Political Chaos

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Ban Volcanos?

One of Carl Levin’s possible 2008 opponents for the US Senate, Bart Baron, had this to say about auto emissions and their impact on the environment:

Let’s get off the back of the auto, oil and petro-chemical industries. I would like to point out that one major volcanic eruption spews more particulate, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide then all the auto emissions, ever. Major volcanic eruptions occur frequently.

I got this little tidbit right from his website.  It is also on ontheissues.com.  He may be on to something, especially since volcanos are also a threat to national security with all the lava and death and such. ;)   If you want some more entertainment, I would suggest checking out www.bartbaron.com, his official website for Senate; I call tell you that I’ll be sad when this guy loses the August Republican Primary to Jack Hoogendyk – Baron would be much more fun to run against!

Wednesday, 9 July 2008 - Posted by christophermi4 | Candidates | , | 3 Comments

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  1. According to the official filing paperwork, Bart Baron isn’t going to be on the ballot – at least not as a Republican which is what he says he is (this year, anyhow). He’s run for various exclusively national offices in the past as an Independant and a Democrat, so maybe it depends on the year or barometric pressure or something else as to what party affiliation he chooses at any given time.

    He will not run for any other office other than national – not even for an advisory board position here in Troy where we both reside. I have asked him about this personally a few years ago and he says he isn’t interested in anything else on the city, county or state level. That’s not how things work in the political arena if you want to get elected and get local support. No legislative experience or having been in elected office of any kind isn’t a strong selling point for a national office especially in times like these when we can’t have political newbies involved on that level.

    I’ve been involved in local politics for a lot of years and watched Bart Baron work. I even supported him many years ago. However now, though I still like some of his ideas, his act is old, he seems a bit arrogant in that his interests are only for national office and he frankly has zero chance against Karl Lenin. Few if any of the GOP base would support him anymore.

    So unless Bart runs on another party as a write-in, he will again either be non-factor or a punch line. And that’s a shame in some ways as I think he could have good stuff to offer if he’d go about it differently. I just have to wonder if he has burned too many bridges with local GOP folks by his schitzophrenic candidate party-affiliation jumping.

    Then again, there’s always the losertarian Ron-ulans. I think a few of those formed the bulk of his support base anyway.

    Comment by Brneyerose | Friday, 11 July 2008 | Reply

  2. Brneyerose – thanks for your insight in Bart Baron. I don’t actually know too much about him (which is why I didn’t lay it on too hard at all) and it was interesting to get personal insight into his role in politics. I didn’t bother to check the official filing information for the ballot (I went from ontheissues.org), so that was my mistake; thanks for pointing that out. :)

    Comment by christophermi4 | Friday, 11 July 2008 | Reply

  3. I appreciate your partisanship. The last time I checked we are all Americans and should be interested in our country’s health and well being. Just a little food for thought…Why are we not driving diesel powered cars? 65% of the vehicles sold in Europe are. 45mpg or more vs. US, tongue in cheek avg of 27mpg with a goal of 35mph by 2020. All US and Japanese firms sell diesels in Europe as does BMW, Mercedes, Fiat, Reneault. We could retool in less than three years. We could almost instanteously reduce emissions by 40% and save up to $ 150 Billion on the trade deficit. The 4+ Million bbl/day US reduction in oil requirement would send the current demand constrained supply into a tailspin and drop the price to $ 75/bbl. or less. Why are the geniuses in either party not discussing this nationally now. Three year max. to convert all vehicle production with existing technology.

    In addition, why is diesel selling at a premium when six years ago it was 80% of the cost of gas. The cost to take out the sulphur added only 10 Cents/gallon. Did you know the the US exports(foreign owned oil and gas firms and Exxon/Mobil) huge quantities of diesel to Europe causing an artificial shortage in the US thereby increasing the price? Not theory but reality. Diesel is just slightly more expensive than kerosene, the least expensive distillate of oil, to make. Gasoline is far more expensive to produce. We are getting ripped off since this cost is in everything we drive, eat and buy.

    And where is the Manhattan Project for the Tomacak clean and safe potential limitless source of power. Developed at Princeton Univ. in 1996 the DOD took over the project and put it in Lawrence Livermore National Labs. The focus now is a way to test our aging nuclear arsenal not power generation. EU, Russia, China and Japan to name a few have an underfunded effort with a goal of 2020 start up and 2050 commercial powerplant fruition. What about 2025 comercial fruition. We developed the nuclear sub in 9yrs. after Hirosima and commercial power three years after that. Couple this with crogenic power transmission developed in 1993(zero transmission losses vs. the currrent 25-33% transmission loss) and Eureka a viable system. If we were capable of changing current lines to cryogenic line, ConEd, the NYC utility is building the first cryogenic transmission line, we would not have to build another power plant until 2030 since wind and limited solar power will be more that sufficient to cover the needs for the next 22 years.

    Maybe you can take your partisan hat off and make people aware. I have tried to little avail. Thanks
    Bart

    Comment by Bart Baron | Saturday, 19 July 2008 | Reply


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