We Hear Talk

editors | 16 June, 2010 16:04

Dear Editors:

People hear talk of energy; coal, oil, nuclear and solar, but the real issue is not energy – it is authority. Government has taken authority away from the citizen and we must take it back. There will be no need for tax credits, grants, incentives, subsidies of any kind. There will be no NREL. We will use businesses to do our own shopping for energy, light, heat and cold.

There are squadrons of people who have gained favor with government and will not easily go along with this; people with grants, with government contracts, people who sell solar tax credits, people who work for government labs.

Who will do what we do if you take away our grants, they will ask. I say maybe no one, maybe no one needs what you do.

What this influential mass of our population has been good at is having us forget. Forget what works, forget how to walk, how to ride a bicycle, forget clothes lines, windows and skylights. Forget inexpensive, traditional ways of using the sun and instead create a new “solar” energy that is patented, financed by investment bankers, expensive and subsidized by tax money.

There is another way to run society. Government makes rules we play by. They do not handle society’s money. Government must guide by curbing what it bad, not by pretending to create good things. Government has no source of good things except by taking.

How have our buildings regressed in this solar age to have so few windows and skylights to need the electric lights on all day?

We can light, heat and cool our buildings without Government. Businesses can sell the equipment, even solar equipment like windows without government “help”. But, people couldn’t have new ideas, could they, without government grants to Universities and labs, could they? Yes they could, and have and will again. America need not extinguish itself.

Sincerely,

Steve Baer

President

Zomeworks Corp.

1011 Sawmill Rd

Albuquerque, NM 87104

Phone: 505-242-5354 / 800-279-6342

Fax: 505-243-5187

zomework@zomeworks.com

www.zomeworks.com