Chumley?
Posted on 08/08/2007 1:28:39 PM PDT by vadum
Protective of their scenic views, wealthy landowners in Virginia’s largely rural Fauquier County have joined green activists from the Piedmont Environmental Council to fight a desperately needed power transmission line. What’s happening there is going on across America: Prosperous rural communities —exurbs— resist rapidly expanding suburbs. And green activists build political coalitions with local residents to “fight the power.” Energy transmission companies are the new Public Enemy......
Across America, radical environmentalists are doing everything possible to stop the construction of power lines, dams and roads. The way they see it, cutting down on using energy is the best way to meet the rising demand for more residential electricity. Don’t build more power lines. Instead, change your light bulbs and make them energy-efficient.
In Fauquier, green activists are working arm-in-arm with some government officials and affluent landowners in a war on economic development. Their goal is to keep middle class suburbanites away from the region’s open space, its vineyards and wine-tasting events, and from the sites of its internationally-known polo matches. Let in the suburbanites and you let in their housing tracts, big box stores and shopping malls. Worst of all, you let in the power lines that keep their homes and businesses lit and bustling.
The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), a small but well-funded and well-connected nonprofit group headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia, claims that Dominion Power is acting purely for profit and is exaggerating the need for a transmission line......
Should environmentalist celebrities decide national energy policy? When PEC turns to actor Robert Duvall, a Fauquier County resident, to host fundraising events, it lets public relations do the work of argument and analysis. This has become all-too-typical of energy policy battles. Personal testimonials and appeals to emotion increasingly affect public policy about how to supply energy......
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Light bulbs, thats it! They will save us from ManBearPig!
You'll not a one of those pukes in Faquier county are giving up electricity themselves.
Maybe it’s all in the genes, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878143/posts
The environazis are free to disconnect themselves from the grid if they think that’ll ‘save the planet’. Their loss is our gain.
This is a known strategy in communicating 'research' to decision makers, aka, how to advance your agenda. Instead of complaining that liberals use such tactics, I think conservatives need to embrace it. Put a face in your data, and people would 'feel' that the issue is important to them. This is not to say that package is more important than hard data. Conservatives need to back up any claim with data, but the data doesn't need to be only graphs or tables.
“”Don’t build more power lines. Instead, change your light bulbs and make them energy-efficient.””
Light bulbs in a residence simply don’t use a significant amount of power. Most of the power for homes is in air conditioning, hot water heating, refrigeration, and clothes dryer. If you want to try an experiment turn ON all of the lights and go out and check the meter. Then turn ODD all of the lights and turn ON the air conditioner and the clothes dryer...then check the meter. You will notice that the meter is turning about 10 times faster when the AC and clothes dryer are on.
Another thing about lighting. More power is consumed by lighting in industry, commerce and government offices (including schools) than all of residential lighting. Some would have us believe that changing to compact flourescent lighting will have an impact on the nation’s power supply...but if you go into any store, office building or school you will see that the lighting in those institutions is already flourescent. Those institutions have already made the change and they are the biggest consumers of energy for lighting.
“”Then turn ODD all of the lights...””
Oops..should be, “Then turn OFF all of the lights...”
Chumley?
{sarcasm on}If God had wanted man to have light bulbs, he would have given us them.
We are going to limit you to what God has given you, the Sun, the Moon, and whatever lightning bugs you happen to have.{sarcasm off}
Small, but "well-funded" and "well-connected" nonprofit groups are almost strictly a liberal phenomenon. And they are dedicated to perpetuating liberal privilege at the price of our freedom.
I always wonder (well, ok, on a slow day) just what it costs in electricity to run the elevators in a 50-story building.
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