I didn't see many of the "Clean Energy Now" signs in the working class neighborhoods on the Northside or elsewhere. I saw plenty of them in the more affluent neighborhoods. Why?
The affluent can afford to spend money to purchase a perceived better quality of life- the things like organic food, hybrid cars, and expensive energy. They can also afford broadband access to get on this and other internet forums and argue that everyone else should do likewise.
Here on the Northside our furnaces are going full blast tonight. The electric heaters are running too, as we try to keep the pipes from freezing and bursting (again). there's not much we can do about it- the NRP grants for tighter windows and insulation are gone, and some of us are renters anyhow. When your spending a couple hundred a month for gas and electricity cheap energy from coal is a good thing... and we curse the NIMBYs from the wealthier neighborhoods who are forcing their overpriced boutique fuels on us. At least we can still shop at Cub instead of the organic food store, for now.
Give the NIMBYs and "environmentalists" another decade and they'll force us to eat their overpriced "organic" food too. It's mandates like the natural gas conversions that give environmentalists a bad name, and will doom their movement if given the chance.
hanging on in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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