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You may have seen this opinion from Chris Gregoire in the Seattle Times yesterday. I don't have a problem with having goals of reducing pollution or reducing our dependence of foreign oil. The problem I have with the governor's plan, and others like hers, are that they are forced onto the public and they are trying to regulate carbon dioxide that has never been proven to be a pollutant.
Go to the Global Warming Petition Project and read their research on the issue of global warming. Bottom line of their report is that global temperatures vary over time and are correlated with sun activity.
Let's look at some of her proposals. I haven't read her plan, but am just taking them from her opinion.
What does this proposal do? Require coal-fired power plants operating in the state to eliminate emissions of greenhouse gases or be fully carbon neutral by no later than 2025. The answer add cost to your electric bill.
Who is going to pay for this one? Develop a "West Coast Green Highway" to accommodate fully electric, zero-emission vehicles and those powered by alternative fuels.
Seems to me her goals, much like Obama's is to make the cost of fossil fuels so high that we have no choice but to switch. With the economy we are facing why do they want to take more of our money? These plans are bad for our state and country.
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After our last little debate on this, I was thinking more about the cap and trade for power in our state and I started to think about where our electricity comes from.
I knew already that the majority of our power came from hydro electric and nuclear, so I did a little looking.
Turns out our state gets 75% of our power from hydro, about 10% from nuclear, about 7-10% coal and the rest from natural gas and wind.
Natural gas already runs very efficiently, so really you're talking about doing this cap and trade with less than 10% of the energy produced in our state.
I then went to the Seattle City Light website and found numbers about those who are Seattle City Light customers and where the power comes from. This can be found here: http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/light/FuelMix/
Coal and natural gas combined count for 1.22% of the electricity for those customers. That means that 98.78% of the power used by SCL customers is already zero emissions.
So, if you are an SCL customer, it won't effect your rates at all. Most of the coal power used is in South and SW Washington. So if you live down there, maybe you'll see an increase. But frankly, it's not going to effect your bill much if at all.
In fact, since Washington is an energy exporter, such cap and trade rules in other states may actually help our own economy. If it gets more expensive for other Western states to produce their own electricity, then they may decide to use our clean electricity instead. Thus improving our local economy.
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