Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King: on Energy & Oil


Windpower: everyone's for progress; no one's for change

San Francisco isn't that far from Yosemite and on the way, we saw an amazing sight--electricity producing windmills on all sides of the pass. We couldn't count them all, but there seemed like at least a thousand, all silently turning against the blue of the sky. They looked cool.

I thought the windmills were so cool, in fact, that after returning t Maine, I got into the windpower business, but it's tough; everybody's for progress, nobody's for change.

Source: Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King, p.118 Aug 16, 2011

Oil & trees aren't ours to use up in our generation

We saw the giant redwoods of the northern California coast. Somehow the idea of cutting down something that took 500 years to grow (there are some more than 2,000 years old) just doesn't seem right. It's like we're taking something away in our one measly generation that doesn't really belong to us. By the way, we're doing the same thing with oil. It took millions of years to make and we're going to use it up in about 150 years. Reminds me of the old saying--pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.
Source: Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King, p.121 Aug 16, 2011

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