... to our state representatives urging them to not support recently proposed special surtaxes on electricity sold back to the grid by small, Eco-friendly (Solar, Wind, Hydro) producers. I decided to make it simple and to the point.
I live in Oil Country; I share the roads with the tankers and oilfield workers who break their backs every day to feed this nation's hunger for energy and I fix their computers when they break on the job. I spend time with them every day, and I talk with them while we work. Even THEY know, maybe better than all of us, that OIL is NOT the future; it is just the way they can make a living RIGHT NOW for their families.
Don't throw the future away just so greedy Oil Executives can get richer a little bit longer... this country, our future, is not some business to be hacked apart into "Saleable Assets" for the profit of the "Corporate Raider" mindset.
When the last drop is gone (well, the last drop they can get cheaply because our leaders can be so easily and cheaply bought), you will have outlived your usefulness to them; and they will throw you under the bus for the sake of their greed, letting YOU take the blame.
Don't be a stooge. Support Clean Electricity (NOT Oil, Gas, Coal or Nuclear-Generated Electricity) today, when we NEED it to be able to turn the tide on pollution and climate change, NOT tomorrow, when you are looking for a new can of whitewash to paint your political career clean again. By then, there will be no clean anything left for anyone.
We are NOT as stupid as you may think we are; and we DO remember who screwed us over. EVEN the dumb ones remember once it's happened enough times; it's not like we haven't ALL been screwed over by our leaders a few hundred times already. This year.
Respectfully yours,
Paul & Elizabeth Krajewski