The best approach for implementing clean fuel sources for LWSD schools | Letter
Published 10:00 am Friday, April 29, 2016
I’m writing in regards to the March 18 letter to the Redmond Reporter editor titled “LWSD staff and students can help fight global warming” by Redmond High School freshman Meghna Shankar.
Meghna, I agree with everything in your article except for the Al Gore book of “facts,” and also your idea of forcing people to find another way to school by minimizing the parking lot size. The former is void of facts and the latter shows a lack of understanding of free markets and how the politically correct nanny state is killing jobs.
Regarding my first point, Gore was exposed as a fraud just minutes after his “An Inconvenient Truth” book was released to the public back in the 1990s. If the “problem” has to be renamed several times (i.e. greenhouse gas, global warming, climate change, etc.) then that should tell you right then and there some smells very bad. Please search for my past Redmond Reporter articles on this topic and you may want to do some research on your own per the following websites that have many times pulled the rug out on Gore and other alarmist folks like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which have shown to be a fraud: www.ClimateDepot.com, http://carbon-sense.com/, http://www.icecap.us/ and http://wattsupwiththat.com/ to name just a few that prove that the science is not settled.
Currently, wind, solar and other cleaner power resources, together, cannot make up the power needs provided by coal and other fossil fuel sources. One (of many) areas President Obama has greatly failed us is that he thinks that quickly shutting down the coal industry and closing drilling locations — overnight — will somehow not adversely impact jobs, which it has. Small businesses, which make up 67 percent-plus of the U.S. economy, are being over-regulated, overtaxed and put out of existence via ObamaCare, the IRS, the EPA and other politically leftist failed policies. The true unemployment level is now at 22.9 percent in March (see www.shadowstats.com, alternate unemployment rate and you’ll notice it rose way up in 2009-2010 timeframe).
The ironic point here is that if you want feasible, cleaner fuel sources while not spiking the unemployment levels overnight, then you need to have the private sector involved. This is without the White House picking winners and losers (i.e. Solyndra Solar Panel Company as just one case of many). So the better path or approach is to vote for politicians who understand competition is good, incentives will help and much lower regulation will spurn the engine called innovation and grow small businesses who need to be involved. Most climate alarmists vote for Socialists or for Marxists (e.g. Bernie or Hillary), whose policies end up working against having the level of innovation we need and puts small businesses out of business.
The second item is the nanny state, which has to do with the federal government being way too big and its powers not limited at all. The founding fathers warned us how the slide would look like, and we are living it now. Read George Orwell’s book “1984” and/or “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich von Hayek. Both should be a mandatory read for all public high schools.
I am a senior engineer at the Boeing Company in Seattle and I build and design advanced test systems that make planes even more efficient and capable. Facts matter in everything we do otherwise our company itself will not survive. With timing being everything, a very good movie you should take your friends and family to is coming to theaters across the country on May 2 and it is called “Climate Hustle.” Check availability and times via http://www.climatehustlemovie.com/ website as to where it will be shown on the Eastside.
If and when you do watch the movie, I would like you to think afterwards how different the content of the movie that was presented versus Gore’s book. I then challenge you and your friends to understand that a person grows the most who looks at all sides, and who is fully aware when reason and rational (fact-based) thinking is occurring, versus when the lesser emotional-based thinking has replaced it. By searching for the 100 percent truth on this topic known to the alarmists as “climate changes,” this will provide the most expedient and efficient path to cleaner fuel resources that you and I would love to have.
Gerald Miller
Redmond
