“We’re not a large utility, so we were only able to send up two or three crews,” Glenn Cunningham, a business continuity coordinator with Diverse Power in LaGrange, Georgia, said in a phone interview.The unions should lose the northern corridor as well.
“They worked in Maryland, and they went up to New York, and when they got up there it was, ‘out come the union papers.’” “And our guys were like, ‘Hey, we’re not joining nothing. We came up to help, but if you don’t want it, that’s fine.’ So they turned around and drove all the way back here to Georgia.”
Friday, November 2, 2012
There’s more: Georgia power crew turned away from Sandy-stricken New York for refusing to join union
And the unions have lost the South. The Georgia workers walked away...
Stranded New Yorker: "People Are Defecating in the Hallways"
Gosh! What a mess!
But I remember some of the hyperbole during hurricane Katrina (is that the one that caused the New Orleans flooding?) that turned out to be untrue. But, hey, you never know.
But I remember some of the hyperbole during hurricane Katrina (is that the one that caused the New Orleans flooding?) that turned out to be untrue. But, hey, you never know.
Chemicals Industry Exploding In The U.S. As Cheap Natural Gas Sends Stocks Near Multi-Year Highs
I talked about this about a year ago in August. In fact, I said that natural gas *IS* the Next Big Thing. The basic feedstock for the chemicals industry in the USA is natural gas. When the price topped out, many of the plants here closed up. But now they are all talking expansion.
The U.S. is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the chemicals market with the emergence of shale gas. Years ago, the U.S. appeared as a market in decline, given it didn’t have comparative advantages in terms of costs or demand, which had shifted to China and Asia. “The U.S. has about 20 to 30 years to benefit from this,” said Ticktin.
And investors can get a cut of the action. Years ago, major chemical companies like Du Pont and Dow Chemical began to move their operations overseas. But today, companies with access to feed stocks that are associated with the production of natural gas, such as propane and ethane, will see a boost in their performance. Major oil and gas companies like Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell are well positioned to benefit.
Companies in the coatings and paints business will also do well, according to Ticktin. Sherwin-Williams and PPG, for example, are trading near their 52-week highs, while Du Pont and Dow Chemical are on their way back.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
BONO SEES THE LIGHT, APPLAUDS CAPITALISM
Wow! Pretty amazing!
[Bono] said it had been “a humbling thing for me” to realize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurialism in philanthropy, particularly as someone who “got into this as a righteous anger activist with all the cliches.”
“Job creators and innovators are just the key, and aid is just a bridge,” he told an audience of 200 leading technology entrepreneurs and investors at the F.ounders tech conference in Dublin. “We see it as startup money, investment in new countries. A humbling thing was to learn the role of commerce.”
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi Blasts Al Gore’s Claims That Global Warming Caused Hurricane Sandy as “Stunningly Ignorant or Stunningly Deceptive”
Yep, it is. But he did not address the issue of rising sea levels in the area. But really, it's a side issue since the average rise in sea levels over the past 100 years has only been 11 inches. See my previous post.
Other than people moving farther inland there is practically nothing we can do to mitigate any global warming that may be occurring. It's just a cycle that must play itself out.
Other than people moving farther inland there is practically nothing we can do to mitigate any global warming that may be occurring. It's just a cycle that must play itself out.
For Years, Warnings That It Could Happen Here
Oh yeah. Global warming. Right. Whatever. I love the way they write this. Like they are pounding the tale as they speak.
The important feature is to notice the last line. 0.91 feet is just under 11 inches in one hundred years.
Now, that isn't to say New York doesn't have a problem. But it's not a problem brought on by Man. And New York really should do something since they've been putting this off for 100 years. But to bring up Global Warming (what they are doing is blaming anthropogenic Global Warming, I should clarify) is just opportunistic and disgusting.
For nearly a decade, scientists have told city and state officials that New York faces certain peril: rising sea levels, more frequent flooding and extreme weather patterns. The alarm bells grew louder after Tropical Storm Irene last year, when the city shut down its subway system and water rushed into the Rockaways and Lower Manhattan.But what about this rising sea level? To be honest, I don't know how you measure with any accuracy sea levels but people do it. Here is a graph of the rising sea level at The Battery in New York State :
The important feature is to notice the last line. 0.91 feet is just under 11 inches in one hundred years.
Now, that isn't to say New York doesn't have a problem. But it's not a problem brought on by Man. And New York really should do something since they've been putting this off for 100 years. But to bring up Global Warming (what they are doing is blaming anthropogenic Global Warming, I should clarify) is just opportunistic and disgusting.
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