This message from Sen. Bernie Sanders says it all...PERIOD!!

[Playinghardball]

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. "All of the above" as an energy policy

already seems to be sending that message.

We should be pouring renewable money into places like West Virginia. Give them jobs that are dependent on solar and wind and are safer than mining, less destructive to the environment, and pay better, and the 'coal vote' would dry up and blow away.

[yurbud]

21. should we use exorcism, blood-letting, or modern medicine for hemophilia? All of the above!

[woo me with science]

31. They're working on the bloodsucking, anyway...

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/259489931.html

The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for a new cost-control strategy called "reference pricing." It lets insurers and employers put a dollar limit on what health plans pay for some expensive procedures, such as knee and hip replacements.
....
Your health insurance plan slaps a dollar limit on what it will pay for certain procedures, for example, hospital charges associated with knee and hip replacement operations. That's called the reference price.

Say the limit is $30,000. The plan offers you a choice of hospitals within its provider network. If you pick one that charges $40,000, you would owe $10,000 to the hospital plus your regular cost-sharing for the $30,000 that your plan covers.

The extra $10,000 is treated like an out-of-network expense, and it doesn't count toward your plan's annual limit on out-of-pocket costs.

[Ash_F]

2. Good one! /nt

[november3rd]

3. That Moonscape

That Moonscape in the photo used to be boreal forest.

How is that cost of deforestation factored in to the price of Canadian Tar Sands oil?

[Orrex]

4. Well, the world has a right to know.

[rhett o rick]

5. I doubt that you will find any of the "Group" jumping in to give

their opinons of the pipeline. Come on conservatives, give us the benefit of your wisdom.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. That picture looks like another planet

that I don't want to live on.

K&R

[handmade34]

7. I have worked in parts of VA and PA

that look like that from coal removal

[tofuandbeer]

8. Those who want to pass it, can care less about what the world thinks. $$$

[bearssoapbox]

9. Earth First

[freedom fighter jh]

12. Meanwhile, NASA will get mining started . . .

. . . on the Moon

[bearssoapbox]

23. LOL. I first read it as KFC.

Interesting article. Thanks for the link. Maybe it's finally getting to look profitable enough to think about mining the moon.

But it's to late...



Aliens have abducted them and are using them as slave labor.

[burfman]

32. Think big, a better life could come from mining the Moon

Dr Gerold O'Neil of Princeton University had the idea of moon mining back in the 70's as the way to construct huge space stations (miles in size) to make for a better way of living for the average person. Nothing seemed to push existing technology other than the cost of getting up there. The cost of launching rockets into space seems posed to come down drastically soon thanks to the efforts of Spacex, so maybe the idea is not so far off anymore. The noticeable difference for someone living in one of these big space stations was that the horizon would curve up rather than down. And you could look up through the clouds and see people living on the other side of your world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill

[oldandhappy]

10. Amen!

Just watched Cosmos. Great show week after week. Takes the will of all of us to change. Got me doubts, and i will keep working for the earth.

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked and recommended, Senator Bernie Sanders!

That's a real man of the people!

[Kali]

14. geez they gave you a new playground stay over there

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Maybe they banned kale chips over there.

[Kali]

16. damn kale shills ruin it for everybody

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Maybe they don't ban her often enough.

Or something.

[Kali]

18. I don't think she even has any hides.

Or at least the one I saw. Probably has more than a few socks in the drawer.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Now that says a lot!

[IronLionZion]

19. But Obama and the Dems are killing all those coal jobs

those monsters!

[seabeckind]

22. But, but, we're raising cafe standards...

in 20xx. Doesn't that count for anything????



Meantime we're adding lanes on interstates and letting our railroads fall even more apart ...

Oh never mind.

[lark]

24. Approving Keystone

will prove that the US is owned lock, stock and barrel by the 1% who care about nothing except increasing their wealth and power and fucking the 99% for their few pennies.

[MissDeeds]

25. Bernie gets it

Wish we had more in DC like him.

K&R

[840high]

26. Yes!

[vi5]

27. Is there anyone dumb enough to think we are serious?

I love Bernie and he's right on content, but the fact is that nobody with half a brain could think that anyone in any position of power in our government, in either party, is serious about moving away from fossil fuels.

[xchrom]

28. du rec.

[EEO]

29. We aren't.

[smallcat88]

30. They can deny it all they like

Whether we move away from fossil fuels or not, fossil fuels are moving away from us. There's only so much in the Earth. Why do you think they're going for those awful tar sands. The good old crude is running out. What's crucial is how much more damage we do to the planet before we take the oil giants down (IF!) Sooner or later they'll run out of the fossil fuels they're making so much money on. They're trying to bleed as much out of the Earth as they can while it lasts, and be damned how much damage they do.