Fakes, frauds, and phonies
To the editor:
As an American involved with virtually thousands and thousands of life experiences your personal acumen and common sense usually enables you to know a con game when you see it. However, we as Americans are so brainwashed, demonized and polarized by our system of two major political parties, that sometimes our sight is blurred. Such is the case with proposed Cap and Trade legislation (better known as Cap and Tax). Remember, the cost of producing the so called clean energy must be subsidized by your government from your taxes. The production of wind power which cannot be stored; and solar power, where there are no new manufacturing companies without substantial government subsidies, are the least effective and most costly of any power generation on planet Earth. The cost of wind power and solar energy, if you add in all government grants and funding, is seven times the cost of today’s energy sources.
If you raise the percentage of American use of so-called clean energy from its present 2 percent to 5 percent or 6 percent, it will virtually break the bank.
Let’s look at some facts: the country of Spain was the leader of alternative energy use in Europe, funding virtually billions of dollars in hopes of expanding their work force into a new and better energy program. The exact opposite occurred. Unemployment in Spain in 2001 was two million, one hundred seventy-nine thousand (2,179,000). Now after almost 10 years of this cruel hoax called alternative energy unemployment in Spain in 2010 is nine million one hundred fifty-six thousand (9,156,000). That is a devastating 40% of the work force of Spain’s 45 million, 550 thousand (45,550,000) population.
The beautiful country of Spain, with its government’s spendthrift ways, now owes the European Union one trillion dollars, and along with Portugal, Ireland, and Greece is on the verge of bankruptcy. The United States of America is also headed down this same primrose lane.
Politics seems to be the one profession where idiots universally are in charge.
In the United States solar hot water heaters are sold with a government rebate of one-third the cost, otherwise few could afford them. Living in Cape Coral, Fla. and analyzing our present electric cost over the last year including the high amount on our February bill of $322.30, and the low on our January bill of $123.49, our average over the year was $206.85 per month. Now, take the absolute absurdity of switching to wind and solar power as our primary sources of energy; the cost would be seven times our present electric bill. The increase would sky rocket our monthly electric bill to $1,447.95, or $17,345.40 per year. The difference on a yearly basis would be an additional $14,893.16 by using wind and solar as our primary source of energy. Then think about this; in a 10-year period the additional cost would be $148,931.60, almost 50 percent more than the average price of a home in Lee County Florida during May 2010.
Keeping the proposed Cap and Trade legislation in mind, you would think that the majority of those elected and non-elected political government employees must have come from the law firm of loot, rape, pillage, draw down, double talk, and rip-off! I personally have a far greater respect for the soiled doves selling their wares along Cleveland Avenue and Palm Beach Boulevard, in Lee County Fla., than I do for those politicians who sell their souls to the multi-national corporate hustlers and money whores of the government oligarchy, whose primary goals are absolute control and financial destruction of America’s middle class.
Jon Larsen Shudlick
Cape Coral