Saturday, September 15, 2012

PROPOSAL 3: Not in our best interest...



PROPOSAL 3:    INCREASE RENEWABLE ENERGY


This proposal WOULD REQUIRE UTLILITIES TO PROVIDE 25% OF THEIR ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES.

Once again, what is troubling here are words like “REQUIRE” companies to do something which means once in the constitution it becomes a constitutional mandate that cannot be denied without extreme difficulty.

On the surface, providing electricity from sources like wind, solar, biomass and hydropower is desirable and we are hoping that companies will develop more efficient means of using these sources in the near future BUT TO DEMAND their use by a certain date is going a little too far.

Already, our government is providing incentives for use of renewable energy sources but that is different from demanding their use.

We are after all a market driven economy and not a Communist centrally planned economy which history shows never worked and that is why it collapsed.

The other question is to ask yourselves who is benefiting if this proposal is approved.

The common sense answer would be companies and company owners that have something to do with natural sources of energy like companies building windmills or solar panels, etc.

Instead of trying to sell their technologies to energy companies, they want to make it a law that energy companies MUST buy their energy from these companies; to me that is unethical and anti-capitalism.

Another ploy of special interest groups is to make our constitution compel the purchase of their products and to me that is a grossly inappropriate way of using our constitution.

One thing to remember is that wind power works only when there is wind and solar power works only when there is sunshine and so what happens when there is neither…very important point.

Also our energy bills will skyrocket if energy producers are mandated to switch to natural sources.

Vote NO on this proposal because it is not in our best interest at this point in time...



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