The Wrong Green
- Mayor Richard Daley vowed six years ago to make Chicago a leader in emerging efforts to fight global warming, but city government is churning out more heat-trapping pollution every year.
- The city pledged in 2001 to meet the target by planting green roofs, buying renewable power and rehabbing buildings to make them more energy-efficient, among other steps. Yet the city's emissions of global warming pollution have soared since then, according to records that the Tribune obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
In an effort to make the City more "green," the mayor spearheaded all of these initiatives and ended up NOT reducing emissions. Emissions have climbed. It would seem that the only people seeing any "green" benefits are the connected construction companies building rooftop gardens and various labor unions rewiring and rehabbing buildings.
How about an investigation on that?
How about an investigation on that?
Labels: city politics, media
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
12 Comments:
And this surprises you because.............
Green? ha ha Not in my area.
Yet these dumb bugs are in Clearing now. Yesterday I spotted a Cicada wearing a flak jacket!!
LOL! there are not enough agents in the entire country with all the criminals that are elected in chicago! How about daley showing us what he means by green? get rid of your gas hog cars and but small hybrid cars! that would be a start! how about getting rid of the big fleet of vehicles you have? another first! how about mayor you resign that would save us BILLIONS in phony deals now that would save a lot of "GREEN"!
......AND did you know that Ethanol is worse on mileage than regular gasoline,yes it is. It also harms your enging because it holds water and that induces rust inside of your tank and engine block. The environmentalists are full of crap,there is no global warming and there is no oil shortage either. They are the same socialist treehuggers that invaded the school system after the 1960's and polluted our kids brains with psychobabble. What we need is more refineries now,not later, and to drill our own oil. Thoes of you who have purchased a Prius or other similar car may think you have gotten one over on the gas companies and the outrageous taxes we are now paying at the pump, you may have for now but wait until you have to replace a battery pack(they don't last forever) and the cost will be about a third of your car,don't forget about the environmental fee for battery disposal either.Senator Feinstein says when the Chineese vehicle manufacturers are told to produce fuel efficient cars by thier govornment, they don't question it, they just do it. China,Senator is a communist country who's economy is not based on a free market. Our economy is and people decide what they want to buy based on needs and cost(if they are wise) or on just plain old want.Feinstein is just another socialist elitist who would see us in ruin. Illinois is now chock full of socialists; Durbin,Obama,Stroger,the mayor of chicago,all of the aldermen of the city of chicago and a host of others are all socialist elitists who prefer to mandate law rather than put it up for a vote,they make Californian polititians look conservative.These people are dangerous to the American way of life, they think wrong at least when it comes to you and me (the unwashed masses) but the laws they dictate do not apply to them.Necessity is the mother of invention, let the market decide what will be the next round of vehicles,hell I want a vehicle that runs on water but it ain't here yet and you can't mandate it,but if it ever gets here I garuntee that they will tax the hell out of water too,and for what?To fund thier social programs that keep the sheep voting for them.Environmentalism is nothing more than rehashed socialism.They would have you ride a moped or take thier broken mass transit to work everyday which is neither practical or reasonable.All of our mass transit outfits are crying broke on the news and claim to be updating thier equipment to help the environment.Nonsence, it's a racket just like every other outfit in this city/state.Ask yourself, why are we paying so much for everything and getting so litte?Then remember who you voted for.
You mean to tell me all those 10's of millions of dollars spent on those stupid ass flower pots that block Emergency Vehicle alernate routes and cause extreme traffic delay and not only reduce response time but also endanger drivers by creating terrible blind spots didn't work?
THE ONLY GREEN HERE IN THE CITY IS THE GREEN MONEY THAT LINES MAYOR DALEY'S POCKET FROM HIM NEVER PAYING THE POLICE ANY MONEY.
I love all the talk about the impending doom over global warming. These are the same scientists who told us in the early 70's that a new ice age was coming. Its all liberal B.S. Too much emissions were going to cause the sun to be blocked, now they are heating up the planet. I do not agree with Bush on immigration but there is no way I would ever vote for a democrat. They do not have the public's best interests at heart. They like to lord over the people to make them selves feel important and blame others for problems they cause. A Party of cowards.
re: 2:13 pm
Absolutely correct.
green that is gore's unproven thought! science has proven that green is bullshit global warming happens naturally! like the one resonse satted about the pruis but even more a hummer h3 gets less mileage but will last 300K miles a prius 100K and the cost to make the battery packs along with the environmental damage would be a lot more than a H3!
"I do not agree with Bush on immigration but there is no way I would ever vote for a democrat. They do not have the public's best interests at heart. They like to lord over the people to make them selves feel important and blame others for problems they cause. A Party of cowards.'
Yeah not unlike a party that pushed thru Tort reform, a Patriot act aimed @ rolling back rights guaranteed by the Constitution, started a unilateral invasion of a Sovereign nation, squandered 100 of Billions of Dollars all in the name of bolstering the Corporate bottom line.
Last but not least offered a Amnesty give away to illegal aliens to reward them&(US CORPORATIONS) for criminal conduct. OK Keep voting Republican it's more than apparent they have the Middle Class best interests @ Heart.
Speaking of flower pots... Since they all have sprinkler systems installed in them and use hundereds of thousands of gallons of water to water the floweres/ trees/ wild grass... Why wouldn't maintenace free/ drought tollerent stuff be used.(since we had to have them anyways) Also why is it at least once a week Cicero Av (right by Midway airport) is shut down one lane of traffic in each direction IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY causing huge traffic jams. So workers can blow leaves and such out of the flower pots onto the street and power wash the cement. I would like to know the genius of that one. They should be cleaning up the garbage under the bridge at the stevenson exp and Cicero instead.
Anonymous said...
Speaking of flower pots... Since they all have sprinkler systems installed in them and use hundereds of thousands of gallons of water to water the floweres/ trees/ wild grass... Why wouldn't maintenace free/ drought tollerent stuff be used.(since we had to have them anyways) Also why is it at least once a week Cicero Av (right by Midway airport) is shut down one lane of traffic in each direction IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY causing huge traffic jams. So workers can blow leaves and such out of the flower pots onto the street and power wash the cement. I would like to know the genius of that one. They should be cleaning up the garbage under the bridge at the stevenson exp and Cicero instead.
6/19/2007 11:47:00 PM
the contract for that is "christy webber" landscaping dick mells the multi-millionaire alderclown, and father of blagos wife's family! go dick mell go! see him get payoffs! go dick go! see dick run!@ oh no here come the feds! bye dick bye! grab rod to! bye dick and rod!
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