Comments on: Gulf spill side effect: Amnesia

By: Dwilson145

Dwilson145 — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:47:00 +0000

When it comes to wind we were sold a lot of BS on that when I lived in Palm Springs telling us we would see all these savings. So they voted for them, and now the desert is full of them, and the result was we wound up with the highest utility rates in the nation. I personally was paying over $600 a month for a 1,400 sq foot home. After I moved away with the same usahge habits my electric Bill dropped to around $150 a month. SOlar is just as expenisve, and neither one is an efficient means of produscing electricity on a mass scale. We as a nation need to stop chasing technologies that have shown time and again to be extremly expensive.
More research is needed for other alternative ways of producing energy, and it needs to be done in the private sector not being government subsidised. Not sure why people think the best way to accomplish goals is through Government interverntion when in fact most of our greatest accomplishments have been developed in the private sector

By: Dwilson145

Dwilson145 — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:26:00 +0000

As a retired professional sailor the Ocean means the world to me. On the other hand I am also the Son of a father who did extensive research on oil spills. This one though horrific has proven the ocean can take a lot. That is not to say we need not be careful, but adding further regulations is not the answer. What is needed is to have better oversights of the regulations we already have in place. Making the Government larger and adding more regulations is not the answer and we need to get that way of thinking out of our heads

By: Debd99

Debd99 — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:34:00 +0000

Addendum to my statement. I meant to write the material/manufacture/man power used to make and install “wind mills”.

By: Debd99

Debd99 — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:31:00 +0000

How do these politicans sleep @ night??? An investigation really needs to be done on their US bank accounts and any off shore bank accounts they may have. It’s hard to believe they are approving offshore drilling to save pricing here in the USA when this will not happen in my lifetime…
Where is their stand on solar energy. Never mind wind…those massive pieces of equipment go up without fanfare and is disasterous for the birds and bats who fly into them. Solar is the only way to go . The sun is free. Only solar panels are needed and they certainly do not cost as much as drilling and the equiment/man power used or the material/manufacture/man power used to make and install them.
All these oil companies and wind structure companies are paying somebody off…I’m sure of it. Otherwise any logical, environmentally conscious lawmaker would be championing solar vigorously.