Telling the Truth About Oil, Wind, and Water

With the news these days dominated by Michael Phelps winning Olympic gold medals, John Edwards confessing to marital affairs, and Paris Hilton deciding to run for president, I barely even want to know the details of Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia – its neighbor to the south. Russia isn’t even a super-power anymore, and from what I hear, they’re just acting out some leftover anger from the Cold War days. It’s not like Georgia has any oil, does it? (Full commentary is posted here.)

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[Rebecca Procter]

-----------and "community" means more than just our immediate neighbors. Part of the struggle I'm facing with regard to wind power right now is that so many "progressives" think that it's a solution to find some area that is so "desloate" in their puny thinking that it's okay to fill it up with gigantic wind turbines so that citeis somewhere else can have power. What do we consider "desolate"? The western U.S.? The Kalahari Desert? Inner Mongolia? If you asked the original inhabitants of these places, they would find it easy to describe to you the vastness of biological, cultural, and geological riches in their homes. What about urban New Jersey or Manhattan Island? Hmm, they seem pretty desolate to me in terms of biological diversity. Shall we level them and put up gigantic wind farms so that rural Ohio can have lights, refridgeration, and tractor fuel?