Tony, you should do a segment on how states like Vermont are using extortion tactics worked into their property tax code to force people to "harvest" their forests to supply biomass electric generation. If you own forested land in VT and want your taxes to be affordable by putting your land into "current use", then you are forced to have a forester (i.e. logger) draw up a "forestry plan" for your land, which means you are basically forced into letting them cut your trees. It's a mafia style government enforced protection racket for the logging industry, which largely sells your "product" to either power plants or wood pellet home heating fuel production.

I have talked with green energy supporters in the past. I remind them of the unreliable nature of the wind to generate power. Their typical response is that we will have batteries to back up the wind and solar power. I try to explain how ridiculous that is. First is the huge cost in dollars and in destruction of the environment to mine the minerals. Second is how are to charge these batteries. They don't realize that they will need at a minimum double the green energy output to charge the batteries while still supplying the needed power for consumers. These people just do not understand the scale of what this pipe dream is. Then add in the need to charge electric cars and we are looking to more than double the current electric power consumed today. Will the general public wake up to this hoax of CO2 causing global warming? We can only hope they will begin to see through all the lies before it is to late.

Unreliable wind power... and at the expense of millions of birds. I think this is a retarded idea, as should most?

Thanks