Marcy must have been thrown off since she called the Fed counterfeiters last week and banks raping citizens a couple months ago. She apparently is proposing a tunnel to Canada in a meeting in the eastern part of the district. The Lorain Morning Journal is calling Marcy's idea for a tunnel to Canada wacky although they are giving her credit for brainstroming jobs. Has one ever wondered why Marcy does not have a serious leadership position in Washington after her time there?
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The improbable idea of building a tunnel under Lake Erie from Ohio to Canada was brainstormed by Rep. Marcy Kaptur last week at a Business/Government Summit in Erie County.
Expect to see this "chunnel" right after former Gov. Jim Rhodes' "Bridge to Canada" opens for business.
The tunnel is just plain wacky, but Kaptur and her staff are right to brainstorm ideas that can attract businesses and jobs into her 9th Congressional District. The district includes southern and western Lorain County.
http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2009/06/28/opinion/mj1249639.txt
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You only dig a tunnel when there's a need. There's no need. What need to get to Canada that already exists, is already met with the Ambassador Bridge.
Call this Kaptur's TUNNEL TO NOWHERE:
http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2009/06/28/opinion/mj1249639.txt
What need to get to Canada that already exists, is already met with the Ambassador Bridge.
but isnt there already a tunnel?
Hey, that's right, thanks for reminding me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%E2%80%93Windsor_Tunnel
On top of that, there must be another bridge or something that the trains use, since I recall boarding a train to Toronto in Detroit.
Also, from the article I posted:
«Kaptur is serious about developing an alternative energy corridor along the Ohio Turnpike. The jobs created from building, operating and maintaining wind turbines and solar panel facilities along the highway could be a great economic boost. Such a green power strip would attract a new generation of entrepreneurs. The turnpike could become as economically important to producing electricity from the wind and sun as it has been to commerce by moving cars and trucks for the past half century.»
Well, that really sounds like a full-time job for her to keep track of, and it can ONLY produce the greatest benefits in the least amount of time. But I don't see JACK SH*T done around that turnpike. Wind turbines are on the market NOW. So why aren't they being installed NOW?
Note that these wind turbines are also revenue generators. When they operate, they create CREDITS inside a set of accounting systems. Knowing that, their business case can be made IMMEDIATELY, with bonds issued by the State of Ohio to cover their purchase and installation. So again: Why aren't they being installed NOW?
I totally agree. By putting them up along the turnpike they just keep an eyesore with an eyesore. Only we get more benefits.
The technology for them is there. I know some are worried about the birds. To that I say that my fan has a screen preventing kids from putting their hands in it. What's the difference.
I further believe we should align the maumee river with the windmills. By putting on them the red and green navigation lights they would serve just as the electric towers that do the same job do. Again - multipurpose the eyesores without expanding into new areas.
MikeyA
We kill a billion birds each year in the world from our clear windows. Another 500 million are slain by our pets. I'm just not concerned about birds due to how many we slay each year from our civilization:
http://www.sibleyguides.com/mortality.htm
If we must mollify the treehuggers, we can install vertical windmills, which have a far lower kill rate for birds, albeit suffering a lower energy efficiency.