Comments on: IER’s Bold Stimulus Plan: A Roadmap to Improving the Economy and Creating Jobs, All at No Cost to the Taxpayer

By: neil

neil — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:17:44 +0000

This “bold” plan sounds more like it was dreamed up by the GOP, and not by anyone impartially studying the subject. It ignores important issues in its bid to deregulate. It’s rather less about the flow of energy and more about the flow of money (which is apparently more important than life).

Where’s the concentration on new technology and forward-thinking? What about limiting further environmental destruction and degradation (i.e. being conservative)? Where’s the plan to address the actual problems we face (not just the inconveniences to profit)?

“First, do no harm” is a phrase made a mockery of by this plan.

Walking backwards, hanging onto the problems created by yesterday’s ignorance and lack of foresight. There’s nothing bold about remaining tools to the arbitrary power of corporations that have grown extremely wealthy and powerful.

Retaining the status quo of fossil fuels, and weakening the power of people to control what corporations can get away with is not bold, it is weak and reckless.

By: Robert Bostick

Robert Bostick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:41:45 +0000

. Russell Ravenwood | 12.04.08
I have yet to see any reference to my personal “hot button” related to the wanton use of fossil fuels.
Consider that all fossil fuels are actually fossilized sunlight. The orignal capture of that sunlight occured many millions of years ago. When we burn those fossil fuels, we release CO2 that was formed, um, millions of years ago.
But to me the worst thing released is the most damaging: heat. The formation of those fossil fuels is in reality fossilizing captured solar energy. And when we burn those fuels, we are releasing heat that was captured millions of years ago.
So what? you may wonder. Well, it comes down to a problem of thermal stability of the entire earth. Earth continually receives solar energy, the result being that the entire earth heats up. The earth in turn radiates most of that trapped heat back into space.
Yes, CO2 and CH4 (methane) and a host of other things in the atmosphere pick up some of that heat (every substance has thermal capacity). However, consider that in the past 150 years of so we have released the heat of solar energy from many millions of years in the past. In effect this is equivalent to an explosion when considered over geologic time.
In other words, useing fossil fuels releases more energy into the earth than what it normally receives on a daily basis from the sun. If you look into the physics involved, you will find that if an object (earth) receives more heat energy that it is radiating, then its temperature rises. It will rise to the point where it radiates as much heat as it receives FROM ALL SOURCES, which means to a very high teperature. (Because the amount of energy radiated depends on the object’s temperature.)
Hence, global warming.

By: J Bishop

J Bishop — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:48:59 +0000

Make this happen. Let’s free ourselves of foreign influence in our energy production. Somebody please tell me…Why is this so hard for Dimocrats to understand?

By: Mark Walton

Mark Walton — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Is there a petition I can sign to support IER’s Bold Stimulus Plan?

By: N Maier

N Maier — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:42:30 +0000

This is a great proposal to get the economy moving again… Without the governement spending a trillion dollars of our chidren’s money.

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By: Buck

Buck — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:40:36 +0000

Finally! A plan that makes some sense!