re: #484 Jetpilot1101

The alarmist camp never addresses the energy issues, they only want to impose restrictions on what we are currently using and tax us to death so we don’t use as much. Case in point, in Cape Cod an organization called Cape Wind wants to put up a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. You would think that liberals like Kennedy and Kerry would support this but you’d be wrong. These Turbines may affect their view from their oceanfront homes so they are against it. Sure they couch their opposition in the form of arguments like “it will ruin the sound” or “it will damage the fishing industry” but to me it just looks like the NIMBY principle gone awry. Solution: we’re putting wind turbines up in the restricted area of Otis ANG base and telling them to pound sand.

BTW, Duval Patrick, our esteemed governor, wants to not only raise the gas tax by 27 cents but tax motorist from MA per mile and add tolls at the RI/MA border.

Certainly they do, they are informed by books like E.F. Schumacher’s “Small is Beautiful”, energy itself is the evil, not the pollution that it creates. They’ve solution-jumped in a problem they don’t fully understand in order to rob 3rd world countries of the ability to become middle class.

It’s certain that coal is bad, it’s certain that burning carbon based fuel, whether it’s ethanol or oil, is bad due to the pollution it introduces. They want to force an outcome by crushing the poor of the world.

The better course is to gradually ensure that all energy sources become cleaner, and to groom the world off of burning hydrocarbons. They are too valuable to burn at the end of the day.