And here I thought Ohio was a sovereign state....

Kasich bows to the Governor of New York and his threats. Sad!

Instead of protecting the state of Ohio's economic future, Kasich caves in to the enviro-Nazis. Unbelievable!

Dispatch story here

Very seldom do I agree with these two, but....

Here Thomoas Suddes suggests that Ohio Constitutional changes might be in order. While I don't agree with change just for change's sake, Suddes has one good argument.

Rid ourselves of our self imposed term limits on House and Senate members. He says: "First and foremost would be repeal of General Assembly term limits, which curse Ohio with a legislature always looking for its next job rather than finishing the job at hand." I think the larger reason would be that the voters can't vote for who they want. The voters should decide a term limit on the elected member's merits by voting intelligently. However, since the voters know they can't / don't / won't vote intelligently, they limited themselves with term limits. Seems rather childish to me.

Here's an idea for the voters that don't trust themselves to make the correct choices when voting.........don't vote!

Here, Jim Phillips thinks it is a big deal for law enforcement to fake evidence. I do too. I'm not sure why Sheriff Kelley insists on employing this individual.

Previous post on this subject

Democrats to make it harder to drill for our "clean" energy source, Natural Gas

Remember awhile back I said that Natural Gas will be the next energy producer in their sights?

First go after "dirty" coal. Now they are going after what they used to call the clean alternative, natural gas.

This is what we get for voting these anti-American socialists into office.

Meigs County should be most grateful they are unemployed

Or at least, that's what the EnviroNazis think you should think.

Thankful for news that plans to build coal plant have been scrapped

AMP not building coal plant in Meigs county

Cleveland.com story

If you don't like high electric rates, you need to put the blame where it belongs. Not with AMP or AEP, but with the EnviroNazis, from obama on down.

Same goes if you or a family member are unemployed.

Next stop for the EnviroNazis? Protest natural gas.

The Nazis don't care who does not have jobs....all they care about is having a cause and "doing something". They do not care about the people.

If they really cared about the "environment", they'd disconnect the electricity from their homes and live like the cavemen they want everyone else to become.

Makes one wonder how long it will take for a new coal powered plant to be built across the river in West Virginia to take up the slack.

Where's Ted Strickland and Debbie Phillips. They paid lip service to the proposed AMP plant, but I can't find where they really pushed AMP to build it.

Brandishing chainsaws

Someone took our advice. The EnviroNazis are upset that someone was walking around with a chainsaw under the trees where they are illegally perched.....trying to save the planet, of course.

EnviroNazi "news" release here.

"Stocks and Steepleton have endured 24-hour sleep deprivation tactics and the brandishing of a chainsaw. All day and all night Massey security personnel have flashed bright lights, sounded air horns, and banged loudly on metal buckets in an effort to prevent the tree sitters from getting any sleep. “The security guards' actions with the lights and air horns are making the situation less safe,” Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice volunteer Charles Suggs said. “Depriving sleep from people who have to maintain safety systems to prevent a fatal fall endangers their lives.”"

If you were really concerned about a fatal fall, one way to ensure this would not happen would be to stay on the ground.

EnviroNazis to invade West Virginia

Here is a group of EnviroNazis putting out a call for more of their ilk to join them.

link here

Here's how to deal with the one remaining (literal) tree hugger.

EnviroNazis invade Racoon's crib

Story here:

PETTRY BOTTOM, W.VA. — It's day two of their treetop protest, and two activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining say they don't plan to leave.

Nick Stocks and Laura Steepleton remained on platforms Wednesday, more than 80 feet above the ground near Massey Energy's Edwight mine in Raleigh County.

They want Virginia-based Massey to stop blasting mountain ridges to get the coal underneath.

They're within 300 feet of the blasting zone, and state law prohibits blasting when people are that close.

Two protesters on the ground were cited for trespassing, but police have not attempted to approach Stocks or Steepleton.

Police say they worry about safety, but the protesters affiliated with Climate Ground Zero say they're tied to the trees.

This reminds me of another protester in a tree that fell and acquired brain damage...the question at the time was, was this a pre-existing condition?

Oil: Protecting the Earth from Renewable Energy for 148 Years

Energy Tribune story

In the environmental Dark Ages before the discovery of oil, man’s energy needs had to be extracted from the living world. Whole continents were deforested in the quest for firewood. Priceless wetlands were strip-mined for peat. Bees were robbed of their wax to make candles. Even when millions were starving, valuable animal fats and plant oils were rendered into fuel to illuminate the homes of the rich.

Alas, it appears those times may soon return as environmentalists, politicians, and the media push for man’s energy needs to be met once more by the limited capacity of field and fjord. But for one brief moment in man’s planet-killing history, oil was there to carry the burden that man would have otherwise hoisted upon the bowed back of nature. Just look at what oil did for the whales.

In the first age of renewable energy, man was so desperate for even small quantities of transportable hydrocarbon fuel (today so damned for its very abundance), that fleets of ships continually patrolled the oceans in search of ever fewer great whales.

Today it is unbelievable that the intelligent whale, universally regarded as a profound natural wonder, was once appreciated principally as a source of lard. But that very fact is testament to energy’s scarcity before the advent of crude oil. By today’s standards, even a large whale has only a negligible amount of oil – perhaps 200 barrels. The entire world production of whale oil was less than 500,000 barrels per year for most of the 19th century.

Yet for this scant annual prize – equal to about 9.6 minutes of production for today’s oil industry – the world’s whales were hunted so nearly to extinction that even today many remain rare. Many species doubtless would have become extinct had Col. Drake not struck oil in Pennsylvania in 1859. That year, U.S. crude oil production was 2,000 barrels. The next year, it was equal to the entire annual whale oil production of 500,000 barrels. By 1861, crude was pumping at 2,000,000 barrels a year and growing. Within a decade, most of America’s whaling fleet was out of business.

Together with coal, oil opened up an unimaginable quantity of energy that came from outside the contemporary natural productivity of the Earth. For the first time, societies could grow far beyond the biological energy limits of their landmass. Wealth skyrocketed. Food supplies were no longer diverted to energy needs. Populations blossomed, and yet man’s energy-motivated environmental depredations fell significantly.

Fossil fuels have provided freedom from the constraints of biology and agriculture to such an extent that most of us have forgotten exactly how energy-poor a world powered by biofuels can be. Consider that the United States consumes nearly 4.39x1016 BTUs of crude oil per year. In absolute energy value, the entire corn crop in the U.S. could provide just 10 percent of that, and the entire world’s corn crop, only 23 percent.

So if the U.S. can cut energy use by 77 percent, find a 100-percent efficient means of converting corn into fuel, and corner all of Earth’s annual corn crop, we can just get by without oil (assuming coal, nuclear, and gas are still OK). And of course, we’ll need to ignore that corn is plowed, planted, fertilized, harvested, and transported with petroleum energy. Factor that in, and I’m sure we could still squeak by at the equivalent of 20 percent of current petroleum capacity, if we also consumed the world’s entire rice crop. What we (and the Chinese) would eat under this scenario is a little unclear (perhaps we could eat the whales), and I suppose the Europeans would be reduced to living off wind power and pine nuts.

But the exercise demonstrates the burden fossil fuels have lifted from the environment, and how accustomed all six billion of us have become to eating. Even the paltry efforts toward already subsidized biofuels have had an impact. The U.S. demand for ethanol has helped drive the price of corn tortillas beyond the reach of some impoverished Mexicans, precipitating calls for price controls and export restrictions. Unfortunately, the competition between mouths and motors can only increase, and the demands placed on our living planet can only get worse as the second age of renewable energy dawns prematurely.

Gannett News thinks Zach Space is a conservative

One among many reasons that no one takes the "media" serious.

Zach Space just voted for the largest tax increase in US history. Voted with the EnviroNazis in killing our coal based jobs. Voted to raise utility rates....this is just the highlights of the cap and tax bill that Space voted for.

Yet, Gannett News labels him a conservative? What planet are they on? Well, it is the Washington bureau after all.

"WASHINGTON - Ohio Rep. Zack Space, along with several other conservative House Democrats, ....."

More EnviroNazi idiocy

Cash for "clunkers". With the end result of drying up the supply of cheap cars that those with modest income can afford. Yep, the democrats are for the poor alright!

Mises Daily article here

"Who could possibly claim that buying up drivable used cars at prices far in excess of their market value, for the express purpose of destroying them, will be beneficial for the economy or the planet? You guessed it: a combination of economy-saving politicians and earth-saving green activists are peddling the wonders of a new government program popularly known as "Cash for Clunkers.""

Just who are the real thugs?

Here's the Ohio Citizen Action EnviroNazi group whining about people fighting to keep their jobs.

You have a group of EnviroNazis invading West Virginia with the intent of shutting down coal mines and with it the jobs that West Virginian's depend on.

It's about time someone started standing up to these EnviroNazis.

This threatening act is a part of a campaign of intimidation where mountaintop removal supporters repeatedly shout obscenities and threaten violence. The June 23rd Protest at Marsh Fork Elementary saw hundreds of mountaintop removal supporters shout obscenities at families and saw one peaceful protester slapped in the face by a woman in miner’s stripes. The week leading up to the Mountain Keepers Festival saw repeated threats of violence to the festival.

Keep in mind that their web post was written to put the best light on the EnviroNazis and the worst light on the folks that actually live there and want to keep their jobs.

So, do you really think they would be outraged if an EnvroNazi had slapped a coal miner? Of course emotions are high when you have an outside group trying to make you unemployed.

The EnviroNazi hypocrites need to leave the grid

If coal is so bad, the EnviroNazis need to take their own advice and lead the way off the grid.

In 2000, 90% of Ohio's electricity (I've heard it's 87.5% now) was generated by coal burning power plants.

If they truly feel that this is a huge hazard, they need to turn their electric breaker off 90% of the time.

They could spend the extra time blowing weed or something else productive....like the women shaving their legs.

What hypocrisy to use electricity generated by coal to tell us how bad coal is for us! If they really cared about the people around the power plants (if you believe their faked health concerns for us) they'd quit using electricity from the grid.

Again the same argument (all the EnviroNazi groups (a couple of days ago it was the Sierra Club) must get the same talking points faxed to them) about jobs being given to folks outside of Meigs County.

"However, Belz believes that it is no guarantee that the jobs would go to people in Meigs County, and that people from out of town would be the ones most likely to take charge.

"When the Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia was being put up, they came in from out of town," she said. "Those weren't local jobs that were being given out.""

Rest of OU Post's story here

And again, there are only so many trained pipe fitters, steel workers, boiler makers, etc in Meigs County. Just because Meigs County won't be able to supply all the manpower needs does not mean this is not a great economic boost for the county.

They're really getting desperate to stop this plant. It would not surprise anyone if they resorted to more drastic / direct action. That would be a mistake.

One more thing. It's nice to finally see our State Representative Debbie Phillips start weighing in on this. I guess late is better than never. It must be awful being an EnviroNazi at heart and having to support coal. You've come a long way baby, er Debbie from your Walmart protesting days.

EnviroNazi propoganda explained

The Pomeroy Daily Sentinel story

The EnviroNazis are definitely persistent.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. "
Joseph Goebbels.

Strange how our EnviroNazis and the German National Socialists think a lot alike.

"An amendment to the state worker’s compensation budget which could significantly reduce construction costs for the proposed American Municipal Power Generating Station is being call “another unfair Ohio perk for coal” by the Sierra Club."

Yep, that's the last thing we want to do is make it easier for employers to do business in Ohio!

"The amendment, supported by Ohio Sen. Jimmy Stewart (R-Albany), is said to save AMP-Ohio $20-25 million on construction costs by allowing the company to apply for self-insured status with the Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation."

Good job Sen. Stewart. It's not rocket science, if we can help a company reduce costs associated with doing business in Ohio, the greater chance they'll employ Ohioans.

"said Nachy Kanfer, with Sierra Club’s ‘Beyond Coal Campaign’ in Ohio. “The Governor should use a line-item veto on this short-sighted subsidy."

The Sierra Club only pretends to care about Meigs county residents when they can twist an argument in their favor. They don't care if you're unemployed.

"The Sierra Club also said in its statement “this development raises new doubts regarding AMP-Ohio’s commitment to its workers;"

Oh yes, that's what it means. AMP doesn't care for it's workers because it's financially capable of self insurance. Remember, these people are not really brain dead. They want to stop all coal, including clean coal technology. They'll do and say anything to stop it.

"Temporary housing would only be needed if AMP-Ohio intended to hire large numbers of workers from outside the local area of the plant. The unemployment rate for Meigs County was 14.1 percent in May.”"

Um, if Meigs county can't supply all the steel workers, pipe fitters, equipment operators, etc, etc....AMP should not build the plant in Meigs county because all the labor won't come from Meigs? Is there some new requirement where one has to work in the county they reside?

"The unemployment rate for Meigs County was 14.1 percent in May.”"

Yes, and the EnviroNazis want to keep it that way.

Zach Space votes for largest tax increase in US history

What is he thinking? He votes for this EnviroNazi, job killing, rate hiking bill....

He really must not want to be re-elected.

His district is in the heart of Ohio coal country and he votes to kill coal mining and the jobs that go with it. Is the UMW listening?

Not only did he vote to kill coal jobs, he also voted to raise your electric bill, your gas bill.

Why do I call it a tax? Because it is government (idiocy) induced rate increases. Just when the economy needs a boost, Obama and Space slap it back down by increasing costs on businesses...which mean higher prices and less jobs for you.

Here's what the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation said about this bill:

"When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill's restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035.

Note also that the CBO analysis is an average for the country as a whole. It doesn't take into account the fact that certain regions and populations will be more severely hit than others -- manufacturing states more than service states; coal producing states more than states that rely on hydro or natural gas. Low-income Americans, who devote more of their disposable income to energy, have more to lose than high-income families."

Link to rest of this story here.

This is what Congressman Zach Space voted for!

Here's the alternative to anti-American Zach Space: Jeanette Moll

Zack Space not sure on cap and trade

How can one be unsure if he'd vote to put many in his own district out of work?
How can one be unsure if he'd vote to:

1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion
2. Destroy an average of 1-3 million jobs, every year
3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation
4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent
5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
6. Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500 annually
7. Increase the federal debt by 26 percent, which is $29,150 per person

From Heritage Foundation. May 18, 2009.


He voted for this bill in committee:

Vote by Ohio Reps. Space, Sutton for Waxman-Markey Bill Disappointing in Light of Ohio's Economy

Fascist's Greed

Great comments about the "energy" bill being bantered about in Congress. As far as I know, Zack Space still can't make up his mind about this massive job killing bill. Previous post here.

The Intelligencer, Wheeling News - Register story. (don't you love it when newspapers try to keep all the names of those papers they've bought in the past in their new name? I'll bet they use a lot of ink trying to put all the names on their top fold.)

Comments from oldsteelmaker:

"Cap and trade will guarantee that blast furnace will never run again. It will also destroy Mountain State Coke. One ton of coke makes three and a half tons of carbon dioxide. Since the proposed "fee" will be more than the profit on the steel made, no one will make steel here anymore. If you have no blast furnaces, who needs coke?

Despite all the claims, no one has shown a cause-and-effect relationship between human generated carbon dioxide and climate conditions. There's a lot of handwaving and smoke and mirrors, but the recent data shows distinctly different results compared to the models. If it's supposed to be getting warmer, why is the average temp dropping? We did not see the peak temps get near the records in the 1930's, and they are going down.

So why is this happening? Pelosi's husband was a big investor in Boone Pickens' wind farm venture. She wants to see that make money. Gore will make millions trading the credits.

Greed."

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Two stories about stone age EnviroNazis trying to keep us unemployed

From the Pomeroy Daily Sentinel:
Thunder rolls at AMP meeting

AMP reacts to latest hearing

I still here AMP and UMW folks talking like if you just compromise a little, like talking about wind and solar, that the EnviroNazis will see that coal is not the only energy being used for electricity by AMP, then lighten up.

Well, how many times do we need to remind folks, the EnviroNazis don't care about clean coal, they want NO coal. They don't care about you being unemployed, they don't care that coal is cheap and makes inexpensive electricity.

These are National Socialists and want control. They don't care one bit about us locally. They want to stop progress, period. Then when energy has to be rationed (like they want to do with health care BTW), they will be the ones telling us who gets the energy and how to use it,...."responsibly" you know.

Great editorial exposing EnviroNazis

The Right Stuff: Sustaining jobs more important than sustaining planet

OU Post Columnist writes about EnviroNazis.