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Yes, we should be looking for something else as we actually want a planet left.

I have a CONSPIRACY theory for you, the Saudis knew for a long time about these oil fields but didn’t use them so they could artificially drive up oil prices, when supply goes down and demand is rocketing the price of the product goes up and up, making them loads of money. I suspect this is happening with many other oil companies as well under the cover of oil shortage, not debunking that there is one though.

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From you, me and everyone else who pays taxes. He will raise our taxes(what a surprise).

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I think you don’t care one bit about the environment, and your lack of education is apparent when you reveal your ditto-headness by spewing your cap-and-tax garbage.

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The buzz words are just that, words that make your head buzz. No substance no purpose except to make someone feel good.

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The world runs on coal and oil (for the most part)

The oil company’s have power as long as oil powers the world.

Influence Elections ? – No ! They don’t have to.
Politicians on payroll ? – No ! They don’t need to do that, that would be a waste of profits.
Obstruct the electric car that only get 90 miles to a charge at best ? – That’s silly talk.

The oil company’s have real power, not the kind you have to buy or steal. The have power because the world is addicted to oil.
And when we take our 9 mile to the gallon SUV’s to the gas station we are paying with our hard earned money to keep them in power.

Nothing Liberal about that.

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No Government, nor NGO is actually doing anything that would alter the course of the climate. There are some efforts to produce less CO2, http://www.rense.com/general88/cap.htm
but CO2 is not what drives the climate. Http://www.john-daly.com/forcing/moderr.htm
Many of their CO2 reduction efforts are really not to reduce CO2, but to use Global warming as an excuse for other policies ostensibly to reduce CO2 production. Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiBvlwbwfJDBnLyqssvEh_Tty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100427155928AAb6Dwg&show=7#profile-info-A6qoNVxJaa
Obama is currently pushing a climate bill proposed by Sens. Kerry and Lieberman that restricts CO2 production in only certain sectors of the economy, and subsidizes off shore drilling and nuclear power.
Http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/12/AR2010051202913.html

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White House is putting pressure on BP because voters are putting pressure on it (the spill is already being called Obama’s Katrina).

Shale gas can replace oil for most uses, and there is plenty of it.

But otherwise you are right, politicians (of any persuasion) tend to be out of touch with reality.

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I remember hearing it was roughly worldwide about 1.5% sorry cant provide a link.

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Coal, after all it’s biomass from millions of years ago. It just takes a very very long time to renew itself.

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How about just EKO KIDS

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Cebu made furniture: http://www.cebuexhibition.com/
The Cebu International Furniture and Furnishings Exhibition, more popularly known as Cebu X, has become a focal point for buyers and retailers of both contemporary and classical pieces.
You should be able to order on line, or ask if they have a store in Manila or Quezon City.

Philippine Furniture made in Cebu: http://www.philippinedecor.com/
Quezon City website: http://www.33point3.com
33 Point 3 Exports, Inc
M.L. Quezon St., Casuntingan
Phone: (63-34) 7099985 Official Representative Phone: (63-34) 7099985
Most of the other locations were in Cebu which is far south of where you live.

Philippine Furniture Makers Alphabetical Listings:
http://www.philippinefurniture.com/phila2z.php

Jumbo Pacific Inc.: http://www.philippinemerchandises.com/
Based in Philippines, sells wide range of handicrafts.
Email: info@jpacific.com

Philippine Handicraft of Abaca & Sinamay,Rattan,Paper-mache
http://www3.jetro.go.jp/ttppoas/anken/0001072000/1072865_e.html

Filipino Handicrafts: http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/PH-suppliers/Handicraft.html

Philippine furniture on contract basis built on a contract basis only (sounds expensive, but of a high quality): http://www.globaloutdoorfurniture.com/map7/philippine-furniture-on-contract-basis.htm
They specialize in outdoor furniture.

PRIMAFIL Furniture: http://www.primafilinc.com/

For CHEAP I would recommend going to eBay in China and the Pacific Area for your furniture. I would also check Vietnam, they seem to be stealing business from the Philippines (according to the Manila Bulletin On-line).
Check out this search from the Manila Bulletin:
http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2007/03/02/search.php

Winners Furniture: http://www.winnersfurniture.net/
Blk. 27 Lot 18 Marcos Alvarez Ave., Green Valley Subd.,
San Nicolas 1, Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines
Phone: +63.46.872.0819

A lot of this furniture offered was made with Ratan which is a renewable resource.

The single cheapest source would be Craig’s List in the Philippines: http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/
This is as list of local people, organized by city, that would be wiling to buy, sell or trade local goods; think of it as a yard sale that is held on line.

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Definitely convertible, it saves so much money. It can be their bed for their whole lives.

Some how make it hard to scratch/dent.

One side being able to be lowered would be a huge plus which I don’t have.

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I’d like a crib that is quieter to raise and lower the side rail. Mine is so loud I always wake my daughter up when I raise the rail up at night.

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I am definately in the market for a convertible crib. We figure that after we have about 3 kids and everyone uses it then we’ll use it as a headboard/footboard. We want something that isn’t going to be too dated.

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Environmental damage from drilling for oil

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A Global enviromental “issue” is a man made (global warming, ice-caps, etc.) excuse for more government spending. It lines the pockets of those in power and uses the Earth as their scapegoat.

There’s an agenda out there in the goverment (by the Liberals) that they dont tell you when they say they “care” about the earth.

Al Gore makes a movie, and flys around the world on his private jet, emitting more carbon than anyone warning the world of Global warming, and his house uses the most insufficent amount of engery it can.

We can drill more resources (oil) in Alaska because environmentalists are worried about the Caribou, yet research has shown that they are actually thriving and surviving better because of the heat that the already laid pipes give off.

There is no oil crisis or issue. We have the resources but goverment stops us from using them. They need the crisis or else they lose their power.

If you’re smart, you’ll research all of this in places other than your textbooks, because they’re written and distributed by the same people making the issue’s up. Dont be surprised when your teachers jaw drops, either.

Natural Disasters:

These arent issues, they are natural. Humans have nothing to do with them, and if they do it’s when the Earth says its time to cut back the population a few, “i need a break.” A hurrincane, volcano, or earthquake is the worlds way of evening itself out.

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Most of the environmental issues surround mining issues. Mining minerals, especially copper, is Chile’s main source of income. All the big mining companies are here: Phelps-Dodge, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome, Falconbridge, BH Billiton.

Go to youtube and search: Anthony Rauld

He is doing an extensive documentary on the Barrick Gold’s proposal to melt a glacier in order to extract the gold underneath. The project is Pascua Llama, and it’s been quite controversial. Anthony is currently completing his masters degree at SF State in Anthropology/Film.

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I have seen many stories about the homes built in the 9th ward of New Orleans, LA. The people involved in the building and those ultimately who will live in them become more aware of many issues, indoor air quality and energy conservation. For many low income families they was the green movement as something only for the rich. They are learning how to conserve energy and use resources better. Many of the homes being built after Katrina are reusing salvaged materials as well. They are a great way to show us all that a small initial investment can have long term costs savings as well as help the planet.

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Sweden is a country of vast forests, marvellous archipelagos and clean air. But there are also severe environmental problems, such as excessively high nutrient levels in the Baltic Sea, acidification of lakes and land, and continuing exposure to a number of toxic substances, where the margins between current levels and levels that could result in adverse health affects are small.

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Because in order to force people to switch to an alternative fuel, you would have to force nearly everyone in the US to buy a new car and for many, especially in an economic recession, that just isnt an option. You gonna buy everyone a new car?

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Methane can be made quite easily from biomass and then cleaned to pipeline standards, so fracking is not necessary. The cost of production is about $4/GJ, which is close to the current spot price for natural gas. The economic merit depends on location because pipeline transport is a significant cost. Locally, the consumer cost of natural gas is about 75% over the spot price due to pipeline charges. That leaves room for local production from biomass sources to be profitable. $4 cost of production + $2 profit margin + $1 local distribution. For fossil natural gas the numbers are $2 cost of production + $2 profit + $2 pipeline + $1 local distribution. The consumer price is the same, but local production from renewable sources is preferable because all of the money stays in the local economy and it is carbon neutral.

Edit: RE solar vs biomass scale up. I like both technologies. Solar captures a larger fraction of solar radiation than plants, but comes at a higher capital cost. At 50 N, a solar PV panel operates at 25% efficiency in December and January due to low solar irradiation. Solar PV panels are more suited to lower latitudes where the longer duty cycle will justify the investment. I think that biomass energy is more suitable for high latitudes where solar irradiation is more seasonal. The technology for biomass methane is quite simple. If 20,000 peasant farmers in Bangladesh can build anaerobic digestion pits with minimal resources and cook their meals with the gas produced, the technology is within reach for most Americans (although some of the comments on YA make me wonder…). The main limiting factor for biomass methane is political will.

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Disadvantages:

Coal
Oil
Natural gas
Nuclear power

Advantages:

Solar power
Hydroelectric power
Geothermal power
Tidal power
Biomass

Hope I helped! 🙂

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I think many people know of the impact but do not want to spend the extra time or money they think lessening their impact will take. Changing the way people are raised to think is hard,too.

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Individually, be aware of where of you dispose everything . Recycling has a major impact on our environment and it is also a political statement from the community. Politicians pay attention to your demands with the environment, now. Also , be aware of how alternative fuels work ahead of time, so when they become available you can demand either ethanol or biodiesel as a your choice of fuel. If the demand is big enough, the suppliers will produce.

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The government will tax and regulate the alternative fuel to cost as much as gasoline is costing us today.

It is a game they play. The US alone has 1.4 trillion barrels of oil ready to be used. That is more than 200 years supply. Gasoline should only cost about $1.80 per gallon. The moretoreum on drilling is what is causing prices to be so high. Literally.

Now that natural gas has been found in abundence, Obama is trying to regulate it and limit production to drive prices up. Operating coal mines have been shut down on technicalities, and about 12 to 18% of all electric generation will be lost in the next few years. Get ready for electricity to skyrocket like gasoline did.

Hydrogen will not be a fuel unless someone finds a cheap way to produce it, and the equipment needed is very expensive because the hydrogen can not be use conventional metals to transport and store.
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I think it may be ‘ Time Wrap ‘ or ‘ I Don’t Know That ‘

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Totally for. If they have the money to build a new building, they can afford to retrofit it for alternative energy. Plus they will save money over the buildings lifetime to more than pay for the retro fit.

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Hey Wordy, you are on to something here. Fortunately, so are about 100,000 other people. We have been powering our home with the wind and sun for 11 years now. No, the cells do not degrade in 5 to 10 years. If they did, the manufacturers would not warranty them for 25 years as they do. I did have one quit working after 8 years, they replaced it free of charge. Our wind turbine probably makes power more economically than the solar array, but you need a tower to use one, which makes them less than desireable for some people. One of your answers here complains about paying $500 monthly to the power company. In most cases here, the problem is not rates, but usage. Our home used to use about $45 per month in power, now with our solar array and turbine, it uses less than $5. Will we get our $9600 dollar investment back one day? Probably not in real dollars. But then our home has not lost power in 11 years now for even a minute, how much is that worth to you?

There are lots of factors here, but my point is that you can do something about it. Like I said, there are well over 100,000 homes and businesses using some level of solar power today, those are the documented ones. Many remote homes are not included in that tally because the researchers are not aware of them. As far as oil goes, you’re correct, it doesn’t make sense to purchase a commodity from a mideaster country, pay to ship it here, then light it on fire, but that is exactly what we do each day. Then the pollution lands here as well, what good is that? Want to get involved? I’ll list some sources below. It will take a bit of reading to get up to speed, but don’t get weighed down by all of it. I was in the same place as you 12 years ago, now I’m here. I’m not a rocket scientist, anyone can get here if they want. The next place we’re going is into a plug in hybrid car, which will be recharged by our solar array,and we are already making arrangements to expand the array to carry the extra load. Then our vehicle will be completely solar powered for trips we make in town. Join us, we’d love the company. Rudydoo

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Everything to spend more of our $ for nothing.
Seriously all he does is spend spend spend.
I c no progress with anything in this country

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Buy your electricity from a green-electricity provider. You don’t need to install solar panels on-site, really. Also, you can buy products from Amazon’s Green Store: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Green/b/?_encoding=UTF8&node=394379011&redirect=true&tag=gree046-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

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I have used Seventh Generation Laundry Detergent for about 15 years and highly recommend it. If every household in the U.S. Replaced just one bottle of 18 load petroleum based powder laundry detergent with our vegetable based product, we could save 93,200 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool, 5,300 U.S. Homes for a year! See – oil in many more things than our gas tanks!

* Non-toxic.
* Biodegradable
* No petroleum based cleaners
* No optical brighteners
* No phosphates
* No dyes or artificial fragrances
* No chlorine bleach
* No NTA or EDTA
* Safe for septic and greywater systems

The seventh generation laundry detergent works well on general cleaning. The whites do get a bit dingy after awhile but you can use OxyClean or hydrogen perioxide bleach to whiten them up again.

Buy from drugstore.com, gaiam.com or some grocery stores (Krogers in eastern US). Drugstore.com has a sale right now.
With free shipping! I’m gonna stock up right now.

PS….Please don’t use Tide!

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I own three:

Zoltek (ZOLT) a manufacturer of carbon fiber. Currently used in the blades of super large wind turbines. Soon to be used in cars to make them stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient. With dozens of other energy saving uses in the future.

Composite Technologies (CPTC) a manufacturer of the largest wind turbines (the D8.2) and of very high efficient electric transmission cable to save energy.

Plug Power (PLUG) a manufacturer of fuel cells which in the near future will be used to power cars with hydrogen and will only emit water vapor. They also will will be producing natural gas home energy units which will heat homes and produce hydrogen used to fuel your fuel cell car.

Zoltek is profitable, the other two are not. All three have potential for explosive growth. Good luck!

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Here’s an interesting site where they have everything you’re looking for…and even organically-grown bamboo….(fits right in with your Luau theme)

http://www.branchhome.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=36&gclid=CMy9_-uGu6ACFQZg2godN2xUJA

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Recycle everything you can. Some stuff you can get $ for.
Old tires can be converted into plantert or swings. Scrap metal doesn’t pay well But it’s free$ and keeping stuff out of land fill. Sometimes coolant can be strained and reused.
Recycling takes up some of your time.

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Minerals are inorganic substances that naturally occur in rocks.They occur in pure state and in combinations ,and include metals and gems as well as non-metallic minerals. Asbestos.graphite,gypsum, phosphorus,sulphur quartz etc are minerals only
Fossil fuels are derived from the organic remains of plants and animals.The principal fossil fuels are coal,oil,and gas.

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1) a nonrenewable resources is a source that cannot be remade and is used up in the future so the answer would be B

2) renewable resources are things that can be made again or can keep making energy so the answer is A

3) hydroelectric power is the use of water turing a turbine so the answer is A beause it cannot run out

4) look up at question one and you see that oil is a nonrenewable resource so the answer is D

5)i don’t know but my guess would be B

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1-B
2-D
3-A
4-B
5-A
that was a piece of cake

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1. B it’s called non-renewable because it cannot be renewed and will eventually be used up.
2. A which is why they’re called renewable.
3. A Hydroelectric power is renewable since it is powered by the action of the sun and moon on water or by gravity.
4. D. Oill is non-renewable since it will eventually run out (although technically oil can still be made but not nearly as fast as it is used up.) It takes millions of years to create an oil well and it is used up in a few short decades.
5. A. The economic advantages of non-renewable energy is primary reason for the dependence on non-renewable resources but as those resources run out it becomes more and more economically viable to switch to renewable energy forms.

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Can not be reused and redeveloped
can be reused and redeveloped
Hydroelectric power
Oil
they cost too much

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The roll of the banking system to really to provide credit, not provide capital to fund sectors in the economy.

“An important part of the Federal Reserve’s statutory mandate is promoting the availability of credit throughout the banking system.”
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/Kroszner20070613a.htm

Banks loan money based on risk models. Clearly their models failed miserably. They over lent in the real estate market and assumed two things.

1. Real estate prices can never go down.
2. Interest rates can never go up.

The FED Funds rate went from 1.00% on 06-25-2003 to 5.25% 06-29-2006 – a 425% rate increase. This killed the real estate market.
Http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/fundsrate.htm

Anyone with adjustable rates were severely impacted. And millions got signature loans, leveraged phantom equity in their house and bought more real estate.

Thus I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that, “The recent banking crisis can be attributed to the failure of this system to allocate money to where is needed.” That would not be the role of banks.

Banks PRIMARY business is lending in the area of home and commercial real estate. The stock market provides capital to new and expanding business that banks do not want to take such risk.

Yes, a bailout would violate the principles of a free market.

However, the risk to the US banking system and hence the US economy are a far greater risk. We, as consumers cannot afford to allow massive banks failures. The result could be huge unemployment 30%+, soaring inflation/ interest rates (25-30%+), and a plunge in the US Dollar, further escalating inflation (everything will get expensive fast). This would make The Depression look like an e-Ticket at Disneyland.

Taking government control over the entire economy would be called Socialism. We would be looking at income taxes like most socialist countries who pay ~50% on income taxes with no deductions no matter how much you make. Socialists’ counties also pay 40-50% in sales tax. That is why people don’t drive luxury cars in mass in Europe, have big screen TV’s, as they do in the USA. Europe also pays double what we pay for gas. It’s the high EU socialistic taxes that everyone has to pay to live in socialists countries.

They also live what we would call apartments or very small housing in comparison. There are exceptions, but they are not common place like they are in the US.

Sure you get health care and education free, but it really isn’t free, because Europeans pay for those social programs via higher taxes. That is why we left Great Britain 232 years ago. Why would we go back to that program?

The USA spends more on education than any country in the world. We have more government sponsored universities, state schools, junior colleges, and K-12 than any anyone.

The USA spends about $ 1.25 Trillion (2007) on entitlement programs (welfare, social security, Medicare, and other related social programs). This amount will increase rapidly every year as more baby boomer retire and collect social security and need medicine.
Http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/78xx/doc7851/03-08-Long-Term%20Spending.pdf

The government should allow tax breaks and other incentives to get PRIVATE money into alternative energy.

The US should use and develop our own energy which we have and could develop, but no one wants a nuclear power plant in their home town.

As a result of that “Toxic Substances Control Act” (Clean Air Act), [15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq]. We have not had a single new oil refinery built in the USA (for our own domestic oil benefit) since 1976.

Toxic Substances Control Act
http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/tsca.html

“There hasn’t been a new refinery built in the U.S. Since 1976, the result of extremely tight environmental restrictions, not-in-my-back-yard community opposition, and the high cost of new construction.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6019739/

The government’s role is not to create jobs. That thinking would be shared by socialists. The gov can lay the foundation and set up the rules for the private sector to create jobs.

Japan obviously went through a bit of restricting since WWI, but so did the rest of the world. Japan is the #2 economy after the USA.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Japan

Japan has not recovered in 19 years from the housing bust of 1989. The Nikkei-225 Index (Japan’s major market index) is still down about 50% from their 1989 high.

“The (Nikkei-225) average peaked at 38,915.87 points on December 29, 1989.”
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/SERV/nikkei_indexes/nifaqs.html

Chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkei_225

“Bailout”
So is a bailout of US banks a solution? Yes, it is a solution. Is it the only solution, no.

Keep in mind that despite incorrect belief, the US tax payer is not just handing out a $700 billion check to banks.

We would be buying up real estate ASSETS with that money, but not all at once. Homeowners would pay the gov for their mortgage. After 25-30 years, hopefully real estate price would be higher then, verses now. Then the US gov could and would sell those properties at current market prices. Any gain would go to the Treasury (the tax payers).

If structured correctly, the amount of money the tax payer could make could pay for a lot in the future.

If housing grows at just 3% a year for the next 30 years (assume 30 year mortgage) on average, that $700 Billion would grow to $1.699 Trillion.
Http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm

This does not include the interest earned by tax payers on the mortgages.

In addition, I think it would be wise if the government REQUIRES all banks who participate in this “bailout” to GIVE the Treasury (the tax payers) rights or warrants and or Senior Preferred Stock (legal term is “Senior Liquidation Preference”) to own part of the bank’s stock. So if the bank makes money in the future, the Treasury (the tax payers) make a profit off their stock.

Senior Liquidation Preference
“A series of preferred stock has a “senior” liquidation preference when it is entitled to receive its liquidation preference before another series of preferred stock. ”
http://www.fenwick.com/vctrends/VC_Terms.htm

Preferred Stock
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/preferredstock.asp

I think this is a fair risk exchange for the Treasury (the tax payers) to take on all the bad banking decisions. So now we have several ways for tax payers to make money on their investment.

1. Rights, warrants, and or Senior Preferred Stock of ownership in such banks we bail out. Preferred stocks often pay quarterly dividends. We make money while we wait for a return on our $700 Billion investment. We profit on the banks growth in their stock price, when banks earn money in the future. We lose nothing if they don’t.

Banks can pay the Treasury a PREMIUM now, for the right to buy back the stock, warrants, etc, issued to the US Gov at a profit say 50%. I figure as long as the bank doesn’t fail in the future, the stock should easily have grown by 50% over 30 years.

Wachovia is up 87% (interday trading, 09-30-08 ) one day after they were taken over by the FDIC and handed to Citigroup.

2. We make interest on existing mortgages we bought with that $700 Billion. Some will default, yes, but tax payers get the house to hold or sell it for cash.

3. Mortgages that are held to maturity, (25-30 years from now) tax payers get fair market value of home prices in the future. That alone should pay off the investment. But I still think we should penalize the banks for making bad decisions, and say if you want tax payers to take on this investment, we want part ownership with the opportunity to share in the profits of your good assets too.

This is exactly how the Citibank – Wachovia deal was structured with the FDIC.

Video
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=871751416

Summary:
“Citigroup has granted the FDIC $12 billion in preferred stock and warrants to compensate the FDIC for bearing this risk.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2008/09/29/daily11.html?ana=from_rss

So, how the proposed bailout is structured will answer this question. And how the markets react to it, will be the “final answer.”

It would be nice if we could get all the billions of unnecessary pork barrel spending OUT of any bailout bill. This is Congress taking advantage of taxpayers in order to save the banking system. This is not a time to fund billions in “pet projects” during an election year.

Congress and the media need to sell this idea to taxpayers in these more realistic financial terms and not just (incorrectly) paint it as a “tax payer bailout of Wall Street.”

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Because half of our country is obsessed with oil. No matter how many jobs alternative energy will create, no matter how much less we’d spend at the pump, no matter how much less we’d spend on oil subsidies, it all comes down to the money they THINK that they would have to spend to see alternative energy come to fruition on a national scale. They falsely believe that big oil is just an example of the free market at work, and that if alternative energy were viable it, too, would just go national privately, and not through subsidies.

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Entry level positions and the schooling that it takes to get these just opens the door to a job. Most of these kinds of jobs either require experience, which you will get in an entry level job, or higher education AND experience.
Unfortunately, no one ever uses all the things they learned in school. It would be shortsighted to think that if you learn all that, that you would use it. You would have to work for several different companies because none of them is going to do everything listed.

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Simple. No.

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Except lots of other countries have this resource. So many, in fact, that we actually import natgas, because it is cheaper than producing in domestically.

Oil isn’t important anymore? You may be prescient in that remark, but I think oil is, and will unfortunately continue to be economically dominant for at least 20 more years. Likely much longer.

Government bureaucracy is fracking it up (pun fully appreciated!)? Because the land that private companies want to f*** up is government owned (remember, the government bought the Louisiana Purchase, annexed through was the Mexican Cession, and bought Alaska). If the companies want to exploit natgas, then they need to invest in the cleanup of the land at the closure of contracts, something the oil and gas folks have made sure the “bureaucracy” will forever more watch closely. It is the industry that f***ed up for itself, having no respect, like a bad renter at a rental agency turning in a house uncleaned, and wondering why they have a hard time renting the next time.

I didn’t bother reading the article. I generally agree with the sentiment of what you are saying, just not the specifics.

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Leave. That’s the best course of action. Leave.
Given that you’re a great driver, can think on the go, and doesn’t care if you break every traffic rule on the books to get away. Even if that means running over a few people. And shooting others who attempted to car jack you, and hitting other vehicles that tried to blockade you. And yes, running from the cops.
Go out to woods, the forest, or wherever else that’s not full of people.

I live in the Los Angeles Metro, home to 13 million people. My plan is to leave. After stocking up on some goodies and picking up a few more people.

–Locally–
food-
freeze-dried, (military) MREs, canned goods, and fresh if possible
water-
those 2.5 gallon plastic tanks at stores, plus a few 55 gallon drums. Don’t need much, there’s water where we’re going
shelter-
first 3-5 days staying locally- IKEA or a local high school.
Plan-
the first couple days we get everyone groups together, acquire weapons, pool resources, and obtain supplies. Food, water, shelter, guns/ammo, munitions, vehicles, etc. Prepare for he big move out.

–Move Out–
get my group several large trucks, SUVs, 4x4s, and some nice fast cars.
Need a tanker of gas & propane too
some RVs (temporary shelter),
there are 14 known routes to safety, I make a few more once all the lead vehicles have been retrofitted for smashing things.
The route to safety averages 60 miles to the foothills, 30 more to the place in the mountains.
We’d mostly go by freeway if possible, concrete lined drainage canals, greenbelts, sidewalks, and shopping places an alternative driving surface. Worst comes to worst, we can always make it thru parks, people’s backyards/front yards, or sparely built up areas, smashing thru buildings if needed.
We’d go heavily armed, more so than regular civilians because me & my friends have contacts with the underground to provide any weapons we need.

The safe place has been checked out thoroughly, defensive plans made, local resources evaluated, basically we go out there and set up fort. There’s only one road thru it, its 2 lanes, very windy, its very defensible.
Its more than 30 miles to the nearest house or community, very remote. In the days following we’ll be bringing up solar cells and lights, and all amenities of modern life up there. Its also 5200 feet in elevation, good vantage point for the whole city below, and the road is mostly uphill, both zombies & regular people just can’t make it up there in a day or two. Without vehicles at the very least its a 3 day trip!

Up there we can farm for food, manufacture what we need with raw materials trucked up, there’s plenty of raw materials existing- stone, rocks, trees for shelter, wood for burning, big lake for water, it does snow & rain regularly so there’s water to replenish water we use.

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Urban planning must be done by thinking about the future . Helps people to live a confortable life

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I know. It’s absolutely retarded that we’re helping people in Africa yet we have a TON of poverty here in the united states .

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Ya. If its environmental friendly