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I guess we need to start somewhere. Yea shut them down.

I’ll start making a list of departments and agencies to be shut down for the new leader of the free Republic. Actually it would be much easier to make a short list of the ones to be saved.

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“they have been sucking down $billions since the 70′s (?) and have yet to produce on iota of energy?

Actually, I’m thinking they have created the largest mass on energy since God himself created the earth.

http://youtu.be/6mqZwOQTLx4

In my personal opinion, there needs to be less concern now about economics and more information needs to be acted upon. Otherwise we will have morons at flood control sticking windmills in the ocean floor creating more fubar.

Certainly government is not the answer to a non-existing problem.

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When Al gore heard he got so freaken upset he had a stroke. http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/08/al-gores-bullst-rant-audio/

Funny how the mainstream media did not publish NASA’a most recent study with the Advanced Microwave Scaning Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua Satilite.

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/07/28/nasa-satellite-un/

Climategate…if it’s not over, it will be soon. Good riddence!

Now what will our local church of climatology do? I have an Idea! Muck out the plugged flood channels. That’s what we pay SCWA to do.

Leave the alternative energy to the DOE that is what THEY are paid to do.

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Assuming that the NIMBYs along the coast would even stand for wind generators off shore, that is about the only option out there for “sustainable” power. The only option that is modestly efficient and can be done, anyway.

Clean, sustainable and capable of large scale generation is hydro-electricity… but the greens won’t allow that either. For all the fighting that would be involved, we might as well go the full monty and open up the off shore to oil and gas exploration and production. That would at least bring thousands of jobs into the county that we all could use.

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Local flood control taxes have never paid for much more then brush cutting and ditch cleaning. Nearly all the flood control projects were paid for by the Army Corp of Engineers. Return on investment was never a consideration. The Petaluma River flood control project is a prime example. At the time it was conceived it would have been more cost effective to return the lands protected to wetland.

The gravy train ended with the presidency of Ronald Regan. He put in new funding rules. The local beneficiaries of a project should pay 2/3rds of the cost. The Corp of Engineers went out of business. There were no projects that cold be justified.

The Petaluma River project is the exception. Woolsey has be very adept at slipping in special appropriations to keep that project alive.

But the Water Agency is a quick study. Having been largely responsible for the destruction of fish habitat they now seek out millions in federal grants to protect salmon. They were a lot better at the former, fish runs continue to decline but it still pays good. And they’re into lots of other “green” projects to that have nothing to do with flood control or water delivery.

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Poor Obama, tried to relieve prices by releasing oil from the strategic reserve. An empty threat. There was no place to put it. Prices where spiking and an oil contango was in effect. Every oil tank and tanker was filled to the brim, hording for the futures market to catch match the spot market.

That’s not to say that our Sonoma County Water Agency are not whores. They’re are not the salt water agency, nor the energy agency. I’ll post on them tomorrow.

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The perspective of county officials should be frightening to anyone respectful of taxpayer dollars.

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Oh well,that was only MILLIONS down the green drain.

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SOMEDAY……. we’ll have a viable alternative. Until then we need to stop dreaming and face the reality of our current technological and financial limitations.

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Like the SMART train dream, the feds can’t fund these dreams or nightmares, depending on how you look at it as they have spent all of our tax money on Obama care, social programs and paying the wages and benefits of public sector employees for a year.

It is back to the old windmill and solar panels for California energy. Hopefully the sun stays out for at least 20 a day and the wind blows constantly at 20 knots or we are going to be cold, dark and hungry here in California when our politicans go truly green.

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