Environmental groups are the worst.
Ignorant.
Dumb.
Etc…
They always give Mike Castle high scores based on the few crumb votes that he tosses off each year to keep his “maverick” credentials burnished - and utterly ignore that fact that he worked hard to elect George Bush TWICE and voted with Bush on Iraq 95% of the time.
Even Alan Mueller falls for this transparent bullshit and it drives me nuts.
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1 No Name for Privacy // May 30, 2008 at 11:05 am
Alan Muller too? Sh*t he’s my envihero. Hope he reads this and sends a retort.
2 Al Mascitti // May 30, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Keep in mind, Jason, that many Delaware Dems would be worse, because their lords and masters, the unions, place a much higher priority on their bottom line than the environment.
If you don’t believe me, go to an environmental hearing for the Delaware City oil refinery sometime — a parade of union guys can always be found praising the idea of giving the company, whichever one owns it at any given time, whatever it wants. And it was unions that wanted a new coal plant in Indian River Bay instead of the offshore wind farm, because the coal plant would have required more workers to build.
3 yadayadayada // May 30, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yesterday Mike Castle told somebody on WGMD talk radio yesterday that he supports “clean coal” technology development. Wants nuclear too. I’ll trust em when they volunteer to store the stuff under their own houses.
4 Nancy Willing // May 30, 2008 at 1:20 pm
McCain came out with some ‘international nuke waste depository dream idea. whaaa?
Castle and McCain have both endorsed Yucca Mountain as the answer but Frieda Berryhill knows better than anyone why this is crap.
The money needed to both construct nuke energy and the subsidies offered make the alternatives the comparative and sensible path to future energy independence.
Not one of Delaware’s federal representatives have split from the GOP corporatists-in-the-pocket meme-Cheney model until some meager attempts in the last month.
The ’safe/clean coal meme is untested bull at this point no matter what Minner and NRG espouse.
Isn’t it time that special interests took a back seat
to humankind’s interests?
5 Al Mascitti // May 31, 2008 at 10:41 am
Castle picked a bad day to support clean coal. NYTimes front-paged a longish piece Friday on the poster project for so-called clean coal, and it has hit all sorts of problems. It’s like Bush’s praise of the hydrogen car — sell ‘em a sci-fi hi-tech promise for the future so you don’t have to do anything today.
Here’s a link, but I think you have to be a subscriber:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/business/30coal.html?em&ex=1212292800&en=425f6009b9e65c19&ei=5087%0A
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