"Shrub" has a printing press fred On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 09:36 US/Eastern, Appal Energy wrote:
>> But they said the union leaders decided to delay sending the >> letter because they were waiting for several of the nation's largest >> environmental groups to sign on. > > Funny that. Environmental groups and so inclined people have been > waiting > for a quarter of a century for the unions to sign. > > I wonder how it is that now the argument has substance and merit, yet > during > the preceding decades it was riddled and torpedoed every step of the > way by > the same unions and trade groups? > > Who says that job security, squeezing the last drop of oil out of the > Earth > and envrionmentalism can't go hand in hand? > > I suppose that everyone's supposed to be "adult" about things now and > put > the greater good before all else, as if the pantywaste attitudes of > those > who kept and continue stalling environmental gains are something above > juvenile and petty self interest. > > I know..... "get over it," .....right? > > "Forgive and forget" is the mantra for the new millenium. > > Wonder where Shrub is gonna' get that 300 billion to secure the union > and > trades votes, especially after having just given it all away. > > Todd Swearingen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > Cc: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:37 PM > Subject: [biofuel] Unions Back Research Plan for Energy > > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/national/06LABO.html >> >> Unions Back Research Plan for Energy >> By STEVEN GREENHOUSE >> >> Ten labor unions, including the steelworkers and auto workers, urged >> presidential candidates yesterday to back a 10-year, $300 billion >> research plan that would promote energy efficiency, reduce dependence >> on foreign oil and preserve manufacturing jobs. >> >> Labor leaders said the plan, called the Apollo Project, would foster >> energy independence by promoting hybrid and hydrogen cars and >> energy-efficient factories and appliances. Supporters said the >> project would help make the United States the leader in these areas >> and would help preserve factory jobs after the nation had lost more >> than two million manufacturing jobs in the past two years. >> >> The plan's backers said they hoped it would improve ties between >> labor and the environmental movement, groups that have clashed in >> recent years on issues like emissions standards and energy >> exploration. >> >> "We believe this plan can create good manufacturing jobs, good >> construction jobs, can improve the public infrastructure, can be good >> for the environment and can reduce our dependence on foreign energy," >> Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, said at >> a news conference. >> >> The plan is also backed by the United Mine Workers, the Service >> Employees International Union, the International Association of >> Machinists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. >> >> Several supporters said that labor leaders had planned to send a >> letter yesterday to Democratic presidential candidates and President >> Bush. But they said the union leaders decided to delay sending the >> letter because they were waiting for several of the nation's largest >> environmental groups to sign on. >> >> "We are very, very excited," said Carl Pope, executive director of >> the Sierra Club, which is considering whether to support the plan. >> "It is not that any of these ideas are radically new. What is >> radically different is the commitment on the part of a huge segment >> of American organized labor to organize the rebuilding of blue-collar >> America around modern environmentalism and sound energy technology." >> >> The plan calls for more financing for high-speed rail and fuel-cell >> technology, for building pipelines and storage facilities to support >> hydrogen-powered cars and for expanding the use of solar and wind >> power. >> >> The steelworkers union and the Institute for America's Future, a new >> liberal research center, which helped develop the plan, distributed >> polling data showing that the plan had wide support in Pennsylvania >> and several Midwestern swing states that have lost hundreds of >> thousands of manufacturing jobs. Supporters said they hoped the poll >> numbers would persuade presidential candidates to embrace the plan, >> although privately some acknowledged that candidates might balk at >> its $300 billion price tag. >> >> A poll commissioned by the steelworkers union found that in >> Pennsylvania 73 percent of respondents backed the plan, including >> more than 80 percent of Democratic men without college educations, an >> important group of swing voters. This group favors re-electing >> President Bush by 44 percent to 41 percent, the poll found. The >> survey of 400 likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus >> five percentage points. >> >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Biofuels list archives: >> http://archive.nnytech.net/ >> >> Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >> To unsubscribe, send an email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Your use of Yahoo! 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