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Wisconsinites: Let Scott Walker Live Up To His Commitments To The Free Market
Tea Party Tribune ^ | July 25, 2014 | Buck Williams

Posted on 07/25/2014 1:37:41 PM PDT by BuckWilliams

Unfortunately, competition is under attack in my beloved Wisconsin when it comes to energy choice. For the state where I grew up watching my father decry and fight like hell against the ruinous policies of Robert LaFollette Jr., who turned the state into a progressive “paradise” of which only Karl Marx and Gus Hall could be proud, I want nothing more than a vibrant competitive market.

While Gov. Scott Walker has done more than any other Wisconsin governor in recent memory to undo policies that threaten competition, he’s missing the boat on energy choice in the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at teapartytribune.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: aynrand; energy; freemarket; utilities
Make sure all of you who live in Wisconsin should flood Gov. Walker's office. The fact he's not giving his citizens putting the choice of who they can buy their electricity is scandalous. He says he's against big government, but his actions don't support that on this issue. Makes me so angry to see him betray his alleged Tea Party principles.
1 posted on 07/25/2014 1:37:41 PM PDT by BuckWilliams
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To: BuckWilliams; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; ...

Walker is NOT a member of the Tea Party. That doesn’t mean that he doesn’t agree with them on many things, but he never campaigned, nor alleged affiliation, with the Tea Party.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.


2 posted on 07/25/2014 2:08:22 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: BuckWilliams

Is solar power a viable alternative in Wisconsin winters?


3 posted on 07/25/2014 2:12:32 PM PDT by shove_it (Directive 10-289 lives)
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To: shove_it

not really that much. snow requires’removal and cleaning the panels. falling ice is a danger’to any kind of solar farm array, one of which got badly’damaged being close to a tv transmitter tower.


4 posted on 07/25/2014 2:20:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man; BuckWilliams

That’s what I thought. Here in Florida even with reliable sunshine, about the only uses for residential solar panels are heating water for swimming pools, supplementing water heaters and yard lighting. I don’t get the point of the article.


5 posted on 07/25/2014 3:36:30 PM PDT by shove_it (Directive 10-289 lives)
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To: BuckWilliams; afraidfortherepublic

Hmmm. Joined TODAY to tell Wisconsinites how UNHAPPY they should be with their Governor?

Sure. Yep. Right.


6 posted on 07/25/2014 3:42:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: BuckWilliams

IBTZ!

Bless your heart!


7 posted on 07/25/2014 3:43:54 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE thatEARTH....Archimedes)
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To: shove_it

i think mid-spring to mid-fall they could be good for supplementing a primary power supply, and maybe short term emergency with a battery array, but that’s about it. one or two small residential wind turbines would probably be more useful.


8 posted on 07/25/2014 4:12:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

My thoughts also, my FRiend.


9 posted on 07/26/2014 8:16:12 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Diana:

No one is saying Wisconsinites should be UPSET with their governor. But I believe you and your fellow citizens should be able to choose who you get your electricity from. To me, it’s a basic freedom, and the free market should decide winners and losers, not government.

The issue isn’t Walker himself as much as it is the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, but since those commissioners are appointed by Walker, I believe it would be naive to think he can’t influence them to do the right thing and return power (literally and figuratively) to the people of the state). Don’t you agree?


10 posted on 07/26/2014 11:13:51 AM PDT by BuckWilliams
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To: BuckWilliams

Sometimes a well regulated power company monopoly - a commodity that EVERYbody uses, where there can be great economies of scale, is the most efficient lowest cost per capita way to go. Sort of like with roads, and water pipes. The state departments of transportation are like utility monopolies. Sometimes these TEA crusades go a bit too far in their pursuit of purity. The utilities raising their prices could be because of Obama - and every solar guy that leaves the market means higher costs per utility customer that remains. TEA is going to pick a fight now with the best presidential candidate in the field? Good grief.


11 posted on 08/02/2014 5:41:12 PM PDT by H.Akston (It's all about property rights.)
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