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- bringinSXEback, on 04/30/2009, -3/+29Oregon FTW
- Kumah, on 04/30/2009, -0/+17OREGON, ***** YEAH
- rainierbeer, on 04/30/2009, -1/+14Now if we could just beat the Rockets.
- Barackalypse, on 04/30/2009, -0/+10Well, for starters you missed the fact that a $1 billion power plant has greater power output per unit of emission than a $3,000 internal combustion engine. Also, you can position the power plant downwind of the major population centers whereas automobile emmissions are distributed in much more direct proportion to the population.
- niccha, on 04/30/2009, -2/+12That's just Oregon laid back. You start to appreciate it if you spend enough time out here.
- paschutt, on 04/30/2009, -0/+9yeah...but you'll still have to wait for someone to come out and plug it in for you
- deadpool271982, on 04/30/2009, -3/+12They do NOT pump sewage into the Pacific Ocean!
They pump it into the Willamette River. - rooba, on 04/30/2009, -0/+9You also missed the fact that all of Portland's charging stations are powered from renewable generation, like hydro and wind.
- JDoorjam, on 04/30/2009, -0/+9Wow, the Mayor of Portland comes off as really insecure.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -1/+9...to the columbia river?
- cricketsymphony, on 04/30/2009, -0/+8source please
- Aadain, on 04/30/2009, -1/+9He's been under attack since day one due to a sex scandal. All of his supporters have turned into his enemies, so he has like no friends in any room he walks into. You'd become pretty insecure having to live with that too.
- FermatSelf, on 04/30/2009, -0/+7Yes, you missed something. Specifically 10 seconds of the video starting at 2:09 where they state that the charging stations use only green power.
- olie_baba, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6*fist in the air*...In a Colbert voice: "PPOOORRRTTTLLLAAANNDDD?!"
- york2600, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6Big pipe project 1 is done. Second 1/2 is being finished. One the upside we have a combined sewage / storm water system which means we treat everything so we're not dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of pesticides, motor oil, and soap into the waterways.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5Which leads...
- palehorse864, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5Not if the stonecutters have anything to say about it!
- matlock, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5If we could only find a way to run cars off of Blazermania!
- Greengoo, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
WE DOOOOOOOOO - york2600, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4I'm about as liberal as it gets but he's just not impressing me. We're in a giant debt here in Portland (and Oregon in general) and this city seems like it just doesn't care. They keep wasting money on stupid things like solar toilets and don't fix the big issues like the massive number of homeless in Portland.
- edcrosay, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Keep it down. Californians might be listening.
- gnash, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3For spelling not so much...
'Cuse me as I rock down to Elecric Avenue. - rainierbeer, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Yes, there are sewer overflows during large storm events but there is a project underway (the big pipe project) to fix that for years to come.
- ehalasey, on 04/30/2009, -2/+5Check it out, guys! Two mayors are publicly measuring their dicks!
- merreborn, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Excuse me if I'm unstirred by announcements of new charging stations.
We've had charging stations around the SF bay area since (before?) the EV1 -- and that was 13 years ago. The things never get used. They obviously haven't done much to spur electric vehicle adoption.
And it's not like we don't love our "green" cars around here. You can't walk a block without tripping over a hybrid, and I see a Smart almost every day. But electrics are nowhere to be seen -- with the exception of a Tesla once a month or so. If this is going to work anywhere in the country, it's right here. But well over a decade in, we've gotten nowhere. - Broadband, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Go P-Town!
- niccha, on 04/30/2009, -1/+4You know what's funny though? As a result, all of his enemies have turned into his supporters... So it's a wash.
These things are always so blown out of proportion. - SilicoSurfer, on 04/29/2009, -0/+3Here is the response from San Francisco: http://digg.com/environment/San_Francisco_We_re_Go ...
- woofers07, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Keep the faith my friend, we'll know in about 24 hrs.
- Elranzer, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Portland > San Francisco
Except in smug... - Barackalypse, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2You sort of inadvertently point out the problem with this, we don't know which technology is going to win, so we're potentially wasting money building early infrastructure for a technology that may be suboptimal.
- Barackalypse, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2No, because in this case its the cities competing, so the taxpayers lose.
- rif42, on 05/07/2009, -0/+2@Elranzer
And California is Oregon's Mexico. - palehorse864, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Holy crap, Police Academy 8 crumbled. The stonecutters must really be gone. Electric cars, Steve Guttenberg's career gone? I expect to see martians revealed soon.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2EV charging stations will enable motorists whose caves are not connected to the power grid to drive around in electric vehicles.
- leland1, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Here's a direct link to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's response of to Portland Mayor Sam Adams' comments on leading the country in Electric Vehicles (the entire video, Cities and Time, is 1:21:24) Click on Chapter 10 underneath the video window (2min 29 sec) for the response:
http://fora.tv/2009/04/09/San_Francisco_Mayor_Gavi ... - Elranzer, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Oregon is California's Canada.
- adamchristopher, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Tonight we will.
- inverselogic, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Ducks baby =)
- maqikelefant, on 04/30/2009, -0/+21,2,3,4, I declare a green thumb war!
- edcrosay, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2***** Blazers bitch!
- Aadain, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2I agree york2600. I'm down in Wilsonville so he's not my mayor, but we love Portland and have really been unhappy with how the city wants to spend all this money to bring in MLS and build a new stadium for the AAA baseball time. Why spend all this money on stupid stuff when we have real problems?
- Elranzer, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1That would be Provincetown...
- MrSlumberjack, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Wrong Portland.
- Checkerd, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Beavers baby =)
- niccha, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Saw that. Doh!
- comedianX, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Do you live in Oregon Barackalypse? If you did, you would know that we get most of our energy from Hydro and we are building wind turbines to supplement that.
- illepic, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1We all win here.
- Virgule, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Well.. Im not sure about that.. you've got to use electricity to produce the hydrogen in the first place then you use it to... produce electricity?
- MajorBriggs, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1That goes for proponents of the Metric System and detractors of Steve Guttenberg as well!
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