Blindly following Europe- taking the same path they did, without considering the possible results- and ignoring theirs- will cause more poverty and more undue hardship on those who still try to get by, by working in this country. I pay my own electric bill, that's the iron I have in this fire. I don't want to be forced to pay more for electric because it is generated by technology that is neither efficient, nor reliable. Nebraska has some of the lowest electric rates in the country. Our power is generated by coal, wind, gas, and hydro. Ignoring the fact that coal is currently the only one we can depend on every minute, every hour, every day, of every year, and forcing us to abandon it, will cause a loss of power when it is most needed. Ignoring that fact has created a new class in Europe. It's called "fuel poverty". That's how they describe those who spend over 10% of their income on electricity. The average American home (in 2012) spent about 3% of income on fuels (natural gas, propane, fuel oil) PLUS electric. Wind sounds good, but it is only practical as a supplemental generation source. The wind doesn't always blow. England found that out the hard way in 2012, when a windless cold snap hit and stuck around for some time. If it were not for being able to quickly bring several oil-fired plants on line, much of the country would have been without power with temperatures far below what they are used to. Australia has disbanded their "climate commission" and is working toward repealing their "carbon tax". Why? It's ineffective. It's a feel-good measure, designed to give the appearance of doing something, while doing little more than causing more money to change hands needlessly, only being effective at creating a stream of taxable revenue. "Peter J. Cook – who worked at the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies and on an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – claimed in The Australian that the levy has "proved inefficient as a mechanism for decreasing emissions."(see link) Japan is lowering its target for carbon dioxide emission reduction. Taking their nuclear plants offline after the tsunami required them to return to using natural gas and coal-fired power plants. Nothing else can currently and reliably supply the power they need. Being an environmentalist today has nothing to do with the environment. It is about control. "The urge to save humanity is often a convenient disguise for the urge to control it."- H.L Mencken
You didn't see much of Nebraska from the interstate. It only looks flat. There's a lot more trees than you think there is. I can go less than 2 miles from my house, and along a dry creek bed, there is more wood there than I could hope to burn for heat in my lifetime. Next time get off onto route 6 or 2 and get out of the Platte valley.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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