Saving your children's lives is a job killer

One could only conclude that the protectors of the old fashion incandescent light bulb personally must have lots to lose. Losing as in investments in the coal burning electric company. More like losses in coal and hydrocarbon types of dirty generated energy.

As most of us know, the old fashioned incandescent light bulb is to be phased out come January one. The Edison light bulb is to be replaced by a more efficient lesser electricity-consuming bulb. Consuming less energy at least by 25-percent.

However, the coal burning power companies and their Congressional representatives don’t want this to happen. It will cut into profits. Profits made by selling mega watts of electricity. Also cut into profits from the coalmines. All of which seriously pollute the air, water, and ground. Polluted smoke filled air saturated with mercury and other heavy toxic metal particulates.

And it seems that only the Republicans are the defenders of the old style bulb. The bulb, which is more heat than light. Thus drawing more electricity that a more efficient CFL or LED light.

And we can only conclude that the Republicans in Congress are receiving the lion’s share of coal burning power company lobby money. Right? Right!

Republicans have created legislation to stop the energy saving bulbs. Plus encouraging the usage of the old fashioned Edison energy draining bulb. All done by claiming the government is interfering in our lives. More like interfering with the profits of the coalmine and electricity company’s shareholder profits.

So what the Republicans are saying in actuality is they must pollute the air and risk your lives and the lives of your children in order to make a profit. Right? Right! How else could it be? “Inefficiency and Pollution trumps good health. Get over it.”

Pollution is job killers

There are always two sides to a story. But if we just listen to the pro-pollution conservative, you would think they were fighting a battle against “Regulation Mongers.” Regulation for regulation’s sake. Regulations that is loved and embraced by legislating control freaks. Sometimes known as Liberals.

You would think there is a war against job producing industries. Industries such as coal burning power plants, mounting top exploding coal mining, hydraulic fracturing gas producers, and others. And again, war against businesses that create jobs. Jobs the out of work would like to have.

But wait, it seems regulation are put in place to protect us from ourselves. Jobs that produce hazardous or polluted environments. Polluting ground water. Damaging and polluting nearby streams and animal habitats. Pollution that fills the air with hazardous materials. Mercury and carbon dioxide. Both if ingested or breathed in large quantities could kill people, plant life, and local animals. But to regulate these industries is a job killer. Never mind the byproduct of CO2 and mercury can also be a job killer. Killing the workers themselves and their families.

If you want to talk about job killers, you could make a good case for growing marijuana. Growing marijuana provides many jobs and good money. Why regulate the growing, harvesting, and selling of marijuana? Well, because it is heavily regulated and rightly so.

Never the less, the true conservative could be characterized as pro-smog. Pro-water polluting. Pro-air polluting. And, people killers. From methane polluted ground water to hazardous working conditions for miners. All producing killing situations. The ultimate job killer.

To the Tulsa World Editor

Letter to our local editor

Sunday, August 14, 2011, 1:58:15 PM | Chuck Ayers

Letter to the Editor: A king of denial. Katherine Horton, Tulsa. Sen. James M. Inhofe’s denial of climate change and his contempt for climate scientists and environmentalists are nothing but collusive trickery to promote his agenda of protecting the oil and gas industry. We are already witnessing overwhelming evidence of global climate change: drought (especially here in the Southern Plains, where our farmers are struggling), record heat and cold, rising ocean levels and temperatures, accelerating polar ice melt, upward shift of plant and animal ranges, changes in growing seasons, and extreme weather events. The parallel rise of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and the Earth’s temperature throughout recorded history cannot be denied. Inhofe’s vision is not only myopic, but incredibly disingenuous. His statement that the notion of global warming is “the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” is a cynical ruse meant to indoctrinate and distort the overwhelming scientific evidence. To ignore and ridicule this evidence is nothing short of extreme and willful negligence by someone who was elected to protect the health and welfare of his constituents, not the bottom line of his corporate benefactors. If he were simply a science skeptic, would he be making every effort to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts? Self-serving politics and corporate protection are not what we need. We need leaders with a far-reaching perspective and a true respect for life. For Inhofe to willfully deny reality is not only folly, but a dereliction of duty.