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Both Sides Promote Energy Socialism : /p>

Ray Cordato's premise regarding free energy markets is admirable. Unfortunately is it also a pipe dream (and not an oil pipe).

p>Bottom line: any policy whose success requires Congress to voluntarily reduce its level of power is dead on arrival in Washington D.C. br> -- Arnold Ahlert br> Boca Raton, Florida /p>

Mr. Cordato nailed it -- this ongoing energy crisis is entirely government-caused. Nuclear power was killed by the Carter Administration when it nominated as members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a Sierra Club legal counsel and a Massachusetts consumer protection flake. The equipment failure at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant caused by the utility nincompoops operating it was proclaimed by the main stream media "a deadly nuclear accident;" not a fly was hurt in that "accident." The Chernobyl nuclear accident was in fact a steam explosion that dispersed radioactive materials; it was caused by the ignorance of Soviet operators of that type of reactor's limitations -- its design was rejected as unsafe by the American authorities and was subsequently stolen by the Rosenbergs and given to the Soviets. Our "environmentalists" put a stop to offshore drilling which is completely safe as shown by the platforms operating in the North Sea that have given petroleum independence to Great Britain and Norway. The man-made globaloney warming scam has been refuted by 31,000 scientists and professionals (9,000 of them with PhD's) who signed the "Oregon Petition" and the "Manhattan Declaration" (see Internet). Unfortunately, both our Socialists (aka Democrats) and our Republicans tout for more government interventions, more taxes, more subsidies for "new technologies." Wind power dates from the Middle Ages -- you remember Don Quijote's windmills? Today one kilowatt-hour of wind turbine electricity costs some $2 per kilowatt-hour; besides those turbines are veritable cuisinarts for birds. After 2 years of operation those wind turbines in the California Sierras were surrounded with 6 feet-deep cemeteries of birds -- including albatrosses and eagles. Solar power has been tried during the last 50 years; it is expensive (1$/kw-hr), it is environmentally destructive, and of course it is unreliable just as wind power. Hydrogen cells? Where is the electricity necessary for electrolysis of water producing that hydrogen to come from? Electric cars -- same question. Geothermal energy is as old as I am -- 75 years old; it has been in use in California, Mexico, the Philippines. The byproducts include radioactive Cesium and Strontium, and enormous quantities of deadly Arsenic -- all to be placed under earth just as ordinary garbage. Photovoltaic cells? At $100/kwhr they are good enough to operate space ship computers -- but our heating in winter? Our air-conditioners in summer? Our refrigerators and hot water for showers at all times? Solar panels for water heating -- it takes 12 years of their intermittent operation to recover the energy spent to produce steel, glass, copper, and carbon black put in those panels. The poor homeowner must climb the roof every couple of days to clean them of dust and bird droppings. And let us not forget all those tax rebates costing us all.

p>Is there anybody in that Washington cesspool who understands all this? Bravo, Mr. Cordato -- keep bringing light into that irresponsible center of ignorance! br> -- Marc Jeric br> Las Vegas, Nevada /p>

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