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To: Road Walker who wrote (22684)	8/13/2010 6:25:13 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

Right, just 97% are good. They tell you a hell of a lot more than that. They tell you to jump, and you jump... 10,000 time a day. Get over it. You are more disciplined than a worker ant in an ant colony. Your precious freedom is an illusion. You spend your entire day trying NOT to break regulations. Driving to work you obey 1000 regulation like a scared little kid. We should all give up on the idea or illusion of freedom like you have and find happiness in the ant colony. There's a convincing argument. China is pretty unregulated compared to most places What are you thinking??? The lack of any environmental controls. Or safety regs. The locking of factory doors. They are far less regulated than I think is appropriate. but Zimbabwe which is really highly regulated ...... well, they just have bad regulations. More obtusity. Regulation doesn't work with blatant corruption. Obviously. Corruption is anti-regulation; the opposite. Oh, Zimbabwe's regs are good after all - or probably 97% of them .... its just the corruption. Frankly in countries like that corruption is a good thing. A way around the unscalable wall. Here's some vital regulations at work making us prosperous: .......... Louisiana Monks face jail time for selling hand-made funeral caskets Posted by John Schulenburg on Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:26 AM Another example of economic protectionism by the federal government. Institute For Justice: Under Louisiana law, it is a crime for anyone but a licensed funeral director to sell “funeral merchandise,” which includes caskets. To sell caskets legally, the monks would have to abandon their calling for one full year to apprentice at a licensed funeral home, learn unnecessary skills and take a funeral industry test. They would also have to convert their monastery into a “funeral establishment” by, among other things, installing equipment for embalming human remains. The monks face crippling fines and up to 180 days in jail. Here are the details of the case from the Institute of Justice website. gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (22684)	8/16/2010 11:43:48 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

The Birth of a U.S. Wind Power Manufacturing Industry By Herman K Trabish, greentechmedia.com August 15, 2010 \| 10:30 am Due to transport costs, the biggest, heaviest components were the first to be made domestically. Twenty U.S. facilities presently manufacture utility-scale turbine towers. Fourteen have come online since 2005 and eight more have recently been announced. Thirteen U.S. facilities presently make turbine blades, nine of which came online since 2005. Three are announced. The second wave of expansion was in the assembly of the nacelle, the heart and brain of a wind turbine. The majority of U.S. nacelles are assembled at eight domestic facilities. There are eight more such facilities in planning stages. Most recently, an expansion in the manufacture of the highly engineered mechanical and electrical nacelle internals has begun. Each wave of expansion swept in a supply chain of nuts, bolts, grease and adhesives makers. By 2009, component manufacturing had become the biggest growth sub-sector. The three major nacelle internals are gearboxes, generators and drives. The first U.S. facility dedicated to such manufacturing, Winergy Drive Systems in Elgin, Illinois, came online in 2009. Among the many facilities in planning stages, Germany’s internationally recognized mechanical system maker ZF announced a contract with Vestas, the world’s biggest turbine manufacturer, to provide gearboxes from a Gainesville, Georgia, facility now under construction. The U.S.’s wind manufacturing ecosystem extends from coast to coast and border to border. There are online or planned facilities in rust belt states like Michigan and Ohio, Midwest states like Kansas and Iowa, where youthful rural populations now have an alternative to moving to urban centers for opportunity, and in Southern states like Texas and Arkansas, where manual labor now has an alternative to unemployment. An example of the potential to revitalize U.S. manufacturing is the urgent need to develop new domestic foundry capacity for casting utility-scale turbine parts. Few existing foundries are up to the demands of casting mainframes, hubs, rotor shafts and other parts that can weigh 30 tons or more. This is expected to be a huge investment opportunity. But no such foundry capacity expansion has so far been undertaken, according to AWEA, because federal policy has failed to provide a long-term signal warranting the needed substantial investment. AWEA has, for many years and particularly since President Obama came to office, pushed hard for such a long-term policy signal in the form of a national Renewable Electricity Standard that would require regulated U.S. utilities to obtain a significant portion of their power from renewable sources by 2020 or 2025. The $2.3 billion in Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits (48C credits) in the 2009 Recovery Act benefited 183 projects and leveraged $5.4 billion in private investment but was expended. The Obama administration requested that Congress budget $5 billion to extend the program but there has been no action on the measure. “It’s a strong incentive,” an AWEA spokesperson pointed out, but “to be effective manufacturing incentives need to be coupled with a stable, long-term market and even strong programs like 48C can’t revitalize the sector if we don’t create a market. That is where the RES comes in, as it drives the market and creates certainty.” wired.com