Shock and Awe or Shuck and Jive and the Kitchen Sunk- Wow, what a spectacle the Pleasuredome in St. Paul turned out to be. Rudy Giuliani leading the audience in mantras of “drill, baby, drill” while speaking afloat on imagery of the Hudson River? Rudy walking on water? Convention organizers should have just superimposed oil derricks onto the image of the Hudson with NYC in the background, as this was their stated energy goal all evening. Governor Palinocrity in her speech continued to keep all things energy in the fossil fuel category, “offshore drilling, nuclear (well this is one clean idea, with lots of waste), clean-coal” (really?) only as a small footnote is wind & solar mentioned. Think about it, this convention did nothing to really address new clean technologies as being the future. Additionally, Palinocrity even made the bold statement that when the McShame ticket arrives in Washington (hasn’t one of them lived there for 30 years?) they would pass an energy policy for the future. If this is the case, then why was the Senator at the top of the ticket absent from 8 votes on the investment tax credit extension for clean energy investments? Think about it, have you ever witnessed a more shameless attempt of saying one thing and doing another. At times I am naïve, as one must realize shameless is the key adjective that defines one a politician.
New York Wind- In New York State, the Public Service Commission granted permission, in a unanimous vote to allow Spanish energy company Iberdrola, S.A. to acquire Energy East which has operations in 5 states. Iberdrola claims to want to invest as much as $2 billion in wind turbines across upstate New York. Some of the commissions own regulators were opposed due to putting too much energy production in one company’s hands. But the commission still voted for the merger based on Iberdrola obeying strict rules that would mitigate any potential price manipulation. This plan would double New York’s wind power output to 2000 megawatts in a few years time.
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