A farmer’s crop fails, neighbors convince him that this ugly old hag – that they long have hated – has been muttering spells on him; she’s a witch. Eventually, you have a mob rounding up suspects and burning them, in the name of agriculture and food supply. They become more brutal and efficient, and keep finding more witches to burn. Like those that toss virgins into volcanoes, they never question the validity of their original [bizarre] hypothesis – just get on with the corrective action!

At least with the primitive [past] dictators of sacrifice, their death roles were relatively low in quantity. I’m not confident that their contemporaries will be so constrained.

Robert,
Great points! Without the rest of the world going along, we would be screwed if cap and trade should pass, which it won’t. I drive the I 55 corridor every weekend and I can see exactly 1 (one) windfarm. It’s about 100 miles south of Chicago. Although wind and solar are a part of the equation, so is exploitation of our existing resources. This is a combined effort.

Cap and tax must fail! It will only put the USA at a major global disadvantage.

Even liberals can’t defend this utter stupidity! This bill alone shows just how little the liberals care about anything except raising taxes. They also depend on the ignorance of their own voters to allow this to go through without any resistance. This is only about higher taxes and more control over each and every one of us! Of course, liberals like that!

— budb1969
“I drive the I 55 corridor every weekend and I can see exactly 1 (one) windfarm. It’s about 100 miles south of Chicago.”
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Recently I saw huge windfarms near Rockford IL on I-39 and several others about halfway between Minneapolis and Des Moines on I-35. Click on the map at the link below and you’ll see their status throughout the USA. Keep clicking around on this site as there is a lot of fascinating info.
http://www.awea.org/projects/
The letter writers claims an outrageous land requirement of 25 acres / megawatt. Actually it’s about 2 acres/megawatt in hilly terrain, while still eliminating only about 3 acres from use when installed in open flat terrain. Hyperbole like that in the letter just kills the author’s credibility as it reveals his agenda.

STL,
Don’t get me wrong, the one on I 55 is huge. I have no problems with that. I think it’s great that wind farms are becoming more frequent.

Mr. Schweitzer, Thanks for the repeat of the GOP talking points!

So, we should go on destroying the environment because others are destroying the environment?

There has been no attempt by the right to come up with any alternative bill, no alternative methods of production nor any comprehensive effort at energy conservation.

“Drill baby, drill” means nothing when we use almost 30% of the world’s energy and our reserves, all of them, are less than 6% of that. Where do we get the other 24% of the energy we need?

When our children and grandchildren look at what we did or did not do when confronted with this problem, do you really believe “more of the same” is going to make them feel we did the right thing?

Timbo,

After oil we get the rest through solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and coal. We don’t eliminate any source but, you and the other liberals just continue to say no to oil, coal, and nuclear knowing solar, wind, and hydro will never meet our needs. Heck Timbo, even France uses nuclear energy.

Many countries are drilling off the coast of Florida, but not the US. Why? People in California complain about the cost of gas but they don’t want to build any new refineries or drill off their coasts. (Of course they are more than willing to use oil pumped from Alaska. All sources combined will give us enough energy to sell our excess to other countries.

You know, both political parties state they want energy independence. If both parties want it, why don’t we have it? Could it be the politicians are not telling us the whole truth?

James R, you are absolutely on target. The sheeple buy their garbage too. I give credit to that stupidity to the government educational industry that doesnt educate but more indoctrinates. There is plenty of oil and much of it here is in the United States. However, you have these idiotic green jobs advocates promising millions of jobs. Doing what? They cant tell you. They promise but they cant do it. If that was so, then why arent we having an employment hiring bonanza?

Finally some common sense from a clear thinking individual.
I say Up-With-Dan-DiLeo!
He obviously brings some refreshing ideas to the narrow-minded St. Louis way of thinking.
Does this sound familiar, Mr. Schweizer?
“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.” That’s right… the famous quote from Robert Kennedy.
Dan DiLeo suggests that we set the example for the rest of the world and lead the way as America has always been known to do.
I also invite Senator McCaskill to get behind Dan’s rock-solid thinking and continue to challenge ourselves to look for a better way.
We owe at least that much to our own children and those around the world.