An article in the newspaper got me steaming today. It was about how conservative USA (read Grover
Norquist and the Koch
brothers) are trying to stop the use of alternative energy and selling back
of home generated energy back to the power companies. Honestly, I think the newspaper was trying to
fill some space, since this appears to be old news. A simple search for Koch and renewable energy
or solar energy shows their opposition to it for at least the past two or three
years. Guess they don’t like the
government subsidies and the fact that there are laws requiring energy
companies to buy back the excess energy that is generated at home. I’m really nor that sure why they are against
renewable energy. Is it affecting their
income as share holders in energy firms?
Or is it a principle, in that, energy conservation has been championed
by more liberal thinkers and democrats, so it must automatically be bad and opposed? I am still confused why those people who want
to protect our children from a future deficit, have no problem in saddling
those same kids up with a warmer planet, more polluted air, energy shortages, rising
energy costs and a higher cost of living.
So I was still steaming during my lunchtime walk in the sun
(it was a great day to harvest solar energy).
It was abnormally chilly today, but it actually felt invigorating. Walking up the hill at the capitol I noticed
a saying on the Library of Virginia: “Reason
and free inquiry are the only free agents against errors, …” This saying is attributed to Thomas
Jefferson, and it rang so true this afternoon.
We hopefully will use reason and inquiry before accepting everything
that we are told, be it from conservative or liberal pundits.
In full disclosure; I am the proud owner of two solar arrays that I will
be installing on my sailboat, partially as an experiment, but also to be more
self sufficient and less dependent on an outlet to charge the batteries on my
boat.
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