Dear Mr Opinion,

I'm sure that all of us have known some lousy
doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, and many
other people in a variety of various professions.

Unfortunately the faults lie in the people
themselves.

Dear Foxy,

True, but it just happens to be intrinsic among engineers.

Hey SteeleRedux,
"But they want those comforts to come from renewable energy. What is wrong with that old boy?"

- Absolutely nothing, in principle -

I'd be happy for ALL our energy needs to come from the sun, wind and hydro if it were feasible.

I'm certainly not against implementing things which have a lower impact on the environment.

I support and commend all of these ideas and efforts.

But here's the catch...

'The bigger picture'.

And the bigger picture is, 'I won't support cutting my nose off to spite my face'.

I'm not going to support our nation shooting itself in the foot economically, when nations are funded by debt.

It's not like we've got all this cash stuffed under the bed we don't know what to do with.
All of these agendas on put more constraints on everyone's ability to move to better technology.

Governments:
Take this article as an example;
With the result being 'It's costing us more to achieve nothing'
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=20491

This does nothing to help us create clean energy, it just keeps us broke.

I read somewhere that money designated to the clean energy fund will be spend dealing with waste.

Think about consumers;
When you charge them more for everything under climate change agendas; cutting down coal plants, driving up the cost of everything;

Then they can't afford to buy solar panels.

Everything has a flow on effect.
I support better ideas and a move to better ways of creating energy.
But I won't shoot ourselves in the foot to do it.

This doesn't mean that I think the government is going about things the right way at the moment.
I'll happily support better policies, it's just that don't have them yet.

* "cutting down coal plants"?
It would be interesting thing to see.
Sorry about that, I meant 'shutting'.

Armchair critic,
I really wish they'd just shut down Coal-powered stations for a week every month just as a trial for when the morons get their way. Then we could see who screams the loudest for power without a care where it comes from.

Not that I care, but MrO and Foxy are still raving on about me being an engineer.

These people are just immune to facts. If they want to believe it, it becomes true.