Clean Energy Act will create jobs

Agriculture and energy policy are linked, which is why the federal debate about climate change matters so much in rural Missouri. Congressman Ike Skelton voted for the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) because it provides an opportunity for farmers to increase their income while safeguarding their livelihoods and the nation’s food and energy supplies.

Show Me Energy Cooperative in Centerview has developed a biomass fuel from sustainable agricultural residues. We sell this fuel to utility companies, who use it in place of some coal. This reduces pollution from the power plant and provides the farmers in the co-op with a market for agricultural residues as energy crops.

If ACES becomes law, not only will it provide further incentives for utilities to use cleaner resources; it will allow us to include more farmers in our co-op, buy more biomass, deploy new co-ops and employ more people. This is to say nothing of the other rural economic opportunities.

ACES provides the tools to ensure that American farmers can benefit from solutions to our energy crisis.

Thank you to Congressman Skelton for voting to put us on the right path for clean energy and rural economic development.

Steve Flick
President of the Board Show Me Energy Cooperative
Centerview, Mo.

Comments

[JoCo]

Yeah, Kee, if that's your real name,

You can write a letter about 2 escaped home inmates, have it published by the falling Star and then make a sensible comment on your letter. A WIN-WIN for ya.

HINT: This is where you call me a LOSER again.

[Kee]

Somebody call the home and tell them two of their inmates are lose.......and WTF is going on with this column at the Falling Star? This is really, really, lame on their part.

[JoCo]

Jim,

I've checked all day for a new installment. I'd not read gogop in my short time here, but he's an example of...... well, I'll wait some more and let him pick his own term(s).

[Jim]

Perhaps they left these letters up so gogop can back up his ridiculous goofball statements.

[JoCo]

Well, Ms. Cheatum,

I totally fail to see what your experience with MEDICARE has to do with The Clean Energy Act and job creation.

You should probably have had your letter edited out by Star staff or at least have tried to get your subjects straight.

Sounds like just another misguided rant by

........................O LIBERALS
........................O CONSERVATIVES
check one

........................O PRO-LABOR
........................O PRO-BUSINESS
check one

........................O DEMOCRATS
........................O REPUBLICANS
........................O MUGWUMPS
check one

........................O GREEN WEINIES
........................O BLUE MEANIES

OK, I'm done
Check please

[JoCo]

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A JoCo Quick Pick:

KC Star, Thursday, 7/9/09, pg.A-18, Letters:

REFORM HEALTH CARE

I certainly hope that Cathy Ash and Mary Goodwin (7/3 Letters)will read Barbara Shelly's column "Health care Stories Tell Her Changes Are Needed" (7/3 Opinion). It brings to a personal level the need for reform of health care in the U.S. I have no fear of a Medicare-type health care for all. Indeed I hope for it. I have had 5 surgeries in the last 5 years, and with Medicare and my gap insurance, I paid only a pittance-- and received excellent care with no waiting.

Kris Cheatum
Kansas City

Hey, pmcw, THIS can be fun!

[JoCo]

OK,gogop,

I stopped, listened, and SAW?. Paused belittling and saw you say that (sic) "President Hussein can't prove he was born here, and regularly expresses his hatred for America. Congressional dems SanFran and the weinie are just as bad and surrendering with AlQueda, the Hussein bailout, and all the other things will flush us down the tubes."

Is that all or shall I await the next installment? Please go on. The REAL apprehension that you instill in me is the realization that such convincing reason CAN catch fire among the electorate. THAT'S what's "very easy to see".

[JoCo]

WTKC,

Not that I doubted you, but witness here in River City the personification of the placards you saw on TV the other day.

[JoCo]

And "speaking to power": If you fear the power of the new American presidency in this millenium, research the GW Bush use of signing statements, a legitimate executive branch action, to shift the balance of power away from the legislative and toward the executive. Constitutional experts of all persuasion cited 3/4 of the Bush signing statements as constitutionally troubling. By contrast, the same experts found less than 1/5 of Clinton's troublesome. For better or worse, just as Bush inherited certain advantages from Clinton, Obama has assumed a presidency freshly replete with enhanced possibilities, with the executorial boundaries pushed outward by GWB. Speak, if you will, to that new presidential power.

[JoCo]

And PLEASE goGOP, don't quote me radical Republican talking points as an example of the dastardly Democrats. Give me something I can use. I'm not as knowledeable as many on this or any issue, but I'm trying to judge and learn on merits, and relation of the present to the past, not on fear or ridicule.

[JoCo]

I would say you are the master of belittlement. What is marxist/nazI? Where may I research that system, say, based on historical or even philosophical precedent? I am a GREAT listener to reason, but you have quite obviously abandoned any you may have had. Learn some tolerance if you EVER expect to be taken seriously by anyone outside your own choir.

As far as shooting the messenger, if I were so inclined, a squirt gun would better fit your all-wet message.

Obama and his Party aren't the perfection you are evidently used to. But the tripe you spew, though worth a listen to expand my awareness of blind radicalism, is hardly the way back nor has it EVER suceeded in leading the way there.

[gogop]

It's very easy tto see that the Democrat Party is the Marxist/Nazy party bent on ruining America. If you stop belittling those who are speaking that truth to power and listen, you would see that. I for one am not amused by our great country being led by a man named Hussein who wasn't born here (at least cant prove it) and doesn't love our country (he expresses his hatred for it on a regular basis). The Democrat party in congress, led by San Fran Nan the weenie reid are just as bad. The Hussein bailout, huge tax increases, surrendering with Al qaida and all the other things they are doing will flush this great country down the tubes. don't shoot the messenger, believe the message!!

[JoCo]

gogop,

Did you miss the thread next door? Or author it?

[JoCo]

Gogop,

Did you get that term "marxist/nazi" from A. Bunker?

I can just about hear it. "Meathead, you marxist/nazi!"

OK, now that we've settled on marxist, cite examples of Marxism that are newly peculiar to our system via this bill.

It's important we know. For our VERY survival.

[JoCo]

The letters in the paper are fresh. We can either enter them and comment, wait til tomorrow and maybe get doubletime or keep on hashing out these.

An editor may sleep til the alarm comes on, but commenters' work is NEVER done!

[gogop]

Hussein and the Democrat Party will ruin our country with this marxist/nazi bill and they know it. This bill will kill industry and cost average americans another $3,100 a year just to start. these marxists need to be defeated by any means necessary for our great country to survive!

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Apparently all of these coal haters do not have the slightest understanding of the robust upgrades to AQCS that have been ongoing nor the level of good paying jobs these projects have created. The enviro hacks are just not objective nor are they up to sniff on CCT.
Biomass produces pollution, don't be fooled and what is the cost per kwh delivered?Driving by a wind farm in rural IA the other day, it was stagnant (not turning) so how much electricty do you think was being captured? What these morons and dipstock lawyers in Washington fail to tell you is that these AQCS capture nearly all of the CO2 and SO2. If you have never been in a conrtol room of a power plant, then you probably are clueless to the impressive technology.

[Kee]

Yep yesterday's letters....

[solomon]

....someone must have thought they hit the snooze button.......

[pmcw]

"Copied and pasted"

Yes, but I'm the original author so I can do that and will continue to do that as long as the thinking is pertinent. I'm also the author of the piece on Social Security I frequently link.