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DrStrange
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IMHO CT isn't so much hostile to industrial development as it is deaf, dumb and blind to the need for sensible industrial development. That and they always want to pave over what's left of our farmland, woodlands and wetlands to put up industrial parks in the middle of nowhere.
There are quite a few blighted properties in the middle of CT's cities that could be bought for a song to develop industry [would it be totally insane to suggest unused or underutilized old industrial sites?!]. Those properties already have city water, city sewers etc. They also would be convenient to major highways and, dare I say it, railroads. The reason CT doesn't put industry in these places is that they're trying to build luxury condos, hotels, sports facilities and convention centers there. These end up costing the state and the towns money instead of bringing in tax revenue. These folks need to stop asking why all the good industrial jobs left and look in the mirror.
I've lived here almost 40 years [lived in NYC area when I was a kid], but I'm seriously beginning to lose patience with the local bass-ackwardness in regard to planning much of any kind of development.
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|  Connecticut is instituting a cap and trade system for our electric power generation stations this October. Electric bills may go up considerably. Environmentalists waddle about, referring to our power plants as the filthy five, or sooty six.
The New Haven Environmental Justice Network is a fine example of how hostile our state is to electrical power generation - »www.environmental-justice.org/nh···cts.html
In the above link, look for the filthy five or the sooty six. These are fossil fuel electrical power stations, which produce a lot of the power our state requires. The people at the New Haven Environmental Justice Network want to get rid of them, or to invest billions and create something which is impossible, a power plant which produces no output at all but electricity. No nuclear waste, no CO2, nothing else.
Our legislature listens to these nuts, and passes cap and trade legislation. We can expect our electrical rates skyrocket as this policy is implemented.
Won't it be grand to pay a few grand for a $200 electric bill every month, knowing that somewhere someone put up a windmill with your spare change? In Connecticut, our government calls this progress.
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| Don't forget, we're all enjoying high gas prices nationwide from the EPA mandated use of "seasonal blends". So now too few, old refineries have to switch over every so often to make different "blends" of gasoline. I'm sure this gives the environuts a warm and fuzzy feeling. A mind boggling number of blends probably reminds them of going to Starbucks and ordering a complicated cafinated beverage. I'm more of D&D simpleton myself, but that's besides the point.
Furthermore, when we dropped the disastrous additive known as MTBE (because the EPA found out it did nasty things to ground water) we switched to ethanol. With the current state of corn prices (mostly due to the ethanol hoopla) the price of that went up. Ethanol has a funny habit of causing you to get worse gas mileage. I've never figured out the logic of a marginally "cleaner" burning product....but it requires you to use more of it. Isn't that what they call a zero sum game?
Anyways, as of now, crude is trading at $97.40 a barrel...and Ike did little to no damage to refineries. The prices jumped up 10+ cents this weekend. Something tells me I won't be seeing a 10+ cent drop on my ride home this evening.
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