Comments on: New Jersey Pulling Out of RGGI? Not Yet, but Maybe.. (& Clear Reasons Why It Shouldn’t)

By: Grey1234fox

Grey1234fox — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:48:00 +0000

Zshanan3, I join Sixer04fan in reading your freshman highschool rant. I am a conservative Republican but also developing clean energy facilities. Perhaps if your Democratic talking points which you adhere to would explain why the current administration seems to prevent more clean energy than they approve. It takes as long to obtain approval for a non-dam hydroelectric project as it does for a fish blocking physical dam, it believes that a coal fired power plant being converted to burn wood pellet produces more emissions than the coal plant did originally. Plus, we have some 6,000 mw of coal fired power plants being shut down, hard to replace those plants quickly, I guess we burn candles in the future.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:12:00 +0000

Bill, thanks for the link. Greatly appreciated!

By: Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:00 +0000

SixerO4fan: You may not like the tone of Zach’s comment, but the content is, unfortunately, true. The Republican Party actually used to have some pretty amazing environmentalists. John Chafee comes to mind. One of the only real stalwarts still standing is William Reilly. The GOP has pretty much sold out to the fossil fuel special interests (often spelled K.O.C.H. these days) and to its truly reactionary right wing. (see “Backlash” here: http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/09/19/backlash/)

Zach: Great article, “The Political History of Cap and Trade,” here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/ecocenter/air/Presence-of-Mind-Blue-Sky-Thinking.html The GOP didn’t invent cap-and-trade but they brought it into flower during the G.H.W. Bush administration. It has been a huge success in curtailing acid rain. It will continue to work and to improve for RGGI (with our without NJ), the EU, and now California.

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Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:38:56 +0000

[…] New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, one of a Republican party’s many bigoted liars (who says he is compelling renewable appetite though is, in fact, doing all he can to quarrel a growth), recently announced that he was pulling a state out of a Northeast’s meridian change and purify appetite cap-and-trade program, a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Well, it turns out, Governor Christie might not have a energy to do so soon… though it’s going to be……Read the Full Article at: http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/29/new-jersey-pulling-out-of-rggi-not-yet-clear-reasons-why-it-shou… […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:31:00 +0000

What we’re watching is Republican leaders taking a very anti-environmental turn. Even the few, like Romney, who admit climate change is happening are likely to do little to nothing to address the problem, but declare that we have to take care of “business” first and deal with climate change later.

This next election is going to be critical in terms of whether we move ourselves off of fossil fuels or sentence ourselves to several more years of having the fossil fuel industry control our government.

I suspect, Sixer04fan, that you are finding yourself in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between clean technology and supporting your chosen political party.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:09:00 +0000

Sorry, Sixer04fan, but that is the gist I’m trying to present. Because that is the case.

On RGGI in NJ, RGGI is an economic driver (see the above). Christie is trying to kill it despite that & despite NJ’s situation.

Christie says he’s promoting Renewable Energy & set a RE target that’s lower than what his predecessor set, after saying that his predecessor didn’t do enough for RE.

I’m sorry, I follow the politics AND policy closely, and the Republican leaders of today are driving the country into the ground. Even top aids & officials from Reagan and Bush administrations are shaming them for it.

By: Sixer04fan

Sixer04fan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:27:00 +0000

“…one of the Republican party’s many two-faced liars…” If you want to be taken seriously as a writer, don’t make yourself out to be such a one-sided, closed-minded, overly subjective, anti-Republican. There are way too many articles on this where you resort to petty name calling and cheap shots towards Republicans, and you show literally no focus on writing intellectual, objective, informative articles. There are so many factors involved in Christie’s decision to reduce it’s REC program that you are either too ignorant or too uneducated to understand. Do you have any idea what the state of NJ’s budget is? Or how a true economic model cannot rest on the laurels of insignificant government incentives?

As an Energy Engineer, I am an avid follower of this site. I am very interested in the new technologies and policy news that you report… But sometimes when you start trying to write about politics, you portray yourself as if you’re a high school kid going on a rant about some teacher that gave you detention. “The big bad Republicans are destroying the country!” That’s basically the gist I get from reading your columns more often than not. It’s just embarrassing writing for an adult that is running a website.