia and China. I can't wait to see the big tankers full of wind and sun arriving in our ports.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
"Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source."

The coal's technology? The state's?

FAILIN.
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FrankenPC
07/14/09

@HiredGoons: HAHAHA!! Classic!

On another note, I had no idea Palin could write.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@FrankenPC: I'm pretty sure anything by her appearing in print was dictated into a tape recorder on the back of a four-wheeler, transcribed on an IBM Selectric hooked up to a generator and then strapped to a Caribou shot out of a cannon, aimed in the general direction of the Wire Services.

The rest is clearly God's work.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source.

I was unaware coal had its own technology. We should really take care of coal before it decides to rise up against us, and burn OUR bodies for warmth.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@Pope John Peeps II: damn it.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It would be so coallous of them.
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Pope John Peeps II
07/14/09

@HiredGoons: I see our senses of humour are mined from the same vein.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@Pope John Peeps II: don't stoke my furnace, I'm still fuming.
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i'm a bottle
07/15/09

@Pope John Peeps II: There's a follow-up to Nailin' Palin in the works. It's called Shaftin' Sarah.
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intime
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Yeah, the resources that God created underfoot right here in America only 6000 years ago, right, Sarah?
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@intime: I hope somebody tells her that oil comes from fossils, that will really fuck with her.
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gawkimo
07/14/09

@HiredGoons: She could also use a lesson on who we actually depend on for oil. Russia and China are not major suppliers for the US. I'm not even sure we get any oil from China since China is one of the giant consumers. She listed Russia and China because they sound scarier than Canada and Mexico.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@gawkimo: so she can see oil from her house.
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Steverino Begins
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Seriously, do we really need to be subjected to Op Eds from people who quit their jobs? Will this be part of a series?

"Hey, Ford, fuck you and your lame pension program! But here's my latest idea for a moderately priced sport utility vehicle."
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Steverino Begins
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
"And just think...nobody thought this political career could continue." [makes out with Washington Post, exits]
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Richard Lawson
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Whatever your feelings on Cap-and-Trade are, we're all in agreement that "clean coal technology" is a complete and utter horseshit lie, right?
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resipsaloquacious
07/14/09

@Richard Lawson:

What are you talking about? They should have that little mess in Harriman, Tenn. cleaned up in no time.
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HiredGoons
07/14/09

@Richard Lawson: also a bold faced one.

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MaelstromInTheMiddle
07/14/09

@Richard Lawson: What?! Loretta Lynn can attest coal is so clean she was practically the Noxema girl in her day. Those miners are just doing it wrong.
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uncivilly obedient
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
"....it's something hated by the energy conglomerates that Obama says will help save the earth from environmental destruction, which naturally leads us to lean toward being in favor of it."

I got a chill when I read that last sentence. Are you naturally lead to be in favor of it because of the "save the earth" and the "hated by energy conglomerates" part, or the "Obama says" part?

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The Cajun Boy
07/14/09

@uncivily obedient: Honestly, I'm more in favor of anything hated by the energy conglomerates. I don't trust any of those fuckers. At all.
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@The Cajun Boy: The energy conglomerates are nasty fuckers, the lot of them. They are in large part why the US has had no energy policy for the past 20 years. We need to strip them of their power over the Congress.

Still, Cap and Trade doesn't really do anything other than tax the shit out of consumers and industries that can least afford it. I'd be in favor of a plan like this if we invested in making alternative fuel technologies more available and affordable prior to its inception.

To me Cap and Trade is like taxing the hell out of driving a car when there is no public transportation available in a city. You have no true alternatives.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/14/09

@uncivily obedient: all of the above ... save the earth AND hated by energy conglomerates AND obama says, my .025 anywayz
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids: one teensy correction; the us has in fact had an energy policy for the past 30 years: make the energy conglomerates in general and the oil cos and the coal cos, especially the saudis who love the bush family so much even richer, while preventing anything that looks like alternative energy green energy or conservation. it's been an extremely clear and focused policy if u look back at three decades of results since the 70s when opec had the world by the balls and nobody has done anything to fix that since. accident? i think now. policy? absolutely.
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I stand corrected: I should have said a crappy energy policy.
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Dr. Nick
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Sarah Palin is the herpes of politics. You keep hoping she's gone, but you just know she'll keep coming back. Forever.
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HeathersBrother
07/14/09

@Dr. Nick: It's as plain as the palin on nose's face
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pufflehuff
07/14/09

@HeathersBrother: Her?
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HeathersBrother
07/15/09

@pufflehuff: No. Just a cultural reference gone wrong, apparently.
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
"...the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil." Question? Same God that put half of the world's oil underneath countries that are primarily Muslim and allows nuclear technology to be doled out to the likes of Iran and Pakistan? Or are there multiple gods working in the field of energy and the Islamic God is just better at it?

Please, don't take my making fun of Sarah Palin as any sort of support for Cap and Trade. As soon as I figure it out, I will be strongly against it.
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: A very poor spokesperson who is light on the details (and coherency), but that doesn't mean she is wrong.

Cap and Trade imposes significant taxes on energy which will hit the vast majority of Americans, saving those who are "poor enough" to qualify for energy credits - whatever those are. More importantly, it will tax the industrial complex of our nation at a time we and they can least afford it.

There must be a better way to encourage alternative energy sources than taxing the shit out of our current ones. The US has had a horrible energy policy for 20+ years. This will make it no better.

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NinaHagen
07/14/09

@ChillbearLatrigue:Infidel.
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Dürer's Rhino
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids: You're absolutely right. Our Energy Company sent out a flier explaining their position on cap & trade as well as the potential for renewables in our state. What it boiled down to was that no matter how the policy changed they would be passing the costs to the consumer and that they would not shoulder a single penny of it. It basically told us to prepare for significantly higher power bills ...and that they like their Scotch at least 50 years old and their cigars Cuban
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@Dürer's Rhino: Well of course the energy companies aren't going to eat the cost. They are a BUSINESS. They want to make money for themselves and their shareholders. Even if the US were to nationalize the power companies, the cost is going to be passed on to the consumer.

Unless you plan on capping rates (and we saw how well that worked out in California a few years back), consumer energy costs will soar under this plan.
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Dürer's Rhino
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids: Agreed.
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bowel_and_the_obstructors
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids: God forbid energy prices should actually reflect their true cost, including the costs of CO2 pollution.
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@bowel_and_the_obstructors: I have no problem with their "true cost" if there is a viable alternative available. The US has mistakenly not allowed nuclear power plants to be built in decades, we have limited refineries, limited natural gas distribution, etc..

I've been trying for year's to have Southern CT Gas bring the gas line up our street 115 feet so I can use natural gas for heating vs oil. Five other neighbors would jump on the nat gas band wagon with me. They won't do it.

I would not be against Cap and Trade if we had other options available to the consumer and industry.
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bowel_and_the_obstructors
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids: And the problem all along has been that the traditional energy sources have been cheap. Industry and consumer alike need a kick in the ass and cap and trade might do it.
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momof3wildkids
07/14/09

@bowel_and_the_obstructors: I see where you are going with this. However, I believe that government intervention has put us in this pickle, to some degree. There were plenty of companies who wanted to build nuclear plants, but the US gov't threw a wrench into those plans after 3-Mile Island. Refineries? We don't have enough not because of consumers and industry, but because of gov't intervention.

I hope the US can develop viable alternatives to the fossil fuels and foreign dependence on oil without cap and trade happening first. After additional options are available, cap and trade makes sense to me.
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Dürer's Rhino
07/14/09

@momof3wildkids:

There were plenty of companies who wanted to build nuclear plants, but the US gov't threw a wrench into those plans after 3-Mile Island.

Consumers, in the form of city, county, and state legistlators, had everything to do with nuclear power becoming undesirable to end-users. It's true that 3 Mile Island was a catalyst but that event also taught us that the safety regulations put in place by the US government worked. People became afraid of it though, and after Chernobyl, no amount of safety precautions could be placed to convince most that nuclear power at least as safe as any other method, and a whole lot less expensive in the end.
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momo
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
Were I more industrious, I'd run out and buy a wide-ruled composition pad then write out the piece in big loopy letters, dotting the i's with smileys and hearts and doodling oil rigs and guns and balloon-lettered 'Todd's. While it wouldn't be the original unedited post as submitted, it would likely be a reasonable facsimile.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
illiterate, unthinking, spouting buzz words and tired ideas like a deranged parrot: john mccain's pick for vp. mavericky mavericky mavericky mavericky
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The Cajun Boy
07/14/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Now tell us how you REALLY feel!
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i'm a bottle
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
$4.2 billion over eight years from the job losses that will result? Really? Can I see your work on that?
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BxgrlJeri
07/14/09

In reply to Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Writer
No op-ed piece is really complete without the word "clobber."
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WackoJacko
07/14/09

@BxgrlJeri: holla at me now dontcha know.
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