Politically Incorrect = “Anti” Environment
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Granted the newspaper I was reading at lunch wasn’t a mainstream “News” paper, but then one could wonder if such a thing actually exists anymore, anyway. The article covered the re-election bid of U.S. Senator Harry Reid (which one could get from the article, the reporter thought would be a good thing to have happen).
One of the story angles that the reporter was chasing involved how ready Reid is for the campaign and how of out of it the Republicans are to take him on. The reporter noted one of the possible candidates and a news release that they had sent out being critical of the Cap & Trade legislative proposal. The contrast that was used was that Senator Reid was busy working with the Secretary of the Interior to get solar powered energy facilities up and running and the “anti-environment” challenger was bashing Cap & Trade.
It seems that unless you bow down and worship the politically-correct touchstones of alternative energy – you are anti-environment. If you consider the “solution from Congress” with the reverence of what came down from the mountain on tablets of stone (although those truths only took 10 lines) – you should be anointed and given dominion over all of us…if you believe that the legislative work will destroy the U.S. economy and accomplish nothing to change the temperature outside – you are an unbeliever not worthy to express a thought!
Thank you, Mr. Reporter, for your insight into what it takes to be considered a valid person. Now that we understand where the margins are, to fit within the realm, which you provide judgment – we won’t have to wonder about the label that you consider us to have.
We don’t have to accept that perspective as being worthwhile or even telling of what we might actually be, but we do know what you consider (in your unbiased manner) to be the case…
Granted the newspaper I was reading at lunch wasn’t a mainstream “News” paper, but then one could wonder if such a thing actually exists anymore, anyway. The article covered the re-election bid of U.S. Senator Harry Reid (which one could get from the article, the reporter thought would be a good thing to have happen).
One of the story angles that the reporter was chasing involved how ready Reid is for the campaign and how of out of it the Republicans are to take him on. The reporter noted one of the possible candidates and a news release that they had sent out being critical of the Cap & Trade legislative proposal. The contrast that was used was that Senator Reid was busy working with the Secretary of the Interior to get solar powered energy facilities up and running and the “anti-environment” challenger was bashing Cap & Trade.
It seems that unless you bow down and worship the politically-correct touchstones of alternative energy – you are anti-environment. If you consider the “solution from Congress” with the reverence of what came down from the mountain on tablets of stone (although those truths only took 10 lines) – you should be anointed and given dominion over all of us…if you believe that the legislative work will destroy the U.S. economy and accomplish nothing to change the temperature outside – you are an unbeliever not worthy to express a thought!
Thank you, Mr. Reporter, for your insight into what it takes to be considered a valid person. Now that we understand where the margins are, to fit within the realm, which you provide judgment – we won’t have to wonder about the label that you consider us to have.
We don’t have to accept that perspective as being worthwhile or even telling of what we might actually be, but we do know what you consider (in your unbiased manner) to be the case…
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/7/2009 1:03 PM 
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Senator Harry Reid Climate Change
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Senator Harry Reid Climate Change
The rush in the U.S. Congress (House and Senate) to pass Legislation, even before it is read is indicative of the elitist and arrogant nature most of our elected officials have assimilated. They, like the pitchman on the 30 minute TV commercial, or the Carney hawker at the Fair, do not deal in hard quantifiable facts. Instead they use emotionally driven conjecture and verbal deception through nuance.
If Harry Reid is such an active advocate of alternative energy sources why has he not pushed for a full build out of the Wind Power Zone at the Nevada Test Site or the Solar Zone at the Nevada Test Site, areas designated for over 20 years which belong to the Federal Government? Or what of the extensive Geothermal area along significant portions of the I80 corridor in Nevada, there is only relative small energy capture in this area. It is because he and others in Washington D.C. will play the part of the pitch man. They will excite the public,and move on to another area as soon as possible because the truth is they have never performed the math, and if they have, they know that economically most renewable energy sources are financial losers without huge State and Federal subsidies. In the case of Wind and Solar, they have utility in augmenting the existing power grid during daily peak usage, but are of little large scale commercial use in off peak because the power for Solar requires the sun, and wind tends to be present more in line with the sun due to solar heating of the atmosphere. Even T-Boone Pickens has mothballed his extensive Wind Farm plans because the Government Giveaways are not as forthcoming as envisioned.
The wife and I ran the numbers on placing a closed loop at our house for solar PV panels. Payback is about 17 years when you factor in the cost of Money over time. Battery life and replacement in the Desert makes even that questionable.
Being cynical, I anticipate that one day if the Federal Government is not reigned in they will lay claim to sunlight. They have all ready done so with the CO2 each of you and your live stock expel, not to mention the methane gas, both of which are now designated as Green House Gases. Once they lay claim to the photons hitting the earth, what Use Tax will they levy to each Citizen affecting that Private Solar Electrical system at your home?
Harry is a superb and gifted politician, able to divert the attention of the citizenry with promises and gifts from their own pockets (Taxes) periodically lavished on the Little People of Nevada just in time for the next election cycle.
Oh by the way, that Cap and Trade. If you look at the "Carbon Credits" that will be proposed, they have tremendous similarity to DERIVATIVES, which are the principal cause of our current economic malaise. Will we once again fall for the Carny Side show where a fictitious item (Carbon Credits) is traded as if it were real and we collapse the economy into a real Depression?
Bill Parson
http://parsonforsenate2010.c
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