Comments by Some_Guy_in_Salcha
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Posted on September 10 at 8:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Although I do not subscribe to the fine Alaskan tradition of the "he got something I didn't whine" it was illuminating to see all the whining, sniveling, and gnashing of teeth when this article came out in the Anchorage Daily News yesterday. (Where one can often read tomorrows News Miner today, heh heh) So now it is only three times more expensive to heat here. (note lack of sympathy)
What is noteable, is that Enstar has to go through the RCA since they are a regulated utility. Of course an absloute monopoly is not a regulated utility. Regulating heating oil though would probably not help, since the government here never met a foreign or lower-48 carpetbagger they wouldn't suck up to, and the RCA never denies a rate increase for anything. And they especially would not deny an increase to the state for the price of the royalty crude our heating oil comes from.
As others have pointed out, the timing in relationship to the near presence of winter, and the disbursement of the 1200 bucks is interesting. In dealing with the problem this way, that loveable gang of misfits in the legislature have told the energy companies and the DNR to charge whatever they want, as there will be no consequences.
As to the rising and falling of crude vs product, and the "work its way out of the system" argument. Note how quickly we were almost out of gasoline when Flint Hills had their mysterious "operational issue". Evidently things work their way through the system far faster than product price drops after crude price drops would indicate.
Posted on September 10 at 7:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
oops! I never claimed to be a typist! Wiseguy maybe...
Posted on September 10 at 7:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
With tounge in cheek...
Whereas The People's Democratic Republic of Alaska claims to own and manage absolutely everything from space to the center of the earth and every nonhuman denizen thereof...
And Whereas precendent in most places holds that parties who are engaged in animal husbandry of any kind are legally responsible for damamges that their animals may cause...
Therefore, The Peoples Democratic Republic of Alaska is probably liable for allowing its livestock, non-domestication notwithstanding, to run about unfettered on the public highways.
Posted on September 3 at 7:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Mr. Adasiak, the country began to to adopt such an approach back in the early seventies. Bad behavior has been on a meteoric rise ever since. All sorts of folks have gone through all kinds of privations over the years without deciding that it entitles them to steal, run drugs, and shoot people. Amazingly enough there is this thing called free will, and this other thing called responsibility. What we have been doing is telling people who act badly that there are all manner of excuses for it. We have removed the consequences for bad behavior.
There are two main causes here. One is idiotic irresponsible parents (who themselves probably had idiotic irresponsible parents) who will not take proper care in raising their kids. The other is a society that refuses to demonstrate that there are consequences for bad behavior. When a fourteen year old commits a crime, we hide it, and we hide the person who did it. If these little darlings got their photo in a story on the front page of the paper that advised folks not to let them any where near their homes and businesses and pointing out how they have brought shame on themselves and their family then they would have to face a little public disapprobation and would find out that this sort of thing is unacceptable. When we fail to do this, we insure that they will continue this behavior, as there is no real reason not to. If you have a twenty four year old gang banger running around you can bet any part of your anatomy you like that this behavior did not start at twenty one.
Posted on August 29 at 7:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
continued...
When several of us ordinary private interior land owners tried to get the state to address this...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game ignored us.
Governor Palin handed us off to her attorney general who told us we had no leg to stand on and that the board of game does not have to adhere to state law in formulating regulations.
The board of game blew us off completely.
"Representative" Harris never did a thing.
None of the native Corporations we contacted as fellow private landowners to try to get a bit more oopmh behind this ever had even the grace to respond.
Evidently many folks believe that a 30.06 round going 2800 feet per second will magically stop and fall on the ground the second it gets to the edge of the right of way. Don't worry about that gal working in her garden behind those trees. Don't worry about who might be in that adjacent house. Don't worry about the machinery parcked just out of sight. Just ignore those signs. Go ahead and disregard, endanger, and disrespect everyone. Your state government says its a good idea.
Posted on August 29 at 7:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope the native corporations that all ignored us when we were trying to get support for making it a game violation to shoot alongside or into posted private property have better luck with this than us stupid regular taxpaying private citizens had.
We have had our place shot into many times over the years, had gut piles left to draw bears, etc. No one is trying to stop a single hunter here. Most hunters are ethical, but there are enough that have no regard for another guy's place that it gets to be a dangerous problem.
Fish and Game officials constantly tell people that it is okay to shoot as long as they step off the pavement. Even though it is a Class A misdemeanor to discharge a firearm in a right of way.
Sec. 11.61.210. Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree.
(a) A person commits the crime of misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree if the person
(1) possesses on the person, or in the interior of a vehicle in which the person is present, a firearm when the person's physical or mental condition is impaired as a result of the introduction of an intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance into the person's body in circumstances other than described in AS 11.61.200 (a)(7);
(2) discharges a firearm from, on, or across a highway;
(3) discharges a firearm with reckless disregard for a risk of damage to property or a risk of physical injury to a person under circumstances other than those described in AS 11.61.195 (a)(3)(A);
(8)
(d) Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Title 11. CRIMINAL LAW
Chapter 11.61. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
(29) "highway" means a public road, ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY, street, alley, bridge, walk, trail, tunnel, path, or similar or related facility, as well as ferries and similar or related facilities;
Title 11. CRIMINAL LAW
Chapter 11.81. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 11.81.900. Definitions.
Posted on August 29 at 6:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
As far as I can tell, Harris represents Harris. I guess he and Whittaker couldn't figure out how to make themselves rich with the pipeline idea so now they want to glom onto 25 billion of our money for this goofy biomass to fuel idea. Talk about carrying coal to Newcastle. Maybe some time Salcha won't be represented by someone who lives 320 miles away. It's as though all of Fairbanks's reps lived in Anchorage.
On Interior Alaska politicians prepare for general election contests
Posted on August 24 at 7:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh yes and remember how the state allowed Koch Industries to weasel out of the requirement of the royalty contract to make road diesel in the interior? the estimate was about 100 megabucks to build the equipment.
Well, according to http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/arti...
Flint Hills Corpus Christi $250 mil. project for new
TX diesel desulfurization,
sulfur recovery unit. Construction
to last 18 months.
Nice to be the bum at the banquet isn't it?
On Slowdown at North Pole refinery leaves tanks dry in Interior Alaska
Posted on August 21 at 7:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
First...enough of this eminent domain stuff. Such a procedure has no place in a free society.
The use of the expression "operational issues" does sound a bit suspect. "we have a problem with a column." or "We have a problem with a control system." etc. might be a bit more believable.''
The other interesting point here is that we are always told when crude drops in price and fuel doesn't that "it takes a while to work its way through the supply chain." If the supply chain around here is so tight that a glitch at the refinery leaves fuel suppliers with dry tanks then that sort of puts the lie to that argument doesn't it?
Crude oil has come down over 20 percent, gasoline and diesel in the interior have come down around 2 percent.
Given the hijinks our glorious state government gets up to one might be forgiven for wondering how much baksheesh Koch paid the legislature and the officials at DNR for the "contract" they never fulfilled.
On Slowdown at North Pole refinery leaves tanks dry in Interior Alaska
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Posted on September 26 at 6:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
There is a solution to both pollution and energy cost problems in the interior that will help more than just the core of the Fairbanks area. The state owns vast reserves of natural gas on the slope. The oil companies routinely flare off a tremendous amount of it. Build a large combined cycle gas turbine/steam power plant on the slope and fuel it with the gas we already own, and which is now wasted. Run a powerline down the already existing and cleared haul road right of way. With the state providing the fuel that they usually allow the oil companies to waste from flare stacks, electricity could be generated at rates that would make electric heating a viable option. Also, once a backbone line is in place, lines could be run to some of the smaller communities in the northern interior that now rely on very expensive diesel generation for power. There is no net gain in emissions up north as the flares now use more than enough fuel to drive a large plant. There would be less thermal emission from a combined cycle plant than from a flare stack. Reasonably priced electric heat would knock down pollution levels in the Fairbanks area. The only difficult part of this is that it would require that the people who run this state actually do something for the citizens.
On Borough objects to federal air pollution timetable