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ISSUES In Science And Technology, Winter 2008
Ending the Inertia on Energy Policy
By John Deutch, John Podesta, Kevin Hassett, and
others
Review by Steve Baer
Zomeworks Corporation
Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 2008
These articles make it clear we have problems.
Something is standing in the way of honest commerce.
Back-sight a shadow and you find the sun; study our
policies and you find the bank. We must clear the way so
the minds and muscle of the world can get to work.
Confine government to preventing what is bad. Stiffen and
enforce laws against pollution. Shut down the Department
of Energy.
Divorce government from the banks and the spell
these counterfeiters presently cast over us. Stop all
subsidies, depletion allowances, tax credits, renewable
portfolio standards. No special deals. Not for solar, wind,
oil, gas, nuclear or coal. I say this after 40 years in the
solar business.
Industry is powered by engines burning fuel and
wires carrying electricity. Why have we appointed
counterfeiters to steer it all? Look at them. They refuse
to count what is free, such as light through windows or the
working of clotheslines, to see what is there and to use
what works. All so they may lend us more money. How
embarrassing to have to flatter and appease the bankers to
be “successful”.
End all privileges of think tanks, universities,
churches and non-profit institutions. They have become
little help to the thinking, teaching, worshiping and giving
of the rest of us. We will remember how to use neglected
past inventions, glass, nuclear power, clotheslines,
bicycles, shoes. We will invent more.
Few understand that the banks and the governments
they control (without fuel, pumps, sparkplugs or even
wheels – just certificates) can’t print Btus. Truth seeps
out. Nervous counterfeiters get jealous. What have we
learned from the dot com and housing bubbles? Bubbles
burst. The devotees of counterfeiting will blow the
alternative energy bubble or start a war or both unless we
citizens call a halt.
Ending the Inertia on Energy Policy
By John Deutch, John Podesta, Kevin Hassett, and
others
Review by Steve Baer
Zomeworks Corporation
Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 2008
These articles make it clear we have problems.
Something is standing in the way of honest commerce.
Back-sight a shadow and you find the sun; study our
policies and you find the bank. We must clear the way so
the minds and muscle of the world can get to work.
Confine government to preventing what is bad. Stiffen and
enforce laws against pollution. Shut down the Department
of Energy.
Divorce government from the banks and the spell
these counterfeiters presently cast over us. Stop all
subsidies, depletion allowances, tax credits, renewable
portfolio standards. No special deals. Not for solar, wind,
oil, gas, nuclear or coal. I say this after 40 years in the
solar business.
Industry is powered by engines burning fuel and
wires carrying electricity. Why have we appointed
counterfeiters to steer it all? Look at them. They refuse
to count what is free, such as light through windows or the
working of clotheslines, to see what is there and to use
what works. All so they may lend us more money. How
embarrassing to have to flatter and appease the bankers to
be “successful”.
End all privileges of think tanks, universities,
churches and non-profit institutions. They have become
little help to the thinking, teaching, worshiping and giving
of the rest of us. We will remember how to use neglected
past inventions, glass, nuclear power, clotheslines,
bicycles, shoes. We will invent more.
Few understand that the banks and the governments
they control (without fuel, pumps, sparkplugs or even
wheels – just certificates) can’t print Btus. Truth seeps
out. Nervous counterfeiters get jealous. What have we
learned from the dot com and housing bubbles? Bubbles
burst. The devotees of counterfeiting will blow the
alternative energy bubble or start a war or both unless we
citizens call a halt.