Saturday, December 16, 2006

And Another Thing Arnold…

On November 14th The Ventura County Air Quality Control Board unanimously voted to hold the Cabrillo Port LNG proposal to the air quality standards of our County. No longer will they be able to ignore the rules and pollute our air. Thank you to our fellow citizens on the board. As you would expect, the president of this foreign owned multinational corporation, Renee Klimczak, thinks that the ruling is irrelevant. Like all sociopaths, they insist that they are above our laws.

If air quality doesn’t concern you, maybe giving this company a monopoly will. We’ll have Enron style market manipulation on our hands if we let these criminal types have their way. A special prosecutor in Australia has charged That BHP Billiton conspired to sell Saddam Hussein Australian Wheat in 1996 bypassing American trade sanctions so they could get their hands on Iraqi oil and gas rights. Are these the kind of people we want to control the energy supply to our country? They could park their tankers off our coast and refuse to unload until the price was right. India was led to believe that LNG would be a good source of cheap energy for their country. They are not building any more LNG plants and looking at coal all because the price of LNG is being jacked up by these greedy pigs.


It is time for reelected Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to stand by his campaign promises to reduce greenhouse gasses and veto this ridiculous offshore experiment. He can afford to give back the hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions he received from them. If not, I suggest he take on a new movie persona.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as “The Bloviator”.

Since their own people in Australia don’t want LNG around either, I suggest that BHP Billiton find another way to sell their gas. I propose that instead of exporting LNG here they take the 800 million from Cabrillo port and use it to settle immigrants in their own country. There are over 300 million people in the United States with more on the way all the time. Why not take a few million off our hands? After all Australia has a whole continent to fill up. BHP will gain customers for their gas and we will avoid LNG completely. In the process, we save ourselves from 25 million tons of greenhouse gasses generated by their filthy fossil fuel project. We can even lend them a ship. I don’t think the Queen Mary is doing much these days and since immigrants don’t receive the respect here that they deserve, why not throw in the statue of liberty to boot? Now I call that a good deal. Much better than this blunder from the land down under.


If you go to http://stoplng.blogspot.com/ you will find links to sources for my previous post, “Wait A Minute Arnold”. Some people asked for sources, there they are. I have established a channel at Youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6790BD162AA51143 It has a 4 part presentation from Loretta Lynch, former member of the California Public Utilities Commission entitled “The Case Against LNG”. In this lecture, Loretta takes “head on” the assertion that we are running out of natural gas. She is a breath of fresh air in a land of smog compared to the current members of the CPUC who under the leadership of President Michael Peevey, voted to do the bidding of the LNG lobby.

In addition, The OceanChannel.com has a great post about electricity generated from ocean waves called “Mining Wave Power.” http://www.ocean.com/resource.asp?locationid=1&resourceid=6484&ProdId=2873&CatId=1&TabID=&SubTabID=. This story will give you hope that we can solve our energy problems without destroying our economy.

Now is a time to make smart decisions based on legitimate information. It is not a time to allow our government to be manipulated by the fossil fuel industry. Global warming is a scientific fact. We have to change our ways. Let’s be remembered as a smart generation, and not let our children become the last generation.

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