Thanks, but no thanks

THE STORY: The Department of Energy's plan for spending up to $1.3 billion on multiple smaller FutureGen-like clean-coal power plants is something Odessa's just not interested in.

THE LINK: http://www.oaoa.com/news/futuregen_16832___article.html/odessa_project.html#

THE POLL: Which would you prefer to see at the Penwell site?

>> Summit Power plant: 88 percent (7 votes).
>> Scaled-down FutureGen plant: 12 percent (1 votes).
>> Neither: 0 percent (0 votes).

YOUR COMMENTS:
>> "Gee, emotions ran high, people were ready to fight for the FutureGen Project. What happened? The Pie-in-the-sky project fizzled and sputtered like a wet firecracker. Would have cost nearly double initial projected costs. Now they want to break it up into a bunch of mini-FutureGens that nobody wants. Which only goes to show that with all the cities there are in the US, FutureGen only managed to find 4 who were willing to fight over their doomed project. The same project failed in Australia and it was destined to fail here. Hope that the folks in Spittoon, Illinois enjoy the "benefits" they reap from having poison gas stored beneath their feet. At least our city developers got a free meal and a party out of the deal. Why aren'twe looking at clean, environmentally friendly projects that will benefit the future generations of west Texans, why must we always seek out the quick buck that will destroy our land? The answer is greed, three piece suits and a country club membership are expensive, but don't worry you can always get the common man to pay the fare, just feed him enough fertilizer."
>> "now dragonrider you know if we get started over here those folks will start up posting things from 1776 and vague references to what Jefferson really meant while throwing some common law in from King George's reign.
"Since I welcome those ideas, I am gonna say it'll be lots more fun watching Sen Durbin argue with the present administration than it woulda been to watch Sen Cornyn agree with them.
"Besides, this new deal will have a lot more chances to aid the greedy three piece suits, lots more chances for local return on ‘investments'.
"giddyup"