--- Dyna Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few more thoughts on this subject, from a neutral viewpoint:
Funny... > 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? Time, energy, and money to devote to making our world a better place? > 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. It sounds like you're willing to pay any price for short term gain. If I didn't know you were a Deaniac, I'd wonder if you were a republican. We're consuming environmental resources at unsustainable levels. If we paid prices for goods & services that reflected the cost of their environmental impact, the whole paradigm would change. > 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. Damn those environmentalists for trying to keep people healthy and sustain the earth for the next generation... Regards, Jason Stone Diamond Lake __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
