Georgia Primary Senate and House Endorsements

Written by: publius on Jul 13, 2008 7:15 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Macon - Bibb County DFA, Georgians for Clean Renewable Energy DFA, DFA Atlanta Alumni Crew

Hometown newspaper declined this offering so I share it with DFA. 

Anyone so inclined can sample the local editors' preferences at:

http://www.macon.com/letters/

July 9, 2008

Letters
The Telegraph

The Editors,

The Telegraph came close on its Senate race endorsement but missed the opportunity support Rand Knight as the best choice.  The editorial briefly mentioned Knight's
"idea that we can develop fuel for our vehicles from algae."

The October 2007 edition of National Geographic presented a great survey of biofuels development -

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/10/biofuels/biofuels-text

- weighing the energy, environmental, and human resource cost / benefit implications of various biofuel sources such as corn, sugar cane, cellulose, and the intriguing 
potential of algae-based biofuel production. "While each acre of corn produces around 300 gallons of ethanol a year, each acre of algae theoretically can churn out more than 
5,000 gallons of biofuel each year."  The X-files level of trade secrecy in algae biofuel projects is characteristic of entrepreneurs closing in on a commercial jackpot. 

These days, the US Senate and Georgia would benefit from employing a Senator with  a Ph.D. in ecosystems analysis to probe and prod the cash rich agents of Exxon and Southern Company as they lobby Congress to thwart innovation and allow their companies to continue to burn the public interest with century-old fossil fuel practices. 

Inexcusably, Congressman Jim Marshall has already failed to support renewable energy production by voting against a mandatory renewable fuels portfolio standard directing 
utility companies to generate a minimum of 15 percent of their electric power from renewable resources. That The Telegraph, in the light of Marshall's vote to sustain President Bush's veto of SCHIP, could cite his "knowledge of  health-care issues" as a basis for supporting his claim on the Democratic nomination is bewildering. 

Robert Nowak has done what more conscientious citizens will have to do - commit to placing themselves on the ballot to hold arrogant incumbents accountable and 
give voters a choice.  Central Georgia Democrats who would like to remind the incumbent that this is their primary may vote for the challenger with confidence that, if elected, Mr. Nowak would look past the expediency of the next election and cast decisive votes according to The People's best interests rather than his own. 

Sincerely, 

Ronald Cloud

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Location: Macon, GA