Curse the darkness

"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness." Know one is sure who coined this catchy phrase, but it sure resonates with me today.

I just heard today that a federal judge has stopped a 1200 megawatt coal fired power plant in Georgia. 1200 megawatts is a big plant. That would place it in the top ten in the US if my research is correct. The plant was stopped because the judge said they had not done enough research into alternate methods of removing CO2 (carbon dioxide). Note, that she did not say it was not a clean burning plant or that it did not meet all federal and state guide lines. No, this was one person's decision. Not based on any fact of law or legal precedent, but merely one person's opinion. That's true power, to stop new plants by just saying, maybe there is a better way to clean the air. Maybe there is a better way, I sure hope so, but in the mean time we are about to hit the wall on energy producing capacity in this country.

We don't like nuclear, we don't like coal, and we don't like hydro. Wind turbines kill birds. Tidal current generators kill fish. We all know that oil is evil, but we do like solar as long as the huge solar collectors are in somebody else's back yard, and so far solar is not very efficient.

We do like to turn our food stocks into fuel, such as ethanol form corn. The only problem with that approach is now we can't afford to feed our cattle, and oh by the way, we can't produce enough corn to keep the lights on in Perrywinkle Tennessee, much less a major city. Oh yea, and did I mention that it takes more energy to produce ethanol than it provides. If Iowa were not an early primary state, nobody would consider ethanol from corn as a viable energy source. Politicians may not know how to get us over this energy crisis, but they sure know how to pander for a vote!

Obama says that drilling for oil in the US is not the answer - -it would take to long!

I have an idea, let's drill for oil, build power plants of all types if we have to. Lot's of them. We can do these things while we look for the magic elixir that we all seek. Or we can just stand and curse the darkness rather than have the pollution caused by lighting a single candle.

If God really does help those who helps themselves, then who is going to help us!

And that's all I've got to say about that.