Legislatively Adopted Performance Measures, 2005-07
(View as HTML with Google, search term highlighted)
Agency Mission: The Mission Of The ODOE Is To Ensure Oregon Has An Adequate Supply Of Reliable And Affordable Energy And Is Safe From Nuclear Contamination, By Helping Oregonians Save Energy, Develop Clean Energy Resources, Promote Renewable Energy And Clean Up Nuclear Waste.
Coming in a close second is...
OBM #70 - Percent of Oregonians who commute during peak hours by means other than a single occupancy vehicle.
I know that I view people who drive to work to be as big a threat, if not bigger, than nuclear contamination. And who among us wouldn't tolerate some rolling blackouts if ODOE needs to spend some money and manpower getting people out of their cars?
In the spirit of liberal conspiracies (Katrina, Halliburton, etc) I am starting to think that Kulongoski is part of a plan to tax and regulate business out of Oregon simply to keep people from having somewhere to drive during peak commute hours.
NOTE: using my Google search term site:oregon.gov "single occupancy" yields the same thing over and over: the folks in government are desperate to stop you from driving to work!
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Off Topic: Q: What part of illegal don't they understand? A: All of it!
Q: What part of "cutting off employers' supply to low-skilled, currently undocumented, immigrant labor will sink the economy" don't nativists understand?
A: All of it.
Q: What does GOP stand for?
A: Gay Organization of Pedophiles.
Hey, look on the bright side. Now Repubs are a shoe-in for the coveted NAMBLA vote!
Anon 1:07,
Grow up.
Daniel,
I use to enjoy the debate on this blog but you got some real losers wanting to post now. So much for intelligent debates.
I want a Nuclear Powered SUV.
Then the greenies really can lump my driving habits in with the nuclear power debate.
Well, anybody that knows just a little bit about things knows that nuclear power is one of the cleanest energy-production methods (obviously, solar is cleaner in the long run, but the production of the electronic components needed to produce enough solar panels to produce the same power as a nuclear power plant is quite poluding). As for single ocupancy commuting, America is producing somewhere around 30% of the world's carbon monoxide emision. 30%!! All other countries in the world are suffering the consequences of american excesive driving and excesively big cars. I personally find that not only irrespectful to human kind, but just plain embarrasing. It's about time to put a stop to that.
SG
PS.: El razonador, glad to see you're still around. Your posts on "You hate me..." were fantastic.
I work for the State of Oregon and I drive all over the goddamned state. Idiots. If I didn't drive all over the place, they'd have big problems, but they don't want to tell you about that.
maybe we should start a business called "rent a passenger".
I remember a few years ago our company had a manditory attendance meeting (the company would be fined if less than 70% of employees showed up) on bicycle commuting forced on us by the City of Portland. We were in the Lloyd district and the presenter came from the Portland building. Being a smartass with a low tolerance for BS, I asked him how he got to this meeting - city owned automobile. No MAX, no bike - car.
El Razonador,
Very poignant and insightful. And the LA Times article hit the nail on the head. It is true that the global economy as a whole is exerting far more pressure on our American economy than probably any other one factor. The benefits to consumers is generally lower prices for goods. But, with price competition comes a squeeze in the labour market. The sad realisation anymore is that the US is not as much of an economically viable provider of labour jobs as it once was. Our biggest products and greatest exports, I would hazard to guess, are culture, brands and ideas. And you can't make those in a factory.
You might find this article on immigration from Business Week interesting:
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/apr2006/pi20060407_072803.htm
Stop by my site, if you like, and leave a brilliant comment! I love good civil discourse.
El Razon- I believe this is the link you want. In order to link it to your post type:
(a href=" http://www.latimes.com/news/
nationworld/world/la-fi-immigecon
1oct01,1,2312516.story?ctrack=1
&cset=true">link(/a)
Note: the parentheses are actually < and > arrows but if I typed them in here you would not be able to see the actual link, just the word link in a different color.
I usually hilite the web address and copy it in after the (a href="____web url__, then " and >.
The blog will usually tell you when you did something wrong. For me it is usually that I forgot a " mark either before or after the URL.
The word or group of words between > and (/a) will change colors on the post and be the link to your reference page.
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