Maryland’s Energy Future Isn’t Looking Good
I highlighted before how Governor Martin O’Malley says one thing, but his actions are in the exact opposite. In the mindset of Monday’s post about renewable energy sources, and the Governor’s continued attempt to force BGE to maintain price caps until after he is re-elected, let’s look at some of Governor O’Malley’s rhetoric.
A Washington Post article where O’Malley spoke to legislators and told them that “lawmakers need to be cognizant of rolling “brownouts” that have been forecast in Maryland within a few years.” Wow… rolling brownouts are a serious thing so we better build some more power plants right?
From the Governor’s proposal for re-regulation, the policy document states, “New Generation in Maryland will help reduce congestion and capacity prices for all Maryland Consumers. The PSC reports that the average household in Maryland is paying over $200 per year in capacity costs.” Reducing electricity bills by $200 a year might actually help O’Malley with that campaign promise to lower electricity costs.
During his speech at the Local Legislator Summer Camp known as MACo, the Carroll County Times stated that he told them “the complexity of the state’s current challenge requires pursuing a number of different paths including partnering with local governments to create “peaking plants” that can feed the power grid when electricity demand is at its highest, working toward large-scale commercial renewable energy projects and providing energy assistance to low-income households.”
Governor Martin O’Malley has had only one failure in pushing legislation through the legislature and that is when it comes to re-regulating the energy market. He was able to push through energy reforms that increased cost, he was able to push tax reforms that increased taxes, and he’s been able to make it virtually impossible to use the Death Penalty in Maryland, but he can’t get a bill through to partially re-regulate the energy market.
But through words, O’Malley has made it clear that we need more energy generation in Maryland because we are facing rolling brown outs in our future if we do not. However, his actions are quite contrary to his concern.
For instance, his global warming legislation has made it nearly impossible for a coal or even natural gas plan to be built in Maryland. Despite the fact that currently 60% of Maryland energy comes from coal, it is one of the cheapest forms of energy, and Maryland has hundreds of millions of tons of coal in the Appalachian Mountains that aren’t being used available, Coal is off limits. Natural gas, another cheap form of energy production, has also been deemed unacceptable by the Public Service Commission.
Another area where Governor Martin O’Malley is stifling new energy production is by repealing the property tax exemption for electricity generation in Maryland. A huge tax incentive that allowed Maryland to compete with other states in luring energy production, including his coveted RENEWABLE energy sources, is now gone because he doesn’t know how to manage a budget.
And then there is the stopping of the EDF/Constellation merger which would give the new company the necessary resources to build a nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs that will be used just to MAINTAIN the current energy supply since one reactor is reaching the end of its life.
Governor Martin O’Malley, a man so unconcerned with your energy bills or the environment that he increased taxes on renewable energy production, is not living up to the reality in action as someone standing up for ratepayers, the environment, or your family.
Attention all would-be Admirals: nautical lingo has ships moored with “lines” not “ropes.” I believe that most recruits are acquainted with that fact in Boot Camp and/or plebe year at the Academy.
Tommy, Please grow up sometime will you? In the near future?
A new energy term; Carbon Vault
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/29/canada-boreal-forest-carbon-vault
Turn up the thermostat,
Among them, the PSC orders the company to pay out $110.5 million in rate credits to BGE customers. That will provide about a $100 credit for each BGE residential customer. The PSC also ordered that credit to be implemented before the end of March 2010, to help offset this winter’s heating bills.
http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/story.aspx?articleid=38811&zoneid=40
Md Taxpayer: I did grow up. It resulted in my becoming a truthful man.
I remember when I was in the Navy we used to park our airplane boats up next to the giant dock. All of us boat workers would jump down and tie the boat to one of those big metal drums with a granny knot. Inevitably one of us would be late because we made sure we went to the bathroom first. While we were on the ground, the boat driver would remain behind. Usually on the bed in his room.
…Good times in that Navy. Eventually I was promoted to Super Admiral shortly before I retired (at age 30).
Well, in the last few days that I’ve been gone, I drank the Kool-aid. I am now fully supportive of our beloved Governor, rockin’ Martin O’Malley.
However, to continue receiving my support, he must do two things to prove himself faithful to the progressive agenda which he, and the president that he did not endorse in the primaries, worship.
1) Many Marylanders that do not get their energy from BGE are poor. The $100 “rebate” potentially designated for each BGE residential customer should be redistributed such that those that get their energy from other providers receive thier fare share of relief.
2) Martin O’Malley should ensure that Maryland assumes some of the debt from states that have bond ratings lower than AAA. It is only fair to equally distribute the debt, especially by taking on the debt from other progressive states like California, so that all states can be equal when it comes to their bond ratings.
Tommy, I guess all that “hemp” you smoked in the 60s and in the 70s gave you real nightmares about Rope, imagine that? So to stop the buzzes in your mind, you now see Lines?????, so you don’t see the Rope smoking anymore, thats funny, I guess? you have been away or off line? for 2 weeks? Now. Whats even more funny, is I thought we stopped personal attacks? When I came down to see you, and you where not home. Offered excuses, my internet was down, not your a clown? No lets man up, Man that types nothing here but about me, worst you live in delaware, retired olden, getting stupid with nothing to do ……Its O malley watch and you offer no sense ever on here……..So get 10,000.00 cash out of your bank on Monday, and lets meet at the main gate at the Naval Academy at say 10am……I produce who I am with Marine guards, you show up, I validate who I am ,and you lose 10,000.00, oh me?lose no chance,since I have the Green ID card, that gets the Salute, and validates my presence in your little worldly internet trips on here. When, I leave , will head home via my travel agent, hand her your cash ask her to send me some nice trips for me and the wife you paid for because of your mouth…..Show Time Tommy, put up or shut up…….but just remember 1 thing, why are you here?living in delaware.posting nothing! Come on Tommy , I need that easy 10K………its will be fun…….for me, please show up!bring your college classmate that made it! ah for that 10K you will get a meal a tour, and a memory of your life. Plus your wife beating the hell out of you for being so stupid……….when you get home for losing 10,000.00 cash! Tommy come=into my Air Space! or Stop, your a old man that did well cares about America, gets his checks, lives on fixed income and has a wonderful family. Why do you wake up and hate??? Blog? Type personal attacks……you dying? Want honest be at the gate! I am coming to meet 7 of my former junior officers, now all Commanders and 3 select Captains, on Staff! That I produced, and have lunch, I make them laugh,tell them they are Idiots, and they laugh and still say Sir, Thank You…we all laugh , and tell me now stories and tall tales, because they are the Leaders of the Navy! and know what a knot and rope is……..and the 100,000 lifes they are committed to in serving the Navy!…Tommy bring the Money! I will be there! or Shut up and type something stupid!
Tommy, please offer your classics or words….?….Yes or No? You showing up? or shutting up. Truthful, lets display that with money, where your mouth is. $10.000.00 Cash………..Funny I have found in life, a clown shuts up when there mouth runs faster than there Money.really is?????…Excuses………here they come from Tommy. A Fox smells his own hole, my mother told me. Tommy, please bring your mouth, your 10,000.00 to the Academy, and hand me that money…….or whoops I hand you mine……no chance of losing!………are you a man or a mouse?????? I can put my money where my mouth is. I will donate your 10,000.00, you lose to the up keep of the Vietnam Veterans Wall in Wash Dc, with your name on the donation, so you can have a tax break…….how nice of me.
Indy stop your stupidity…….you have profiled down to a bowl at Nachoes with your kids enjoying them, enjoy!
Md. Taxpayer: You NEVER came anywhere near my home. Your “spies” must have given you bogus info. You Sir may be many things but you are not a man with any amount of Naval Service. Yesterday you mentioned your training as a “profiler.” What’s next, your own TV show? You don’t know a ship from a bottle of rum! I may not be wealthy, but I am a man who speaks the truth. Get back in your bathtub and play with your own $10,000.00.
Tommy, then shut up. Your are nothing more than a old man with a mouth , My Naval Service of 31 years, now is i you dishonor. You where called on your mouth, why would a man of truth? run? and hide as the coward. I was going to have the Maryland Gazzette there to take your picture with me and you handing me the money……ah Thank you Indy for your kind words, Tommy, there was a life after the Navy, for me, on the nice easy 6+ figures, I did for some years, in my Spec Op days, I was trained at Quantico. While your smoking that hemp, I also had to graduate Nuclear Power School, as a young 0-6, prior to accepting command of a Nuclear Bird Farm, not a easy task to get another degree at 41 years old. Tommy, stop eating Hatfield Scrapple, its effecting your mind, eat just RAPA…. see you at the gate with when you can put your money where your mouth is……………best , your just a little coward typing you sad life…………Its Omalley watch talk about him………..Please do show up!
Tommy…………..Well 2 times NOW your ejuculated that you speak the Truth…….then why is such a man of truth?? so afraid??? to meet me and truth you accuse me of not telling??????????? You call me a Liar………I say show the hell up Tommy, man that accuses, ok your not rich lets make it 5,000.00 you win!!!! or certainly will lose. But want honor, show up with the mouth you type, and lets see whom has diginity and honor………I will not ever diginify ever answers to you ever again, you enjoyment has become me, and attacks. Time you go play with yourself and a glass of old Port wine……..Cowards, just type never show up!
Md Taxpayer: Sadly,I think that you actually believe your own nonsense. I will pray for you and your eventual return to reality.
MB,
I view that $100 “rebate” to be something like the Cash 4 Clunkers program.
A blip on the financial radar screen that helps but a few - temporarily.
Then it is gone.
Daniel: Then, we’ll replace it with this:
Martin O’Malley (and his progressive ilk) should outsource all state jobs, which are capable of being outsourced, to states with higher unemployment rates until the rates are equal.
But why stop there? Once we’ve achieved balance in the country, we’ll start doing this on a global scale.
Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703363704574503631430926354.html#printMode
AVCC:
Peggy Noonan is a hack. She is one of the cult of personality that believes Ronald Reagan was a saint. The president who subverted the constitution by selling missiles to Iran to fund his right wing terrorists in Nicaragua. We still have the $2.5 trillion that Reagan added to the national debt and we have yet to pay it off (for all those so called fiscal conservatives).
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
“$700 billion to $3 trillion” from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
The WSJ was and may still be a good paper (I don’t know if Murdoch has destroyed it yet), but its OP/ED page has long been a right wing cesspool - I think they are still blaming Clinton for everything.
AJ
Can you pardon me if I disagree with you without being nasty towards me?
I do believe Peggy Noonan hit a home run with this article. My opinion, doesn’t make it fact, however she put into words everything I have been thinking and feeling about my government in the last 4 years.
You see, I am fortunate to live with 3 generations. I listen, I absorb, I analogize each point of view.
We cannot continue, as a nation, to go down this road. I don’t care which President, nor party affiliation that managed to get us here, all I know is we have got to stop it.
Oh My, it didn’t work with Fox News, so now we will pick on ABC news,
Sincerely
President Obama
$160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That ‘Calculator Abuse’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/160000-per-stimulus-job-white-house-calls-that-calculator-abuse.html
I love this line from a blogger;
I used to think Glenn Beck was kinda looney and headed for a meltdown on national TV. The more I see of the Obama administration, the saner Glenn Beck looks.
AVVC: That’s just that crazy Jake Tapper. You know, the same one that dared to pester Robert Gibbs about the WH saying that Fox News is not a real news organization. Remember?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/todays-qs-for-os-wh-10202009.html
I guess that since I’ve decided to become a progressive, someone had to go in the other direction to maintain equilibrium in the universe.
MB
No, I didn’t know that, but you know what? I don’t care who reported on it, I like the fact he did.
I’ll go back to what Peggy Noonan wrote.
“Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice”.
MB
I see this every day when I’m out and about.
Mom’s, who use to shop during the day while their kids were in school, are now working, waiting tables, at Bob Evans.
Grocery stores are empty.
Shelves are never full like they once were.
Heck, even the highways I drive during the day look like a ghost town.
I don’t like what I am seeing out there.
You can count the people walking along Harbor Place on a sunny day.
I went to Rusty Scupper’s for lunch….empty.
Years ago one had to stand in line just to get a seat at the bar.
No matter how our politicians try to put lipstick on this pig, it’s still a pig.
My rant for the day.
Tommy, glad to see your going to show up!\\
Daniel, your right we will never see the 100.00, that Omalley said was 200.00 go figure in 1 day 200 becomes 100. Omalley Math!
IMBC, I think we are going to Win tommorrow…….I feel a 28 Ravens 24 Denver……..
All I know is on the back of my BGE bill there continues to be a $7.50 customer service charge each month.
For what? I don’t know, but it’s there because O’Malley, et.,al decided I couldn’t opt out of Ehrlich plan.
$7.50 x 12 = $90 buckaroos
AVCC:
Please explain how my post was nasty to you - I can’t understand any of my post being nasty.
I have no problem with you or Noonan having an opinion. I like to see people express how they feel. I find suspect people like Noonan who feel the need to project their feelings to a larger population by claiming they know how “Americans” feel or that they know that our leaders don’t even notice.
There is a difference between a politician who is elected by a constituency speaking for a larger group and a op/ed columnist speaking for a larger constituency. As much as it seems to pain alot of people here. President Obama speaks for America, not Peggy Noonan.
AVCC:
I respectfully don’t share your observations about the supermarket being a ghost town or there being less traffic on the roads. We just went to the supermarket for groceries and some last minute pumpkins. One supermarket was out of pumpkins, boths had as many cars in the parking lot as ever.
My commute to work is as busy as ever - the traffic picked back up at the end of summer and I have not noticed liger traffic, if anything the commute is worse due to the resurfacing of the roads I use.
I will admit that I have been more circumspect abut purchases since there is a distinct possibility that I could be layed off. But, when we are in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression, I should probably be even more careful than I am being.
Good luck to you, I hope you feel better about things soon.
Good luck getting a answer..AVCC, its a customer service charge, you answered your own question, the lights are on ! Glowing!
Just in case anyone missed this from the “working families” group SEIU
White House released a list of visitors this year and SEIU President Andy Stern topped the list with more than twenty trips since January.
http://www.seiu.org/blog.php
Just remember Stupid O’Malley told us that the sale tax increase was only a PENNY. Well, by the end of O’Malley’s first term he will have won for the “working families” a BGE rate reduction of 19 CENTS per day.
19 CENTS per day, now that is “Leadership that Works”
19 CENTS per day
spend it in good health……..
Dect ****, after he raised the Gasoline Tax, that will -5 cents a day! Easy!
RAISES the GAS TAX this next Session!
Mother Hubbard is posting a link about city crime by the clueless bleeding heart liberal Dan Rodricks because I want you all to know he IS the problem, not the solution. If he wanted to help these kids, he should report on all the programs that will make a difference in a kids life. There are no excuses anymore. Programs are plentiful. Good and caring people are out there dying to help.
You see, my kid works with 25 very poor city kids every week. He teaches them music. The program is free. All it takes is one concerned parent who love their kids more than they love their laziness.
But to read this article, one thinks people like me and my family does not care.
We care so much you can’t believe.
So to Danny Boy Rodricks I say;
BULLpuppies…God helps those who help themselves. Stop writing this kind of ****. Your stories are so old and outdated.
‘We want them to stop killing each other’
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.rodricks01nov01,0,7971581.column
AVCC
It is amazing that Rodricks can still draw a pay check, he is a failed “clown”. Just don’t read his columms or go yell at him at the bagel shop.
It looks like by Wednesday morning we will know if areas of this Nation will vote to begin to remove the Progressive Socialists from power. Elections in VA, NJ, 23rd district in NY, Annapolis and Atlanta, should grab the news.
Also, this Thursday is an important day in DC. A call to show up in DC and make your voices heard about Healthcare.
AVCC #69420 “You see, I am fortunate to live with 3 generations. I listen, I absorb, I analogize each point of view.”
To be fair, if they’re living with you, they probably share your exact political views (or at least very close). Especially your kid.
I’m not suggesting that their input isn’t valuable; it is. But it’s not exactly a representative sample of the population (be it of your town, county, city, state, etc) either.
Mother Hubbard, good story, and great mothering of your children! Well Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tommy, come on type somthing stupid now!
Its November the day that He11 freezes over and Stephanie(Child/chubster) Rollins Blake, becomes the Mayor of Baltimore.
Then next on Tap is a 6 cent raise in Maryland Gas Taxes……….OMalley, our Bridges, your Safety……………Old Mother Hubbard when you leaving on Vacation? I am busy running the Roads between Delaware, and the Magothy…Let me know….Hun, your still the best!
Dec D……….
I ,Made a great decision today even the wife stabilized, after we left the Ravens game today, and said, you know after all those people, said, and I dont know then ,they said you should, and there behind you?? I said? me a congressman? you would like that? She said I dunno, but all those people seem to say the same thing, you would be great at it. I drove a bit farther DD, then said? Do you have a clue how your life would change??? She uttered back, I live it everyday , who you where, what you were, and you sit and enjoy and play with cars and a garage, its not you. I said yea it is, its fun, and she says, all those people see you differently, and seem do think you can help people.??? I laughed DD.. Honestly my friend… I have no need for public service, 31 years done, and I have Tommy the insult master, stoning me as the clown act on here! Life make no sense!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#69437
Sorry, but you are wrong. I taught my kids to think outside of the box. When they disagree with me, all they have to do is make a good argument (my favorite saying to them is “hit me with your best shot”). I raised them to be independent thinkers. The rewards are paying off. They are able to teach me some new things.
AVCC–
I’m not talking about general disagreements, I’m specifically talking about political views. Children inherit political views/partisan affiliations a stunning (and statistically significant) amount of the time. My point was that your children most likely hold political views that are very close to your own. Can you honestly say that any of your kids disagree with you on political issues more often then they agree ?
Yes, especially my oldest. He is a rebel without a cause. But its ok. He lives his life totally different than I do.
My youngest is more conservative than I am.
I’m not lying to you. I have one on both sides of the aisle. I’m stuck in the middle.