[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[R. G. Newbury]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09:47:16 Jeff Walther wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:52:08 +0100
>>> From: Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net>
>>>
>>> 'you Yanks' are
>>> still paying ridicillously little for your power.
>> There is no virtue, nor advantage to paying more.
> 
> Certainly not in the USA today, but if at least a portion of the higher fees 
> were to go towards forward-looking projects I'd happily pay them, but not 
> when they go to a nicer commode in PG&E's CEO's office.
> 
> Americans are incapable of seeing past the next election.
> 
No. American politicians and generally all other politicians are 
incapable of seeing past the next election. People generally are easily 
capable of doing so. And lots of people don't give a damn about the next 
election. They are quite happy to drift along believing the pablum that 
the MSM feeds up. And far too many are quite capable of believing crap 
that a moment's reflection would reveal is impossible (cf: woman 
believing that the election of Obama will result in the payment of her 
mortgage!).

Politicians spend far too much time worrying about the bleaters and 
whiners, especially those which the MSM anoints and swoons over. Things 
like 'anthrogenic global warming' and the 'dangers' of nuclear waste 
storage. These gaia-worship campaigns end up in the waste of literally 
millions if not billions of dollars.

Common sense isn't.

Geoff


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