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Bozi

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nah i never and mess up this pretty face? hell i put all my energy into playing computers, drinking and nailing females.....school was pretty good for me
 

Bozi

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ßömßärdîër said:
You and I need to get together and do something stupid and have kids (with women).
add beer to the eqauation and i am in:pint:

i actually have family in west virginia, i have never met them but my mum and sister have been over
 

Bjerknes

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It's funny that now since most of the polls across the United States have closed, we're starting to encounter the usual tripe we'd hear once an election is over that you'd never hear before one takes place. "Oh, this country is going to have to and will work together now on a bipartisan basis," or, "We're all americans here," and the usual "I wanna wish on behalf of us all, the Santorum family, the best for Bob Casey." Shut the fuck up and keep swinging the bats at each other, you hypocrites.
 

Bjerknes

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Burke:

While I'm studying here I came across the discussion I was talking with you about earlier... namely your West Virgian Senator Robert Byrd. This is what my energy and enviornmental professor wrote about your politician:


by Dr. Andrew Kleit

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~kleit/front page/V5five.w2.pdf

We discuss today the regulation of sulphur dioxide (SO2) from coal burning electric utilities. It was generally conceded that this use of coal was causing environmental problems. So how was the government going to regulate utilities? The logical way would have been to restrict the output of emissions. The 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) set one set of standards, but in 1979 (amendments to CAA) there was a push to change the law - in part, as we shall see, to protect the jobs of Eastern coal miners.

Abatement could be achieved in 3 ways: 1) substitute low sulphur western coal for high sulphur eastern coal; 2) use "coal washing", which would remove 20 to 40% of the sulphur. The third, and by far the most expensive, was to use smokestack "scrubbers", which can cost up to $100 million per plant.

The government chose to require that coal "scrubbers" be placed on the stacks of utilities. This would reduce sulphur dioxide, at least somewhat. But why would the government prefer process over direct implementation of a standard? Robert Byrd knows why.

Western coal is low sulphur and thus more efficient to use. But Byrd was able to use his position to save jobs for West Virginia coal miners. He and his allies got Congress to pass a law requiring all utility generators to install high quality scrubbers, thus making the sulphur content of the coal unimportant.

The process chosen was the most costly and least effective method of addressing the pollution problem.
Why was the bill passed? Because people thought that the implementation of the scrubbers equals pollution abatement. Think again.

It's pretty funny. Basically, politics and enviornmental policy is all hogwash and simply about rent-seeking.
 

Bozi

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ßömßärdîër said:
Dude, you need to roll over here and kick it then, and I thought the beer was assumed, DUDE!
the ber is always assumed to be in the fridge, though you would have to try REAL Scottish whisky not that bourbon pish, however i need to add it to my list of places to go and kick it with the guys,egypt and RSA are already on the agenda

but in 2 weeks i am off to munich for a week and i can safely say that my liver is gonna take a severe pounding:pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:
 

Bozi

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ßömßärdîër said:
Damn, I'm jealous.

And yo, i have had Chivas Regal.

;)
chivas regal is some nice shit but it aint a patch on glenmorangie,glenfiddich,macallan or most of the quality malts.

about munich i am going with my german gf....the part i am looking forward to most is her squeezing into her bavarian(oktoberfest) outfit:eyebrows:

hell i would nail even you to the wall if you were wearing one of those
 
Apr 12, 2004
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Andy said:
Burke:

While I'm studying here I came across the discussion I was talking with you about earlier... namely your West Virgian Senator Robert Byrd. This is what my energy and enviornmental professor wrote about your politician:




Why was the bill passed? Because people thought that the implementation of the scrubbers equals pollution abatement. Think again.

It's pretty funny. Basically, politics and enviornmental policy is all hogwash and simply about rent-seeking.

Yea, well i have met both Byrd and Rockefeller, and they are nice guys...."white niggers" though, but nice guys.
 
Apr 12, 2004
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Bozi said:
chivas regal is some nice shit but it aint a patch on glenmorangie,glenfiddich,macallan or most of the quality malts.

about munich i am going with my german gf....the part i am looking forward to most is her squeezing into her bavarian(oktoberfest) outfit:eyebrows:

hell i would nail even you to the wall if you were wearing one of those

Had them....

And....I WANT PICS!!!
 

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