Remember, Berkeley residents, every time you turn on the lights, a golden eagle loses its wings. So use candles. But not made from wax, because that's stealing from bees.

Great.

The Chevy-Suburban-driving soccer moms with Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers need to think through how we're gonna power their microwave ovens, plasma TV's, digital cameras and electronic vibrators.

Let's see . . . nuke? Nope, we'll glow. Coal? Nope, mining rapes the land. Wind? Nope, it kills birds. Oil? Fine, as long as we don't waste resources and lives to protect strategic oil supplies in the Middle East.

Seriously, is there a single source of energy that has not been condemned by liberal pseudo environmentalists? Have they proposed any favorable alternatives? What in the hell are we supposed to do?

Don't get me wrong, I was raised in pristine areas of Alaska, and I am hooked on recreational and artistic activities that require relatively untouched areas of wilderness and ocean bottoms. I consider myself an environmentalist, if one can exist without being an extremely unrealistic militant. So please don't flame me if I'm not the first to stitch yellow ribbons for the dead birds.

I say relocate the wind farms to Washington DC. Hot air alone would quadruple the output, and, really, who would mind the occasional politician or lobbyist getting decapitated by one on occasion?

I say we put a large mirrored solar collector underneath the wind farm and have ourselves a barbeque.

The sum total of energy put in to produce all those windmills barely breaks even with the energy output.
Now, if you idle them during prime bird activity months, they'll most likely be net energy consumers.

Remember, when someone spews statistics on how each windmill pays back many times over, look around. If you look at the Altamont pass, as I have, you will see that many, many of the windmills are sitting idle. Just because a few of them are postioned optimally, and have the benefit of good maintenance, you have to take all of them into account when doing an energy balance. Not surprisingly, I have never been able to find documentation of the actual energy produced there vs. energy put in to build and maintain the windfarm. Gee, wonder why that is?

Seriously, is there a single source of energy that has not been condemned by liberal pseudo environmentalists?

Dude! Biodiesel from hemp is the answer!

Liberal Pseudo Environmentalist Dude!

Air pollution from burning biomass for fuel in California has already been challenged, dude!

/end wan attempt at Dude humor...

I'm always curious why air pollution is the pet peeve of Liberal Environmentalists but their homes are full of smoke. Marijuana produces far in excess of carcinogens to the lungs than do, say, Camels. Much less to the public airs that everyone else has to breathe.

GADS! The environut liberal whackos wont be satisfied until we are all sitting in the dark, freezing or burning up, scratching messages on rocks which we pitch at each other for correspondence.

I'm afraid not, Jim. They'll just say how scratching on rocks is 'tearing at the flesh of Mother Gaia'.