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Wednesday, November 23, 2005


Adopt a Windmill, for Just Pennies a Day
My energy company is making me an offer I can, in fact, refuse: pay extra for energy generated through wind power.

In one of those commercials along the lines of "sponsor a third world child," the company tells me that my "commitment to a better environment can start immediately with a minimum purchase of a $2.00 block ... each money for only one year." Elsewhere on the brochure, I told that my green tax will "create long-term, skilled jobs in rural areas where such occupations are often in short supply."

But wait, there's more! Economic development and enhanced tax revenues await my purchase of super-premium juice:

"When wind turbines are installed, farmers earn leasing income from land that can still be used for crops. Counties also benefit through increased sales tax revenues that return to the citizens as community improvements."

If that's the value proposition of alternative energy, no wonder why we're still using coal and petroleum.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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