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OKCPS is refusing to release any teacher for the upcoming
school year. District unethical and tricked many teachers
into believing they were not on continuing contract. It
sucks to work for people that you can't trust to do the
right thing! OKC is no place to be!
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Lower fuel costs, cleaner energy, more jobs.
Publish Date: 6/12/2005
Colo. is center of debate on energy
Times-Call correspondent
Joe Hanel
The Daily Times-Call
WASHINGTON — Colorado is drawing comparisons to Saudi
Arabia these days.
The Senate will begin debating an energy ...See More/blockquote>
Lower fuel costs, cleaner energy, more jobs.
Publish Date: 6/12/2005
Colo. is center of debate on energy
Times-Call correspondent
Joe Hanel
The Daily Times-Call
WASHINGTON — Colorado is drawing comparisons to Saudi
Arabia these days.
The Senate will begin debating an energy bill this week,
and senators are eager to find a way to break America’s
dependence on Saudi Arabia, which owns a quarter of the
world’s oil reserves.
Many of them are hoping to find answers in Colorado.
The United States doesn’t have nearly enough of its own
oil, so senators are considering a mix of ideas, from
squeezing oil out of rocks to turning farmers’ crops into
diesel fuel to coal-fired electrical plants.
Most money in the energy bill, which has cleared the House
of Representatives, goes toward subsidizing oil and gas
drillers, but Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., has focused his
efforts on renewable or alternative fuels.
“An America independent from foreign oil, and an America
with a responsible, diversified energy portfolio, will be a
stronger America with a more robust economy,” Salazar said
when the Senate Energy Committee passed the bill last
month.
Salazar backed several amendments to the bill that take the
initial steps down the road to alternative energy:
The Fuels Security Act would double the amount of ethanol
America uses by 2012 to 8 million gallons a year. Another
amendment lets small ethanol and biodiesel plants double
their size.
Salazar also wants to encourage high-tech coal power plants
that convert the gasified coal and then capture most of the
pollution before it leaves the smokestack. His amendment
offers government loan guarantees of 80 percent of a
project’s cost to reassure potential investors in the new
industry.
Salazar also sponsored a measure to experiment with oil
shale — oil trapped in rocks. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo.,
co-sponsored the measure.
All of these plans would have effects in Colorado, which is
already booming because it has some of the country’s best
remaining deposits of natural gas.
Oil shale
Oilmen like to call Colorado the Saudi Arabia of oil shale.
The Department of Energy says the United States has enough
oil shale to fill 2 trillion barrels. That’s more than all
of the conventional oil reserves in the world. The largest
deposit is in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and Colorado has
the richest field of the lot in the Western Slope’s
Piceance Basin.
But it costs much more money to get oil from shale than it
does from traditional oil wells. Colorado experienced an
oil shale boom in the late 1970s, when OPEC had driven up
oil prices. But when prices fell, Exxon abruptly pulled out
of its project in favor of cheaper oil from the Middle
East, leaving more than 2,000 people on the Western Slope
out of work.
Since then, politicians have steered clear of oil shale —
until now.
Salazar and Allard’s plan sets up 10-year research-and-
development leases for oil shale projects. It also requires
the government to map Western Slope oil shale deposits and
do an Environmental Impact Statement.
“The approach we’re taking on this is that we have to go
about oil shale development through a very thoughtful
process,” Salazar said. “The technologies are still being
developed to see if we can develop oil shale in a way that
is both economically and environmentally possible.”
Ethanol and biodiesel
Farm-state legislators love ethanol — auto fuel made from
crops, often corn — because it’s a domestic fuel source
that offers farmers another market for their crops.
Critics say ethanol takes more energy to make than it gives
in return. But a 2002 Department of Agriculture study found
it has a modest gain in efficiency.
In any case, ethanol plants are planned for Windsor, Eaton
and Sterling.
President Bush came out in support of biodiesel fuel —
different from ethanol — in April.
“Biodiesel is one of our nation’s most promising
alternative fuel sources, and by developing biodiesel
you’re making this country less dependent on foreign
sources of oil,” Bush said.
A startup company called Blue Sun has a biodiesel operation
in the San Luis Valley.
Blue Sun works with farmers to grow soybeans, processes
them into biodiesel, then blends it with regular diesel at
a plant in Alamosa to make a fuel that can run in any motor
that uses a diesel engine — from a semi truck to a Mercedes
Benz.
Blue Sun just completed a trial use of the fuel in Boulder
buses and found that its blend offers “outstanding”
pollution reductions, said CEO Jeff Probst.
The company works with about 100 San Luis Valley farmers
and employs 14 people at its Fort Collins headquarters.
Probst said he’s aiming to create a company that can
survive without government subsidies or high oil prices.
by Elizabeth
Jun 29, 2005
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Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had any information about the new
reading and and comprehension exam? Were to get study
guides and all that.
Thanks
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Lets have a National Day of protest. Tuesday Sept. 20th.
No one buys gas that day.
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I think that the reason we are so busy using up the oil is
so that there won't be any left for the arabs. We will suck
their oil dry, switch to alternative sources, and then they
will have nothing to offer anyone.
by Time For Bush To Go
Sep 12, 2005
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After Katrina Fiasco, Time For Bush To Go
By Gordon Adams
September 8, 2005 WASHINGTON - The disastrous federal
response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence,
misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to
serious doubts that the Bush administration should be
allowed to c...See More/blockquote>
After Katrina Fiasco, Time For Bush To Go
By Gordon Adams
September 8, 2005 WASHINGTON - The disastrous federal
response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence,
misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to
serious doubts that the Bush administration should be
allowed to continue in office.
When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion
to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland
security but the officials at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad
daylight for four days while New Orleans and the
Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time
for them to go.
When funding for water works and levees in the gulf region
is repeatedly cut by an administration that seems
determined to undermine the public responsibility for
infrastructure in America, despite clear warnings that the
infrastructure could not survive a major storm, it seems
clear someone is playing politics with the public trust.
When rescue and medical squads are sitting in Manassas and
elsewhere in northern Virginia and foreign assistance
waits at airports because the government can't figure out
how to insure the workers, how to use the assistance or
which jurisdiction should be in charge, it is time for the
administration to leave town.
When President Bush stays on vacation and attends social
functions for two days in the face of disaster before
finally understanding that people are starving, crying out
and dying, it is time for him to go.
When FEMA officials cannot figure out that there are
thousands stranded at the New Orleans convention center -
where people died and were starving - and fussed
ineffectively about the same problems in the Superdome,
they should be fired, not praised, as the president
praised FEMA Director Michael Brown in New Orleans last
week.
When Mr. Bush states publicly that "nobody could
anticipate a breach of the levee" while New Orleans
journalists, Scientific American, National Geographic,
academic researchers and Louisiana politicians had been
doing precisely that for decades, right up through last
year and even as Hurricane Katrina passed over, he should
be laughed out of town as an impostor.
When repeated studies of New Orleans make it clear that
tens of thousands of people would be unable to evacuate
the city in case of a flood, lacking both money and
transportation, but FEMA makes no effort before the storm
to commandeer buses and move them to safety, it is time
for someone to be given his walking papers.
When the president makes Sen. Trent Lott's house in
Pascagoula, Miss., the poster child for rebuilding while
hundreds of thousands are bereft of housing, jobs,
electricity and security, he betrays a careless
insensitivity that should banish him from office.
When the president of the United States points the finger
away from the lame response of his administration to
Katrina and tries to finger local officials in New Orleans
and Baton Rouge, La., as the culprits, he betrays the
unwillingness of this administration to speak truth and
hold itself accountable. As in the case of the miserable
execution of policy in Iraq, Mr. Bush and Karl Rove always
have some excuse for failure other than their own
misjudgments.
We have a president who is apparently ill-informed,
lackadaisical and narrow-minded, surrounded by oil baron
cronies, religious fundamentalist crazies and right-wing
extremists and ideologues. He has appointed officials who
give incompetence new meaning, who replace the positive
role of government with expensive baloney.
They rode into office in a highly contested election,
spouting a message of bipartisanship but determined to
undermine the federal government in every way but defense
(and, after 9/11, one presumed, homeland security). One
with Grover Norquist, they were determined to shrink
Washington until it was "small enough to drown in a
bathtub." Katrina has stripped the veil from this mean-
spirited strategy, exposing the greed, mindlessness and
sheer profiteering behind it.
It is time to hold them accountable - this ugly,
troglodyte crowd of Capital Beltway insiders, rich
lawyers, ideologues, incompetents and their strap-hangers
should be tarred, feathered and ridden gracefully and
mindfully out of Washington and returned to their caves,
clubs in hand.
Gordon Adams, director of security policy studies at the
Elliott School of International Affairs at George
Washington University, was senior White House budget
official for national security in the Clinton
administration.
Copyright © 2005, The Baltimore Sun
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