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GrateWire » Tag: death by exposure - Recent Posts http://gratewire.com/tags/death-by-exposure News & Opinion - Grated Fresh Daily en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://gratewire.com/search.php Loyal American on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-4899 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:16:02 +0000 Loyal American 4899@http://gratewire.com/ WE NEED MORE POWER PLANTS AND DRILL FOR OIL ASAP...CREATING JOBS! Anonymous on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-4270 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:06:47 +0000 Anonymous 4270@http://gratewire.com/ I don't mind nuclear power. BUT PLEASE be logical on where the plants are located. Not in earthquake prone areas or places like that. Things get built where they don't need to be for political reasons like a bridge to nowhere. A nuclear power plant is NOT a bridge. SheShe on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3942 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:44:34 +0000 SheShe 3942@http://gratewire.com/ We really have too much data at our feet to be presenting half truths! RobinHoodlum on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3937 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:14:01 +0000 RobinHoodlum 3937@http://gratewire.com/ 2/10 President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion US in loan guarantees on Tuesday to help build the first U.S. nuclear power plants in nearly three decades, a move he says "is only the beginning." The announcement is expected to be the first of several, as it is anticipated that Obama's budget for the coming year will add $36 billion in new federal loan guarantees for nuclear facilities — on top of $18.5 billion already budgeted but not spent. Read more: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/16/obama-nuclear-loan.html#ixzz19zOuoGqQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/16/obama-nuclear-loan.html#ixzz19zOuoGqQ</a> Roxiebell on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3923 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:48:47 +0000 Roxiebell 3923@http://gratewire.com/ DRILL Baby DRILL!!! And we need to build some Nuclear plants around the country. I'm watching snow fall from my Las Vegas home kitchen window. Anonymous on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3906 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:38:14 +0000 Anonymous 3906@http://gratewire.com/ And, WE BETTER PRAY PRAY PRAY PRAY PRAY that the U.S. dollar STAYS the global exchange currency. WE- THE PEOPLE - get a HUGE price break with oil all over the world is traded in American dollars. It is part of the reason WHY we don't pay as much at the gas pump as Europe does. IF, oil is traded in OTHER THAN the American Dollar - thanks to Obama our dollar is SO WEAKENED and TRASHED compared to other currency, IF Americans had to buy oil in Euros or the Australian dollar,etc, EVERYTHING WE BUY from the price of a gallon a gasoline for our car to the price of agallon of milk (Had to be trucked to the market with oil and kept cold with oil) will SKY ROCKET. THAT WILL CRUSH OUR ECONOMY and very possibly doom our country. It is WHY we need to get our spending under control NOW. Anonymous on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3903 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:33:18 +0000 Anonymous 3903@http://gratewire.com/ The whole article is ABOUT OBAMA bring that HIGH COST OF FUEL HERE with the EPA global warming regulations! Our ELDERLY will soon be doing what the dumb Brits are doing. Roxiebell on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3895 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:58:40 +0000 Roxiebell 3895@http://gratewire.com/ Ms Normal, the point is the UK is proceeding to attempt to meet its climate change & "renewable" energy goals according to the Enviro-devil NUTJOBS at whatever cost. even human life, There is not enough "affordabe" energy (oil, coal, nuclear) being produced in England while the British Governement spends a TON of tax payer money on "alternative" energy sources, so INDEED it is the Governments fault, its their policy that is forcing the Global Warming crap on their citizens. Thats what Obama, libs, & the Enviro-devils want to do here in the USA and YEAH people will die here in the USA if we don't put and END to the GW murderous madness. The Green and extremely inhumane MEAN bunch forced "plastic" bags on us decades ago and now "oops" they are a danger to our enviroment and now they want to outlaw them. We still can't use "paper" off course, they want to force the bacteria ridden cloth bags on us. The same Green and extremely unhumane MEAN bunch forced the production of Ethanol on us and now, "oops" again, its found that its actually WORSE for the enviroment then oil but the diehard (the ones invested in carbon credit companies) WILL NOT listen to their minimally "sane' enviro-buddies to STOP wasting $$ on it. These Green Creeps don't know what the hell they're doing but are extremely dangerous and lethal. There is NO alternative fuel that is viable, other then nuclear but they ban that as well, and if there ever is another source the GW crazy buzzards sure won't find it. They're all whacked out and lethal NUTJOBS! Thats what the article is about. England is going WHACKO for the GW scam and Brits are dying!!! Lets not forget the MILLIONS who die in Africa with a child dying every 30-45 minutes of malaria because of the worldwide ban on DDT. And that mercury laden lightbulb being forced on us where if you break one you need a frigging HASMAT team to clean it up. EPA, Global Warming, Enviromentalists all MADNESS that needs to be DESTROYED. Ms Normal on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3885 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:24:22 +0000 Ms Normal 3885@http://gratewire.com/ Samual-- you quoted, "The saddest parts of the below article "To stay warm, thousands of elderly are using travel passes to ride buses all day, while others seek refuge in libraries and shopping centers" "28,000 died of cold" Well, that is in the UK. Not the US. Not to say people in the US aren't cold and having a hard time keeping up with our fuel bills, if we are lucky enough to have a home at all. The government isn't to blame though, especially because of new EPA standards and renewable energy ideads that aren't even being brought into action yet. But that article is not well written or understandable at all, and I am not so sure the canadafreesource is even a reliable source of truth reporting that it claims to be. Just my take on what few articles I looked at there, but gees, I've seen articles written more factual, flowing and comprehensible by 4th graders. Just my 2 cents. Anonymous on "Driving US families into fuel poverty" http://gratewire.com/topic/driving-us-families-into-fuel-poverty#post-3877 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:23:15 +0000 Anonymous 3877@http://gratewire.com/ The saddest parts of the below article "To stay warm, thousands of elderly are using travel passes to ride buses all day, while others seek refuge in libraries and shopping centers" "28,000 died of cold" ___________________________________________- <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31694" rel="nofollow">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31694</a> Driving US families into fuel poverty The Obama Administration still hasn’t gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2. The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that will lock up additional millions of acres and more billions of dollars of American energy. Their goal is to end the hydrocarbon and nuclear era in America – and force us to convert to “renewable” energy. Contrary to clear voter mandates and consumer needs, they are using regulations and executive edicts to slash carbon dioxide emissions, impose “clean energy standards,” halt onshore and offshore drilling, and hobble the vehicles, electrical generating plants and factories that are the backbone of our nation’s economy, jobs and living standards. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims these actions are needed to ensure “environmental justice” for poor and minority families threatened by “manmade global warming.” Meanwhile, the United States and entire Northern Hemisphere are enduring yet another nasty winter, marked by early snow storms and record cold temperatures. Some scientists say Earth could be entering another prolonged period of cooler temperatures. Businesses, workers and families face “fuel poverty,” injustice, bankruptcy and worse at the hands of their government, if this regulatory power grab continues. The Congressional Research Service says average US households will pay almost $1000 this winter just for heat. That’s average: Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York. Northern states residents will pay double or triple that. Businesses, schools and hospitals will also be driven into fuel poverty. In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds shivered outside to apply for heating assistance from a welfare agency that may not have enough money for every family that needs help. Along the Canadian border, in St. Lawrence County, New York, over 8,000 households were approved for heating aid by cash-strapped local, county and state governments that wonder where the money will come from – while Albany has blocked drilling for shale gas that could fuel homes and power plants, and generate billions in revenue. Even worse, all this is before the Feds actually implement more of the job-killing, family-freezing CO2 limits and other plans they are contemplating. To see what’s in store for millions of American businesses and families, one need only look at the planet’s one country that is still actually and obstinately plowing ahead to meet its climate change and renewable energy goals, regardless of the costs. Across Great Britain, household energy bills could double by 2020, to $3,900 (£2,500) a year, market expert Mark Todd of EnergyHelpLine.com has warned. Gasoline prices are likewise climbing to unaffordable levels, and the majority of United Kingdom companies will see their natural gas and electricity prices skyrocket by 100% between 2012 and 2016 – on top of a carbon tax bill of “at least” $65,660 (£42,000) annually – according to the analytical firm Carbon Masters. Moreover, most of Britain’s older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That will increase the danger of widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy costs are much lower, and air pollution and carbon dioxide emission standards far less stringent. That will hardly improve England’s economy or global environmental quality. Far worse, more than 5.5 million households will be plunged into “fuel poverty” by early 2011 – forced to spend more than 10% of their family incomes on energy – National Energy Action and other charities said. That’s over one-fifth of all UK households and a huge increase from 4.5 million families in 2008. Most in these households are over age 60, but working families are also struggling to keep the heat on, as prices soar. Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 years of record keeping. Britain is on track to having its coldest December in a century. To stay warm, thousands of elderly are using travel passes to ride buses all day, while others seek refuge in libraries and shopping centers, the Sunday Express noted. Others are “putting their health at risk, in an attempt to keep costs down,” by bundling up and turning the heat down or off entirely, said Age UK Charity Director Michelle Mitchell. Now, amid the Christmas and New Year holiday, two million homes, schools and hospitals face fuel rationing. Some families could wait weeks before they can get their fuel oil tanks refilled, as more snow falls across Great Britain. Meanwhile, the British government has cut funding for its Warm Front heating assistance program from $470 million this year to $172 million in 2011, Consumer Focus campaigner Jonathan Stearn angrily noted. And because the winds barely blow during the coldest weather, Britain’s “shiny new green” turbines were able to supply only “one-500th of the exceptionally large demand” for electricity during the frigid weather of early December, Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson ruefully observed. That’s a tiny fraction of the wind turbines’ “rated capacity.” But it is a situation commonly faced with turbines on freezing Minnesota winter nights and sweltering Texas summer afternoons, when they average a measly 10% of the electricity output their subsidy-hungry backers say they are capable of. “Environmental justice” Is this what Lisa Jackson would call “environmental justice”? How do her actions, notions of “justice,” and government-driven energy price spikes square with a 2009 poll by Wilson Research Strategies? It found that 56% of blacks think politicians and bureaucrats setting climate change policy in Washington fail to consider economic and quality of life concerns in the black community. Fully 76% are unwilling to pay more than $50 a year more for electricity, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Northern US winters are far worse than even record-setters in Britain. Why would anyone want to impose costly and nightmarish energy and environmental policies on American families, rich or poor? The outgoing Congress nearly enacted a bill that would have provided a much needed congressional check on EPA actions. The Murkowski bill fell just short in a Senate dominated by partisan Democrats. The incoming Senate should be far more supportive of such legislation, especially in the face of EPA and other attempts to override the will of Congress and the American people. The Affordable Power Alliance will urge the new Congress to honor its constitutional duties and prevent the Obama administration from imposing excessive regulations inspired by extreme ideologies. The 112th Congress, including Democrats up for reelection in 2012, needs to heed the overwhelming public demand that America’s economy no longer be held hostage by an elitist environmental network – even if that network includes the President of the United States.