The Tampa Tribune sunday printed a couple of guest columns in its Commentary section busting on renewable energy, and I'd like to give them some education.
The first one is "The Anticonsumer Energy Bill", by Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute <http://www.cei.org> in Washington. CEI gets much of their funding from the petroleum industry, and this column has the greasy fingerprints of Big Oil all over it. The name Ben Lieberman rings a bell, but I can't think why. I did a google search for Ben Lieberman, and read some of his stuff elsewhere. He seems to oppose anything that has anything to do with energy conservation. The second one is "Both Supplies And Efficiencies Matter To US Energy Security", by Lynn Edward Weaver, President Emeritus of the Florida Institute of Technology. This one is more balanced than the first one, but the concept of battery powered cars as "zero emissions vehicles" comes up, and the old thing about ethanol taking more energy to produce than you get out of it, and "wasting valuable food crops", rears its ugly head again. I can't link to it through the Trib, but here it is from another source: http://www.evworld.com/databases/shownews.cfm?pageid=news110902-01 With a little help from Keith I wrote the Trib a letter shooting at these two articles. Thanks to Keith I was shooting real bullets. The Trib can take letters via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If anyone else wants to shoot at them please do. If they get enough letters, maybe they'll print something good for a change. Alan Petrillo -- Aviation is more than a hobby. It is more than a job. It is more than a career. Aviation is a way of life. A second language for the world: www.esperanto.com Processor cycles are a terrible thing to waste: www.distributed.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
