Renewable Energy's Opponents
I’m guessing that perhaps 5% or so of the blog posts here at 2GreenEnergy have been utilized to “call out” numbskulls who publicly attack the concept of renewable energy. A good example is the recent flurry of posts on Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and the numerous reader comments that followed. Here, we took a considerable amount of cyberspace to lay bare his obvious conflict-of-interest position with the oil industry – the force that put him into office in 1994 and keeps him there today.
Again, I seldom go after a particular person; I try to refrain from doing that, in part because of the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt’s great quote:
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
At a certain level, Eleanor, I recognize that I’m being small-minded. But in this case, I felt someone had to do it.
My guess is that the Senator and his staff think his comments will be positively received by his constituents. We will find out at when he comes up for reelection. In the strictest sense, every member of Congress has a “conflict of interest” – that is, they do the perceived wishes of their constituents regardless of how it affects the overall US.