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When the cost of Electricity is much more than the priceSubmitted by BeyondLeft on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 20:09.
... eventually ... "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue tougher air-quality standards for ozone in a move that could affect dozens of Tennessee counties ..." "Gov. Bredesen just announced Yesterday, plans to create a comprehensive energy policy for Tennessee ... We, as a state, can focus on driving innovation." Better git as many of them glass electric thingies on your roof, as soon as possible. Looks like we shoulda left all that Oil & Coal alone, undisturbed, under the ground--the cost is gettin' kinda tremendous. Pssst ... that big brown smudge is still there, and it's still a growin.  ( categories: )
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I'm thinking of just letting my tank go dry and heating my house with candles. Seriously.
"I think it would be a good idea."
-Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Tougher air quality standards could hurt Knox Co. should say Tougher air quality standards could hurt Knox Co.
pocketbooks but will greatly benefit the health of residents.
Merely coincidental, it is, that TVA is raising their Electricity rates, at the same time they're installing brand new Pollution Control Systems on Three of their Coal-Fire Powered Electrical Plants (~$600 million), in order to avoid a lawsuit from the State of North Carolina's Attorney General.
TVA sets $597M emissions controls on coal plant near Smokies
Beware, oh brave Electrical Power user: This is just the first of many rate increases to come, for the EPA will soon grow larger teeth and sharper claws. It is a shame that after S. David Freeman's retirement, TVA has essentially ignored the soot and CO2 problems.
BL - Not out of ignorance, but more out of a zest for knowledge and understanding, can you elaborate further on the link between S. David Freeman's retirement and TVA's pollution problems?
Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._David_Freeman
Freeman rose to national prominence as head of the Tennessee Valley Authority before spending the next 30 years running the country's biggest municipal utility districts, including the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.php?catid=160&entry_id=1008
Kentucky and Tennessee cited for being among the biggest polluters of the nation's 359 power plants
http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/IRJCI/blogMay2005.htm
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