RiverDog wrote:Well, that's not an option for me. The Democrats in this state are completely unacceptable to me, mostly due to their totally unreasonable approach to energy related issues, ie the carbon tax, breaching the LSRD's, dismissal of nuclear as an option, and a proposed wind farm a few miles from where I live that covers 120 square miles and has towers taller than the Space Needle of which 78% of the locals are opposed to, issues that directly affect my quality of life and my pocketbook.
There's also the issues of crime, homelessness, and drug abuse, problems that have exploded here on the Democrats' watch, and while they may not be completely responsible for all of those problems, they have no solutions for them, either. If I find a Republican candidate that isn't a Trump supporter, and the do exist, I'm voting for them, at least here locally.
So, while I can see myself voting for Biden again should Trump get the nomination, I will not be voting Democratic up and down the ballot.
Aseahawkfan wrote:The politics of environmental Armageddon are giving Democrats a free ticket to do whatever to "fix" the environment, while the government contracts to build wind farms and other renewable energy sources go to their buddies in big corporate businesses paid for by taxpayer money for our own "good." You wonder why I question this stuff at times, because I follow the money. This isn't all about our own "good." Environmental Armageddon politics is huge money for a lot of multibillion dollar companies that investors are making huge multiple growth on regardless if it is producing the desired effect to improve the environment.
Carbon taxes with this government approved carbon neutral rating is nothing more than illusionary government accounting. Read up on carbon taxes and how much BS they are. A pure game of corporate tax manipulation voted in by our government that doesn't actually reduce carbon emissions since companies can now just pay for the carbon they produce getting massive, taxpayer paid credits. What a scam the carbon tax rules are.
Besides those issues with the carbon tax of which you mentioned, I have several other problems.
First of all, I don't understand how they can pass such a carbon tax bill without a vote of the people when it is obviously a tax as the state government is getting revenue from the sale of these permits and the companies are passing that cost onto the consumer in the form of higher prices. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a duck. And where are they going to spend the revenue they're getting from this tax? If they would use the revenue to lower the gas tax, currently one of the highest in the nation, to compensate for it, then I could understand it. But that's not what they're doing.
Secondly, the tax hits the little guy and those that live in rural areas the hardest. A person living in Moses Lake doesn't have the option of taking public transit to work in order to avoid driving his car like someone living in the Puget Sound area does.
One of the biggest issues I have with the Dems locally is their proposal to breach the lower Snake River Dams (LSRD). No one has explained to me why it's necessary to breach those dams and leave the 4 downstream and the two upstream of them intact. They're all just as big, if not bigger, than any of the LSRD's. The two upstream don't even have a fish passage. The rationale for removing them, ie restoring salmon runs, has no scientific evidence that gives us a reasonable assurance that removing them will achieve that objective. The Fraser River, the next largest river system north of the Columbia/Snake, doesn't have any dams on it yet they, too, are experiencing a decline in salmon runs, so what is it that makes them think that breaching 4 dams in SE Washington will make a difference in the salmon population?
I'm a little unlike the others in my region in that I am not turned off by the aesthetics of the wind turbines, but the fact that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to them, nearly 80% on multiple surveys, that opinion should be honored. There is no environment need for them as almost no electrical energy in this region is produced by fossil fuels. Besides, why can't they put these wind farms offshore like they do in Holland?
It's issues like those which causes me to vote against Democrats unless the Republican alternative is a Trump-style candidate.