- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
What those lawmakers didn’t plan for was that 50 years later, an Oregon citizen activist would use that same bureaucracy to hinder some of the very energy projects that today’s liberals want: wind farms and the new high-voltage lines needed to support them.
They didn’t plan for Irene Gilbert.
The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. She has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all, including lawsuits — than anyone in the state, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.
“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.
I highly recommend you modify you language in the future then. Your original posts were making statement as though you were authoritative to answer, and that your statements were factual. This immediately makes you lose credibility and a whole segment of people will simply ignore/dismiss/block you because you are clearly wrong and don’t appear to have any awareness of it or flexibility to modify your thinking.
Instead of making likely incorrect statements, why not ask questions? Instead of you saying:
Why not ask the question “How much petroleum does it take to make solar panels vs petroleum consumed from traditional power generation sources?”
Ignorance in search of truth is noble. Intentionally stating misinformation to do so is dangerous. What if someone with fewer critical thinking skills reads your post and starts believing that solar panels are worse than burning oil for power? They may act on that and vote down solar power and opt for oil power instead.
Oh yeah I see that now. I’m not any kinda of authority. Just a crazy person who wants to invent even crazier things. I really appreciate your feedback.