Democrats SUCK!!

[Henry Hawk]

"Neither the Ryan budget nor the one proposed earlier this year from the White House, which raises taxes on the wealthy to trim deficits, is expected to be approved by this divided Congress, rendering them more campaign manifestos than blueprints for governing."

but 414 - zilch!  wow! 

[Exterminator]

but 414 - zilch!  wow! 

Don't wet yourself; it's meaningless...no one is going to vote for a budget that isn't real.

[Henry Hawk]

Don't wet yourself; it's meaningless...no one is going to vote for a budget that isn't real.

too late, I wet myself already!!!  dang it!

[Bo D]

[Henry Hawk]

 

I am going to try harder not to wait too long before I go to the bathroom before I read the Drudge Report!!!

[The Troll]

  Now that's funny Olias. 

[me]

Real good use of our tax dollars. 

Canadian firm will receive up to 50 million stimulus dollars for Nevada solar plant that employs two people
Energy generated will cost ratepayers almost three times as much as energy from natural gas

Kyle Gillis

Thursday, May 10, 2012

LAS VEGAS — The company behind the recently opened Silver State North solar plant is eligible to receive up to $50 million in federal tax credits under the Obama administration's "stimulus" legislation, even though the plant created only two full-time jobs.

Enbridge's Silver State North solar plant opened on Monday, May 7. The plant only employs two full-time workers.

According to a Department of Interior memo, Enbridge Energy Partners, a Canadian-based company with extensive energy holdings in the U.S. that purchased the Southern Nevada plant from Arizona-based First Solar, "can apply for payments of up to 30 percent of the eligible costs of the project — approximately $50 million."

The payments are available through the 1603 Program, a special exemption in the Treasury Department created by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to "reimburse eligible applicants for a portion of the cost of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income."

The program states that the "1603 payment is made after the energy property is placed in service; a 1603 payment is not made prior to or during construction of the energy property."

Silver State North began service on Monday, May 7. Larry Springer, a community relations manager at Enbridge, confirmed to Nevada Journal the company intends to file a 1603 application for reimbursement.

As of March 2012, over 34,000 renewable-energy projects across the country have received $11.2 billion in taxpayer funds through the ARRA-funded program. In Nevada, 108 projects have received $147.1 million.

The Department of Energy estimates 5,500 full-time jobs were created by the program, meaning each job cost taxpayers approximately $2,036,363.

Construction of the Silver State North plant, overseen by First Solar, employed 350 people. Now owned by Enbridge, the plant only requires two full-time employees for operation.

Asked why a plant at the very southern-most tip of Nevada is named "Silver State North," a First Solar spokesman explained that the name was selected to distinguish that plant from a second plant for which the firm is currently seeking permits. That plant — designated "Silver State South" — is to be six times larger than Silver State North, said the spokesman.

Silver State North was opened by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Monday and received praise from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid back in Washington, D.C.

"This important clean energy project will generate affordable electricity for thousands of homes with no air pollution or waste production," said Reid, a longtime champion of alternative-energy subsidies, in a statement. "Developing similar projects in Nevada should be an essential part of our future economic growth strategy."

Silver State North's subsidy per job is even greater than what the Copper Mountain Solar 1 plant in Boulder City received. That plant obtained $42 million in federal tax credits but only employs five full-time employees.

Enbridge plans to sell power generated by Silver State North to NV Energy so NV Energy can meet the state-imposed Renewable Portfolio Standard of 25 percent "green" energy by 2025.

NV Energy will pay 13 cents per kilowatt hour for Silver State North's solar power, nearly three times the amount the company pays for natural gas, and four cents more than it pays for geothermal.

Geoffrey Lawrence, deputy policy director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, the free-market think tank that publishes Nevada Journal, recently noted that Nevada's residential electricity prices are 31.1 percent higher than they were in 2002.

Lawrence compared Nevada electricity prices to those in Texas, which has a deregulated energy market yet still manages to generate renewable energy.

"In fact, private retailers in Texas have shown that they can generate a significant share of the electricity mix using renewable sources even without government mandates," wrote Lawrence.

"On the competitive market, advertising high renewable content has become an important marketing concept to attract customers. So, entrepreneurs have discovered innovative ways to bring renewable electricity to market in order to satisfy consumers' desires — rather than to just satisfy government mandates."

The White House plans to continue to promote clean-energy efforts in Nevada, with Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, scheduled to visit Henderson today. In Reno on Friday, President Obama will tout his congressional "To-Do List," which includes "invest in clean energy manufacturing."

http://www.npri.org/publications/pub_detail.asp?id=917

[The Troll]

  Another tidbit of information from   Same old stuff from a pro Republican website.  I wonder how much of this shit is true.  I just can believe that our government would give a Canadian company $50 million for a 2 full time employee jobs.

  I think your kidding me,   Same old bull shit from the far right Republicans, it ain't going to work Big Red. 

[me]

  Another tidbit of information from   Same old stuff from a pro Republican website.  I wonder how much of this shit is true.  I just can believe that our government would give a Canadian company $50 million for a 2 full time employee jobs.

  I think your kidding me,   Same old bull shit from the far right Republicans, it ain't going to work Big Red. 

Um, it's in Harry Reed's state.

[The Troll]

Um, it's in Harry Reed's state.

  So?  Prove that Harry got anything to do with it.  When you got board members who have worked and are working for the banks and the Chamber of Commerces it can not pass the smell test.

  But then the  NPRI's Spring Celebration in Reno is going to have as it's main speaker Jonah Goldberg it sure won't pass the smell test and it's full to the rim with poison Republican Kool-Aid. 

  You know what you can do with this information is, just shove it where the sunshine don't reach.  Nice try Big RED. 

[Henry Hawk]

Really?   

[The Troll]

Really?   

  More dirty tricks and misinformation brought to you by the great faux Republican Party.  A little more of Swift Boating. 

[Henry Hawk]

  More dirty tricks and misinformation brought to you by the great faux Republican Party.  A little more of Swift Boating. 

it is NEWSWEEK goof ball........a magazine with a very liberal bias!  The RIGHT had NOTHING to do with labeling him this.......this is what YOUR media wants people to believe...just lke Clinton was the first black president.

[The Troll]

it is NEWSWEEK goof ball........a magazine with a very liberal bias!  The RIGHT had NOTHING to do with labeling him this.......this is what YOUR media wants people to believe...just lke Clinton was the first black president.

  Yes, I know  Newsweek.  I use to take Newsweek and Time, just like I use to listen to Rush Limbaugh.  But all three got so Republican with their pro rich, pro corporation and conservative slant I quite taking the Republican rags and stopped listen to Rush.

  All three full are so full of bullshit and lies, just like Fox News.   

[Henry Hawk]

Not going to argue, but Newsweek is a very liberal biased news magazine.
It is owned by Sidney Harman a husband of a democrat congressman, and before that it was owned by the Washington Post, a very liberal newspaper.

get your stories straight.