To the Editor:
"The wind ruse: A foolish push" (March 19) really go my attention. Of course the wind doesn't blow 100 percent of the time and the sun goes down at night, but when the wind and sun work, they work extremely well.
The unharnessed energy can easily power the Earth many times over. The significant point is they don't use fossil fuels to operate, fossil fuels which pollute our air, water and food supply.
Another government mandate is scary, but so is living in an enclosed house with air filtration, water, distillation, etc.
Greedy corporations, just love government mandates. What "gift horse"?
Has our government subsidized fossil fuels⢠Just a little (I'm being facetious). $35 billion for black lung disease over the last 30 years, not including the hidden costs to our environment and health issues.
How much does it cost to secure the shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf so oil can safely pass by on its trip to America⢠Who picks up the tab if a nuclear power plant has an accident⢠The government does (taxpayers) as nukes can't get liability insurance.
Fossil fuel corporations are strangling our people and our Congress. We aren't addicted to fossil fuels. It is being force fed to us and is making us sick.
Going "green" unfortunately has taken on new meaning. "Green" means dollars. Look out, here come the sharks and wolfpack.
Ask Al Gore, whose Fisker car company just received $587 million to build $87,000 hybrid cars that use gasoline. Don't get me started!
Yes, there's a war going on, but it's not about windmills and renewable energy sources. It's the dumbing down of America (especially Congress) and how fossil fuels are in control of poisoning the Earth. I call it very slow euthanasia.
As fossil fuel prices rise, alternative renewable and sustainable energy will "naturally" take over. I'm 60 and probably won't see it. But I hope it gets here before the sky turns brown and our forests are gone.
I have a solar-charged electric car, a Vectrix electric scooter and solar hot water heating. The payback is slow, but it's not about the money. It's about a healthier life for all of us.
John Bertovich
Daisytown
