Everyone wins with green energy
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Editor,
Yes, I’m writing this to address some of the concepts Janna Taylor wrote about in her article titled, “Education Conference a Misuse of Taxpayer Money.”
This is ridiculous. This is exactly what taxpayer money should be used for. For one, if she doesn’t understand why fossil fuels are called “dirty energy” by now I wonder what world she’s been living in. Evidently she’s missed the destruction of the Gulf Coast, Black Lung Disease, Mercury poisoning of thousands of asthmatic children due to fracking, etc. And on top of all that it is dirty energy because it is too expensive for America to maintain any longer financially. Ask any University president, any truck driver, any American worker. Ask any economist, accountant or financial advisor. It is an addiction that is destroying our country and draining our finances. It is fomenting wars, destroying our environment, and harming our children. It is unsustainable.
We are running out of it anyway. If we don’t start now to retrofit America with solar, wind and any other green energy we have, our children are going to live to see the day when the last gallon of oil is gone, then what are they going to do? We’ve had the technology to wean ourselves off this for decades and it is the only responsible thing to do. Everyone wins with green energy, it is not a democratic or republican issue. Pleasing the top 1 percent, the campaign funders at the cost of the rest of us, our future generations and our world itself, is unacceptable. We need to retrain our oil and coal workers as solar and wind installers. This would provide a lifetime of good, clean, well paying, secure employment for many, many people.
I would also like to commend the timely article written in the same edition of your paper by John Swenson which reminds our “representatives” of their real job duties and limitations they literally “swore oaths” to do before being allowed to take these positions, one of which is “to avoid succumbing to the pressure of those who would engraft the sectarian tenets and personal values of some onto the laws which govern all.”
So who are the real terrorists? Those who for their own personal profits are pushing for the destruction of our planet and the impoverishment and abandonment of our future generations; thereby threatening the very foundations of our nation.
Vickie Hitchcock
Ronan
