We Will Vote Against Anybody Advocating Cap & Trade

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I just heard Sen. Lieberman on Fox News. He was pushing solar and wind energy. To do this, he wants to handicap our major sources of energy, which are fossil fuels, by applying taxes. This is another case of handicapping a winner in order to level the playing field.

Many years ago there were hundreds of windmills in Holland, using energy to perform energy demanding tasks, such as grinding grain. Eastern Long Island also had many windmills and most of the West had windmills to pump water for cattle. These uses of wind energy have mostly been replaced by electrically driven motors. In effect, fossil fuels to produce electricity has generally taken over to become the major sources of energy. This is happening, because electricity is cheap and most convenient, when compared to the labor-intensive requirements of using wind energy and its general unreliability, when the wind is not blowing.

Why would we knowingly revert to using the decadent technology of wind energy, when fossil fuels do the job better and cheaper? Carbon dioxide emission significantly contributing to global warming is a myth. We have controlled emissions of sulfur dioxide which had contributed to acid rain, and I will grant that a little more tweaking on process improvement may be helpful. But, to desert an effective technology on the basis of hearsay or political desire to improve revenues for an increase in government, size is ridiculous.

If we want to embark on reinstituting decadent technologies, why not reinstitute bleeding for health improvement, reinstitute lighthouses to replace GPS, bring back the horse and carriage, use candles instead of electric lights, etc.