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Robert Lipton of Lakewood writes:

Governor Ritter is going to save us from climate change by reducing Colorado co2 emissions while coal use in Europe is increasing by 72% due to the high price of oil, and China and India will build over 1000 new coal burning electricity plants in the next five years. Good Luck, holding back the tide Governor.

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I know how ditter can reduce the states co2 emissions and that is to start with him.

Still waiting for Dubya's plan.

If Ritter really wanted to do something about the energy situation. He would use that pen of his to get a wind farm set up along highway 93. Then he would also get Colorado a couple more nuke plants.

But that would only make sense and put money into the taxpayers pocket. Instead he supports the carbon offset purchase programs lead by the snakeoil salesman Al l shall save theplanet Gore.

Robert Lipton's letter is completely void of any facts. All he says about Ritter is that Ritter wants to reduce CO2 emissions. Not much different than what just about all industrialized nations say they want to do. I expect that Lipton would like to see more emissions spewed into the air. I presume he would like for
Governor Ritter to be the only chief executive on the planet to say the CO2 emissions are no problem. I say "presume" because, as I say, Lipton studiously avoids saying anything. He writes in a fact-free zone.

I realize that it is not customary to post facts on the forum, but I myself think that might be just a tad better than supported opinions and rants. So I'll post what Ritter's plan says about coal. Basically he says Colorado will continue to be a coal producing state; what he calls for is not no more coal plants but a joint effort by the coal industry and the government to find better ways of producing cleaner coal. Of course, the coal industry is already doing that. Lipton apparently doesn't think we should be looking for ways to produce cleaner coal.

"4. Clean Coal
There are an estimated 9.76 billion tons of recoverable
coal reserves remaining in Colorado. In the last
five years, the state’s active coalmines produced more
coal than ever before. The coal industry employs
more than 2,000 people and generates about $50
million in annual lease royalties and mineral
severance taxes for state and local governments.
Colorado is and will remain a coal-producing state.
While we need to diversify our resource mix by
integrating renewable energy resources, coal will
remain an important part of our energy portfolio.
But we must recognize that current methods of
burning coal are responsible for significant emissions
of CO2 into the atmosphere.
That means we need to pursue opportunities to
mitigate the emission of CO2. This climate action plan
anticipates the development of proven advanced coal
burning technologies within 10 years. Currently, the
most promising of those technologies is Integrated
Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) generation
plants combined with Carbon Capture and
Sequestration (CCS) applications.
However, it is clear that deployment of this
technology in Colorado and across the country faces
significant obstacles. Private capital markets are
reluctant to invest large sums in a technology that
they perceive as untested, especially since there are
no national or state regulations for managing and
storing CO2 in the ground."

"An initial survey by the Colorado Geological Survey
under a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy
to the Southwest Partnership for CO2 Sequestration
indicates that the geologic repositories near existing
power plants could sequester the carbon produced by
those plants over the next several hundred years."

"That is why the Western Governors’ Association
and Governor Ritter consistently have called on
the Congress and the President to dramatically
accelerate federal investments in these technologies.
The Colorado congressional delegation has also
been strongly supportive of such research and
development funding."

What happened to the Ice Age that we were all so concerned about in the 70s?

Face it. The earth is constantly changing. How many ice ages were there? Seems to me that global warming was responsible for ending them.

Yes, we should all do our part to conserve. But politicizing the issue only benefits the politicians.

Since water vapor represents 95% of all greenhouse gases, does Ritter plan to blow up the Chatfield, Cherry Creek and Aurora res and then drain and cement Sloan Lake? Any plans for the Pacific Ocean, gov.?

And since his new budget is already in Chapter II and requires tax hikes to bail it out, why not slap us with another needed tax hike--$2 p/g at the pump. That should really fix things, gov.

Ritter is going to tax your farts.

Farts are methane gas, fart in a container that can save that gas and use it in your car. No emitions.

just another democrat raising taxes or in plain english "stealing our money"

Truth

Now that you bored us with Al Gores phony website facts what's Ritter Going to do about Europe and China's so-called conrtibution to "Global warming"?
Do us a favor and change your name to "Half" Truth.

It is with some regret I violate the subject matter; however, a significant event is on the horizon:

W. Bush must notice the chaos resulting from a President declaring an event of significant nature leading to emergency rule:

So we call on all "Peace Pledge" Democrats to honor their pledges by voting NO.
A new study by Democrats themselves puts the economic cost of the Iraq occupation at $1.6 TRILLION, or $21,000 per family. Every single penny has been wasted - not to mention the human cost to Americans and Iraqis and global hatred of the USA.
Why would Democrats want to give Bush one penny more?
All Congress has to do is Just Say No and refuse to provide any new funds, and tell Bush to use existing funds to bring all our troops safely home. Bush has plenty of money - besides all previous Iraq funds, Bush just signed a Pentagon bill with a $40 billion increase.
Tell your Representatives: No More Funds for Iraq
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/124
Deliver the same message on the phone: 202-224-3121
And send a message Democrats cannot ignore by joining the Democratic Donor Strike against the DCCC and DSCC.
http://democrats.com/donor-strike-2007

Hank's prodigious gut must've told him his facts were right:

"Since water vapor represents 95% of all greenhouse gases..."

Sorry Hank, but the hack propagandist you're suckling for your warm milk of denial has his/her/it's facts wrong.

Only a rube would parrot such nonsense. In fact, water vapor accounts for only about 50% of the greenhouse effect, cloud-cover accounts for around 25% and the rest is caused by CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Back to scrawling-board ya simp.

Don't forget to tell them to vote "no" on illegal immigrants, welfare recipients, and all the other unconstitutional wastes that the federal government has no constitutional authority.

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