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Legislature starts tomorrow. Two progressive pushes are underway for that wonderful day. Ooga, Ooga, Ooga which is mentioned here, is a bipartisan show of support for Karen Petersen’s Open our Genereal Assembly bill. The other “push”, unofficially called “A Subtle Push for Wind Power,” will meet with legislators to bring them up to speed on where we are with wind……is covered by Nancy here.

Wind power carried the weekend. Dana carries a letter from Schwartzkoff on wind power. So does Tommywonk
Nancy has it here.

Unfortunately John Carney does not have a letter to his friends in the General Assembly. Perhaps it is because his friends Thurman Adams, Patty Blevins, Tony Deluca, Harris McDowell, Terry Spence, and acquantences Charlie Copeland, “Bill” Lee, Helene Keeley were all involved in the conspiricy to kill Bluewater wind. (I’ll take Tony DeLuca, with the candlestick, in the conservatory). Some support for windpower there John Carney. …If you can’t control your friends in the middle of the campaign, how do you expect us to trust you to do if you ever become governor?

Now Jack, on the other hand, kicked butt for Delaware. Tommy covered it here, Nancy has it here, and Delaware Liberal lays it down here.

The best synopsis, is that after the holidays, shopping sprees, time with the families, and the first salvo of election season, Delaware is waking up, rubbing their eyes, looking over what happened with wind on December 18, then going WTF!

Because if you look beyond what happened, it was killed. Not by a vetted process, but done in, as often are progressive Senate bills quietly killed for no apparent reason, being left to languish into oblivion. More than likely, saving money for each of Delaware’s citizens, is a rather low priority to these who operate in secrecy, and can never be held accountable……….

Just as the openess of the PSC gave us a deal that was hammermeshed into a win, win, win situation involving Delmarva, Bluewater Wind, and each Delawarean, it was the secrecy of the Legislative Council, that murdered it. But most amazing, is that when one asks why it was murdered, one is met with silence. They know what they did was indefensible. Is there any better example of why we need to completely Open Our General Assembly to the view of all Delawareans? Is there?

Not only did we get info that wind would have to fight harder, but as Tommy points out, gas will be higher this summer. $4 a gallon. Ditch those SUV’s today! A handy guide used by those in the energy fields, is that with every dollar increase in gasoline prices, other energy costs rise by 30%. This summer instead of $200 dollars a month to run our air conditioning, we will apparently be paying $260 dollars a month. Taking the base of 263,418 residental customers, Delmarva will, instead of having a revenue of $52,683,600 in one summer month, Delmarva will be raking in $68,488,680 out of yours and my pockets

Oh …………………Now I get it………….No wonder Delmarva has been fighting this Bluewater thing so hard……………

If Bluewater Wind was producing electricity THIS summer, our rates would stay the same. Not just this for this summer would it stay level, but it would not rise for any summer during the next 25 years, no matter how high gasoline climbs as the planet starts to run out……$5……$6…….$7……$8? Don’t laugh too early. i laughed at the prospect that gas would ever reach $3 a gallon.

Oh, did I mention Obama won Iowa? You can here Tommy’s take on it here, Dana’s take on it here, Delaware Libs take on it here, DWA’s take on it here,

You mean there was a Republican caucus as well? FSP is here, and Digital Federalist is here, and our favorite Curmudgeon is here.

Iowa has made the rest of the Democrat’s primary campaign boring. Their most vibrant and exciting candidate bowed out. Had there not been three major candidates in the race ahead of him, things may have turned out differently. He was apparently close to tracking 10% among Democrats, which is a number that Ron Paul enthusists are clinging to with both hands. Delaware Watch had several posts regarding our favorite son. He played well, he played very well. The media should be cursed when it grinds up fine people like our own, and Chris Dodd and leaves us with “Mr Inexperience, Another Clinton, and Corporate Lawyer.” Just wait for the General election. But hey, Gravell and Kucinich are still trudging……………..The Republicans still have Giulianni to kick around; half the delegates should show up at the Republican convention, decked out in blonde wigs…….And Ron Paul to get excited about…..He hit fourth,has money, and is in New Hampshire, even if he was outFox‘d out of a debate.

Other news: Mahaffie is taking a trip. Care to guess where? And Duffy has a tale about a fateful trip that will have you biting off the tips of your fingernails Hube takes on the News Journal by comparing it to WDEL……Merit Bound Alley has taken on a new spark. Regular postings of high caliber. Welcome back to the fight, Joe. This time i know our side will win…….

And win we shall. It starts with participation. If you can, be here or here tomorrow. 94% is a big number and that is who we need to keep in mind that we are doing all this for…………..