Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Laura and I were talking last night about wind energy, the government and how people do not want to solve the energy problem.
Paul and I had a little back-and-forth over the weekend about wind turbines in residential areas. I was against it and he was for it. The reason I was against it is because of the first photo he displayed in his post. I thought that something like this was inappropriate for a residential area. Then, I did a little research and noticed that certain companies are making residential wind turbines much sleeker in their look and use. I am now on board. Apparently, with the right height and wind speed, one of these turbines can supply a whole house with electricity.
Here is our (well, my) reason why anyone with any amount of power simply doesn’t want to really make any changes when it comes to energy…If the government wanted to solve the problem, they would have “gently forced” every property owner in the country to erect a small wind turbine on their property. I know, I know, that sounds strange, but think about it. The government can even pay for it. They got the taxpayers to pay billions and billions of dollars to go over to Iraq and…well, you know. Think about if the American government used that same money to purchase and have installed one wind turbine (or solar system) per property owner. Can you even imagine how much oil and coal that would save from being burned? We wouldn’t have to go over and…well, you know…the Middle East anymore.
Why is it that the only thing being offered right now are tax breaks that no one knows about? I hear more about “Barney” than I do about renewable energy incentives, and I don’t even like Barney.
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Listen, I lean to the left and I lean to the right. Who the heck knows. Sometimes the Democrats make such stupid moves they seem like Republicans and vice versa. I once heard a caller on a radio talk show call them all a bunch of “Rebublicrats.”
I don’t know much about Newt Gingrich, besides the fact that he was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999 and that he co-authored the 1994 Contract with America. Actually, reading up on him on his Wikipedia page, he mostly stands against everything I stand for.
But…a BIG but…you have to admit that the guy is smart. A few weeks ago, he took on John Kerry in an environmental debate. I didn’t see the debate, but I heard that Newt went out there and agreed with Kerry on a good number of issues. John? What happened? I executed a similar maneuver back during my college days in Binghamton. I wasn’t even a skilled debater (like you are). I was the first to speak, so I went up there and laid out my points. It was a narrow topic, so I laid out the opponents points too and why they were nonsense…and I heard their steam ever so silently being released. They had nothing. Couldn’t you have predicted what Newt was going to do and prepare for that? It’s kind of like preparing for a fight so much that when you swing at the guy, he just steps to the left and you punch the wall behind him. He walks away laughing.
On my drive yesterday to the local nursery, I heard an interview with Newt on NPR. Newt was quite eliquently talking up his program called, “American Solutions.” We was very casually letting us know there he and his team have thought up a good number of solutions to the problems that plague our country. He left them open to both Democrats and Republicans. He’s like, “Hey, here they are. Let’s all work on them together.” The interviewer kept badgering him about if he was going to run or not and he kept telling her that he may if the field needs a boost. The interviewer was questioning that it may be too late at some point and Newt replied that if the time wasn’t right, he simply wouldn’t run.
I have to tell you, the guy makes sense. What is it with the current Presidential Candidates? Why can’t they seem to put together a nice coherent message and promote it? Don’t they realize that Newt is sneaking up behind them and just may take the whole bunch of them down? Boy, he sure seemed to have a catchy program title back in 1994 and sure seems to have another one now.
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