I want to know, although with PACs these days it is difficult to tell, but, how much of the $6 million he raised in his first day was from individuals and how much is from the petroleum industry?
I won't vote for him no matter how much he tries.
Former President Obama likes the idea of turning Texas blue. My question is, "At what cost will Texas turn blue?" I am not interested in political goals. I am interested in the future of the young people of the USA. Beto O'Rouke is a false face on the past.
March 17, 2019
By Bill McKibben
Listening to Beto O’Rourke, (click here) who, in a video posted on Thursday, announced that he is running for President, it’s hard not to admire his buoyantly, even boyishly, optimistic conviction that, if we all simply connect, we can fashion a kinder America. He comes across as the anti-Trump, reaching out to the best in us. In his announcement video, O’Rourke says that “this moment of peril produces perhaps the greatest moment of promise for this country.”...
...In fact, that transition is already starting to happen in places such as India and China, where the use of renewable energy is increasing at a breakneck pace because it is both cheap and clean. And it could happen here, too: as the C.E.O. of a solar company said earlier this year, “I can beat a gas peaker anywhere in this country with a solar-plus-storage power plant.”...
It is not my problem that Texas didn't change it's ways in providing an economy for it's people. The collapse of the prices in petroleum was predictable and despite the denial of 2005 as Peak Oil, it was and still is.
There is no future for the Texas economy no matter how much they try to ship it's carbon fuels out of the country. The world is changing and simply because Trump is a stupid man that can be lead around by the nose of the petroleum industry doesn't mean Texas has a future in maintaining AN OLD ENERGY PARADIGM.
NO ONE WANTS IT ANYMORE. TEXAS MISSED THE BOAT.
In the entire history of California wind turbines and solar fields has anyone complained of a health problem. The petroleum industry/carbon fuel industry is the same old paradigm with the same old indifference to anything that stands in the way of stockholder's dollars.
Within a week of the start of the natural gas leak in Los Angeles, (click here) Gabriel Khanlian's 2-year-old daughter developed a rash all over her body. His sons—ages 6 and 8—got "bloody boogers" and broke out in hives, he said, while his wife became nauseous. Khanlian himself coughed up blood.
The family's house in the Porter Ranch neighborhood is about three-quarters of a mile from the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, which began leaking methane Oct. 23. They're among hundreds of residents who have reported health problems, including headaches, vomiting and nosebleeds.
California regulators attribute the symptoms to mercaptans—sulfurous chemicals that are added to natural gas to aid in the detection of leaks. They say the health problems are temporary and will not lead to long-term damage.
Some health experts are skeptical, however, because there's virtually no research on prolonged exposure to mercaptans. There are many different types of mercaptans, which often irritate the skin, eyes and respiratory system. Other researchers suggest the health problems may be caused by other substances in the leaking gas....
California regulators attribute the symptoms to mercaptans—sulfurous chemicals that are added to natural gas to aid in the detection of leaks. They say the health problems are temporary and will not lead to long-term damage.
Some health experts are skeptical, however, because there's virtually no research on prolonged exposure to mercaptans. There are many different types of mercaptans, which often irritate the skin, eyes and respiratory system. Other researchers suggest the health problems may be caused by other substances in the leaking gas....
