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The background information noted below is more than enough proof that Newt Gingrich was right on with his Alinsky allegation!

 

Background information “Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.” –Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky Obama helped fund ‘Alinsky Academy’: “The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy…. Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.…  ‘Midwest describes itself as ‘one of the nation’s oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.’… Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing.” Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky: “True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties…. Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power. “Obama is also an Alinskyite…. Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project…. Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.” (By Richard Poe, 11-27-07)

Opening page -  

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to he very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom —

Lucifer.”

Prologue“The Revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, ‘Burn the system down!‘ They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change our world. It is to this point that I have written this book.”

1. The PurposeIn this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace…. “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.’ This means revolution.” p.3

“Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.” p.6

“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage — the political paradise of communism.” p.10

“An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth — truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing…. To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations….” pp.10-11

Notes on Saul Alinsky and Neo-Marxism: Alinsky’s tactics were based, not on Stalin’s revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of  Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci’s transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes. Like Alinsky, Mikhail Gorbachev followed Gramsci, not Lenin. In fact, Gramsci aroused Stalins’s wrath by suggesting that Lenin’s revolutionary plan wouldn’t work in the West. Instead the primary assault would be on Biblical absolutes and Christian values, which must be crushed as a social force before the new face of Communism could rise and flourish. Malachi Martin gave us a progress report: “By 1985, the influence of traditional Christian philosophy in the West was weak and negligible…. Gramsci’s master strategy was now feasible. Humanly speaking, it was no longer too tall an order to strip large majorities of men and women in the West of those last vestiges that remained to them of Christianity’s transcendent God.”

2. Of Means and Ends [Forget  moral or ethical considerations]

“The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. … The real arena is corrupt and bloody.” p.24

“The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means… The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be….” pp.25-26

“The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means….” p.29

“The seventh rule… is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics….” p.34

“The tenth rule… is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.… It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time… Who, and how many will support the action?… If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly…” p.36

 

Notes: Apparently, Michelle Obama referred to these words during her Democratic National Convention speech: “She said, ‘Barack stood up that day,’ talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, ‘and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about ‘The world as it is‘ and ‘The world as it should be…’ And, ‘All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to, fight for the world as it should be.” Do you wonder who — or whose values — should determine what “the world… should be?”

4. The Education of the Organizer

“To the organizer, imagination… is the dynamism that starts and sustains him in his whole life of action as an organizer. It ignites and feeds the force that drives him to organize for change….
      “The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions….
     “The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life.”pp.74-75

“…the organizer must be able to split himself into two parts — one part in the arena of action where he polarizes the issue to 100 to nothing, and helps to lead his forces into conflict, while the other part knows that when the time comes for negotiations that it really is only a 10 percent difference.” p.78

“…the organizer is constantly creating new out of the old. He knows that all new ideas arise from conflict; [See Dialectic Process]  that every time man as had a new idea it has been a challenge to the sacred ideas of the past and the present and inevitably a conflict has raged.” p.79

5. Communication[Notice the emphasis on conflict, dialogue, relationships, etc. Team "service" is essential to building strong relationships through "common involvements"]

 ”And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every proposed tactic is probed by questions…. Is this manipulation? Certainly….” p.88

“One of the factors that changes what you can and can’t communicate is relationships. There are sensitive areas that one does not touch until there is a strong personal relationship based on common involvements. Otherwise the other party turns off and literally does not hear….

     “Conversely, if you have a good relationship, he is very receptive…. For example, I have always believed that birth control and abortion are personal rights to be exercised by the individual. If, in my early days when I organized… neighborhood in Chicago, which was 95 per cent Roman Catholic, I had tried to communicate this, even through the experience of the residents, whose economic plight was aggravated by large families, that would have been the end of my relationship with the community. That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all communication would have ceased.

     “Some years later, after establishing solid relationships, I was free to talk about anything…. By then the argument was no longer limited to such questions as, ‘How much longer do you think the Catholic Church can hang on to this archaic notion and still survive?’ …the subject and nature of the discussion would have been unthinkable without that solid relationship.”

pp.93-94

6. In the Beginning: The Process of Power [Notice the compromise needed to build the power base. Yet, since pragmatism has eroded all values, it's simply a matter of ends justifying means. It's not unlike churches that attract members through the world's entertainment -- then continue to soften or hide Truth in order to keep them happy and lure more.]

“From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams… only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues…. Until he has those means and power instruments, his ‘tactics’ are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.”

     “Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.” p.113

“The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are  to be displace by new patterns…. All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.” p.116

Compare with this excerpts from “Group Decision and Social Change” by Kurt Lewin:       “A change toward a higher level of group performance is frequently short lived: after a “shot in the arm”, group life soon returns to the previous level. This indicates that it does not suffice to define the objective of a planned change in group performance as the reaching of a different level. Permanency of the new level, or permanency for a desired period, should be included in the objective. A successful change includes therefore three aspects: UNFREEZING (if necessary) the present level…  MOVING to the new level . . . and FREEZING group life on the new level.”

“An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent… He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises….
     “The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an ‘agitator’ they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict.” p.117

“Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum…. Process is really purpose.” p.122

7. Tactics“Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. … Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.” p.126

Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat…. [and] the collapse of communication.

3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”

6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time….”

8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”

11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside… every positive has its negative.”

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.  In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’…

     “…any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments…. Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target…’

     “One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.” (pps.127-134)

 

Saul Alinksky, Rules for Radicals, Vintage Books, New York, 1989.

Additional Notes: Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:

“Known as the ‘father of modern American radicalism,’ Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics that take the enormous, unfocused emotional energy of grassroots groups and transform it into effective anti-government and anti-corporate activism. … Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work.”

Article by Phyllis Schalfly titled “Alinski’s Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era,” posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)

       “Alinsky’s second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his ‘tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends’ is: ‘you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.’  He doesn’t ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that ‘Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.’…

       “The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:

• ego (“reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God”),
• curiosity (raising “questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern”),
• irreverence (“nothing is sacred”; the organizer “detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality”),
• imagination (“the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer organizing”),
• a sense of humor (“the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule“), and an
• organized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only “as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.’…

“‘The organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems,’ and ‘organizations must be based on many issues.’ The organizer ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.’”

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Chicago-based Heartland Institute, Joe Bast, CEO, was the prime source of my reasoned decision based on studies by thousands of scientists worldwide whose findings remain hidden through selective reporting by the news media in favor of global warming alarmism.

Jay Lehr, Ph.D, Science Director at The Heartland Institute, has conveniently place these “10 Facts Abut Climate Change” on the back side of his business Card:

“1)  Global temperatures have not risen since 1998.

2)  900,000 years of ice core records show continuous 1,500-year warming cycles.

3)  It was 7 degrees F warmer in the 13th century when Greenland was actually green.

4)  Carbon dioxide is to plants what oxygen is to man, not a pollutant.

5)  Computer models used to forecast future warming cannot calculate the known past.

6)  Antarctic ice is increasing far more than Arctic ice is melting

7)  Historically, CO2 concentrations have risen after, not before, warming periods.

8)  Many in the news media promote global warming alarmism through selective reporting.

9)  The climate is always changing.  The present warming is neither unusual nor harmful.

10) Findings to prove man caused global warming has reached $5 billion annually.”

May Illinoisans soon wake up to what is happening to their state.  Man-made climate change is being promoted for nefarious purposes.

Promoting wind and solar while condemning greenhouse gas sources will only hurt the pocketbooks of Illinoisans and hinder the state’s economic recovery.

 

 

Two articles were published in tandem, but a day apart, detailing the out-of-control and severe financial status of Illinois.

 

The following article in the Chicago Tribune by Julie Wernau in the Business Section on Wednesday, January 18, ComEd to receive more solar power, captured my attention:

“Beginning in July, Commonwealth Edison Co. customers will receive more power from the sun, thanks to a solar project under way in LaSalle County.

The 23-megawatt project by Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, using technology from General Electric Co’s renewable arm, will be the largest solar project in the Midwest”  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-18/business/ct-biz–0118-solar-farm-20120118_1_solar-project-solar-panels-solar-power

Invenergy’s new solar project in LaSalle County, with its thin film solar panels and inverters, are expected to fill 160 acres and provide power to 4,000 homes.
 
In the same Trib article, Wernau informed readers that the 60 acres, 2.3 megawatt solar project planned for LaSalle County will be located next to another already functioning  project by Invenergy, its Grand Ridge-wind farm, “where 140 of GE’s 1.5 megawatt wind turbines will produce 210-megawatts of power.”  Through research, I found that the Grand Ridge-wind farm covers 28,000 acres.
 
Some background information:  Invenergy and its affiliated companies develop, own and operate large-scale renewable and other clean energy generation facilities in North America and Europe with its home office in Chicago.  Invenergy and its affiliated companies have developed and placed in service twenty-six wind farms, making Invenergy one of the top six largest owners of wind generating facilities in the U.S.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4850990

As if Julie Wernau’s Trib article informing readers of a new Invenery Illinois solar plant and of an existing wind turbine farm weren’t enough to stir my thoughts toward one of total disbelief, Wernau further let slip that Exelon Corp’s LaSalle nuclear power plant is located in close proximity to Invenergy’s solar project and functioning wind farm.
 
Although my educational background is in music education, I have written numerous articles about the Zion Dual Nuclear Plant, located about 15 miles south of my home in Lake Bluff, IL  When standing on Lake Bluff’s Sunrise Beach, I could see the dual towers of the Zion’s Nuclear Facility looking northward from Lake Bluff.  http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2010/06/why-i-think-th...
 
My Nuclear Energy knowledge resulted from extended back and forth communication with David Hollein, a Barrington Hills resident, who during his career at Westinghouse led a number of projects worldwide where he because acquainted with some powerful people.  At one point in his career,  Mr. Hollein had charge of Westinghouse’s Commonwealth Edison projects and had the lead for at least three two-unit power stations, including the Zion’s Dual Nuclear Facility. Built in 1973, the first Zion unit started producing power in December, 1973.  The second unit came on line in September of 1974.
  
Zion’s Nuclear Facility is presently being decommissioned by Zion Solutions, and when completed over a ten- year time period at a cost close to a billion dollars paid for by electric rate payers in northern Illinois, the Zion Facility will be but a blurb in history of a Plant shut down unnecessarily and prematurely in 1998.  Zion’s decommissioning will result in the loss of  2,100 MWs of clean, cheap electricity from a power generating station site covering 257 acres. Zion used as its cooling pool Lake Michigan:  Intake structure – 2,600 ft. off shore; Discharge structure – 760 ft. off shore.  

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/v1/part02.html

And what about Exelon Corp’s LaSalle Nuclear power plant mentioned in Julia Wernau’s article?  The LaSalle Dual Nuclear Station covers 3,055 acres which includes a man-made cooling lake of 2,058 acres. LaSalle’s Unit 1 is capable of generating 1,138 net megawatts; Unit 2 is capable of generating 1,140 net MW.  Together the units can produce enough energy to power more than 2.3 million average American.
 
I have no fault with Julie Wernau’s Trib article.  She is an excellent reporter who covers Energy Issues for the Trib and only presented the facts as she found them.

Why then am I so upset with the facts in Julia Wernau’s Trib article?
 
The answer lies here:  Before Zion’s shut down in 1998, it was producing 2,100 MWs of power, enough power for 2 million homes.  Lasalle is now producing 2,278 MWs of power, enough to power 2.3 million average American homes.

It upsets me that wind and solar power are being considered as viable energy sources here in Illinois under the assumption that they can supply the state with its increasing, future energy needs.  
 
The sum total of megawatts from the new Invenergy solar power project upon completion is 2.3 MW.  Combined with the l.5 MWs of power produced at Invenergy’s Grand Ridge-wind farm with its 140 turbines covering 28,000 acres, they add up to a paltry 3.8 MWs of power!
 
This amount of energy is trivial in comparison to the massive amount of energy produced by just one nuclear plant which on the average provides 1,000 MWs of green, safe, efficient, and inexpensive power.
 
I don’t  hold any ill feelings against companies such as Chicago-based Invenergy LLC who are only looking to make a buck from their investments in wind and solar as the accepted flavors of the day.  

Such companies are being developed and spurred on by climate-warming prophets like Al Gore, who claim that the earth is facing unstoppable destruction due to man-made global warming, if man’s dependence on fossil fuels for energy is not abandoned in favor of green energy source — such as solar and wind — which are not filthy and which do not pollute the earth with CO2 emissions.
 
The idea of wind and solar power as sources capable of providing vast amounts of power is but a pipe dream, but if there is money to be made through hefty government subsidies to invest in wind and solar power — without which wind and solar would not be profitable ventures — companies will continue to invest in these renewable, green energy sources until they are no longer profitable to operate.  Abandonment will occur, as is happening in Europe, when government subsidies dry up.  Looking into he future, this nation’s landscape will be dotted with rusting wind turbines and abandoned solar power sites.
 
To be emphasized:  Wind and solar power are produced only when the wind blows and the sun shines.  Back-up energy must be provided when Mother Nature rations both the wind and the sun.
 
Concerning wind turbines, there is not a single-wind farm in the world that pays for itself without massive government subsidies.  It would take a wind turbine farm covering 300 square miles to produce 1,000 MWs of power.  Compare this to one nuclear facility which on the average produces 1,000 MW of energy on a site measured in acres, not in square miles!
 
Blame must be placed on fool-hardy Illinois legislators who have jumped head-long and feet-first into the unrealistic and unscientific Al Gore premise that Global Warming exists, and that it’s a man-made phenomena.  

As cited by Julia Wernau in her aritlce, “Passed by Illinois legislators and under state law, utilities must receive one-half of 1 percent of their power from solar (AND WIND?) by 2012, with that total doubling each (tripling between 2012 and 2013) until it reaches 6% in 2015.”
 
Further research by Julie Wernau would have revealed that Illinois legislators have likewise mandated that 18% of Illinois’s energy should come from wind and solar power by 2025.  According to Wernau, Illinois has not even reached its mandated 2011 goal of one half of one percent.
 
Illinois is blessed in having an estimated 211 billion tons of coal lying beneath the state.  This demonstrated coal reserve base is the second largest in the U.S., and, for bituminous coal, the largest in the nation. Illinois coal resources hold more British thermal units (measure of heat) than all of Saudi Arabia’s and Kuwait’s oil reserves combined.   http://sz0092.ev.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=75986 
  
Coal production is a major part of the Illinois economy. In 2004, the state produced over 31 million short tons of coal worth an estimated $819 million dollars, which ranked it 9th in the nation in coal production.  Coal deposits lie under 37,000 square miles of Illinois, about two thirds the entire state.  Recoverable coal reserves are estimated to total 30 billion tons, accounting for almost one-eighth of the nation’s total coal reserves and one-fourth of bituminous coal reserves. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Illinois_and_coal <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Illinois_and_coal> 
 

So why the push in Illinois for producing more and more energy through the renewable sources of solar and wind?  Granted, in comparison to western coal, Illinois coal is high in sulfur, and even when cleaned the sulfur content averages 2 to 3 percent by weight. But this isn’t the only reason why environmental groups are lobbying against coal-fired plants in Illinois.

As with the Obama administration, Illinois Democrat legislators have become enamored with and dedicated to Al Gore’s unscientific hypothesis that man-made Global Warming, with its culprit CO2, must be phased out.  Irrational thoughts about saving the earth through the development of wind and solar power continue to swirl around in the misguided brains of Springfield Democrat legislators.
 
In yet another Trib article by Julie Wernau published June 11, 2011, Consumers’ electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close, Wernau warns how stricter EPA regulations, which have already been put in place, will force some power generators to decide to shutter their coal-fired plant, rather than to comply with the costly improvements mandated by the EPA.

Wernau’s article further informs readers that starting in 2014 the average residential customer in ComEd’s territory would see increases of $107 to $178 a year.  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-11/business/ct-biz-0612-rates-20110611_1_generators-electricity-illinois-power-agency 

 
Every single source of energy besides fossil fuel and nuclear is either less convenient, more expensive, or both.  Right now there is no alternative that is economically competitive with oil, coal, gas and nuclear.
 
Some time ago I received a communication from Howard Hayden, Prof. Emeritus of Physics at the University of Connecticut, an expert on wind, solar and nuclear power, who shared with me this salient comment which says it all!:
 
“We are not going to run this country on chicken manure, sunbeams and breezes.  It is an unconscionable waste of money to subsidize phony energy sources and to look for the Holy Climate Knob in the sky.”