Letters February 6, 2008

Thursday, February 07, 2008

By Planet User

The energy future
Is “Clean Coal” in Wyoming’s future, Senator Barrasso?  Your recent comments would lead us to believe so. However they seem to be based upon industry PR needs rather than actual fact.

From a Feb. 1 US Department of Energy news briefing: “Facing ever-increasing costs to build what would have been the world’s largest clean-coal power plant and carbon sequestration facility led the U.S. Department of Energy to scrap its plans for the Mattoon, Ill., site. At the time of the announcement on Wednesday, the facility was estimated to cost $1.8 billion, and the D of E said the costs had doubled since it was originally conceived.”

Senator Barrasso has been quoted as believing Wyoming has a 500 year supply of coal. Governor Freudenthal says there is a 250 year supply. Wyoming state geologist Lance Cook has stated that Wyoming has 38 year supply. The federal Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Review 2006 shows that energy output from US coal reached a maximum of 24.045 quads in 1998, and has never achieved that peak level again. They can’t all be right!
- Richard Elder
Jackson, WY

The Jesus-speak propaganda project
Recently, I received a belated Xmas card forwarded from my former Jackson P.O. box. It began with a quote from Woodrow Wilson, 1911. “America was born a Christian nation,” is how it starts. This is a delusional statement, for history reveals the opposite.
Would Jesus have supported the decimation of the Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, or the political oppression of women? How about clear cutting the old growth forests of the entire east coast or the annihilation of 40 million buffalo, which could have fed this entire continent if not the world?

I don’t think so.

These, however, are the conditions under which our nation was actually “born.” Great progress has been made, but there is clearly room for massive amounts of improvement. I suspect that the 44 million suffering and medically uninsured Americans, myself included, are still waiting for this “birth” that would actually meet Christian criteria.

It is thereby so incredibly ironic that President Wilson, just 5 years later stated in regards to his signing of the Federal Reserve Act: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

Foster Friess didn’t send me a bulk printed card celebrating Christ’s birthday, but classic Republican “Jesus-speak” propaganda. Republicans relentlessly “talk” about how Christian they are, but they never seem to truthfully engage in the “walk.”  Gratefully, we are finally catching on to their crap. It has piled up so high over the decades that it is really starting to stink, BAD.
- Joshua Doolittle
Schenectady, N.Y.
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