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Scott Lamb: Ubiquitous squeaky wheels - Longmont Times-Call
It was with no small sense of irony that I read in Feb. 28 edition of the Times-Call that the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association brought its annual Green Car Convoy, including natural gas-powered vehicles to Longmont, where the local environmental extremists have aligned themselves with the Sierra Club to make producing natural gas as difficult as possible, if not impossible.
Last June, one of the first compressed natural gas stations opened in Firestone, part of a chain of stations county commissioners plan for Northern Colorado to promote the clean fuel and the automobiles that use CNG. Of course, the front page of the same day's paper had a story with the headline "Firestone wells may violate Longmont ban."
Finally, also in the day's paper, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back, I read that "Erie puts off pursuit of broadband service," for which a feasibility study would cost $50,000, exactly the same cost of the entirely worthless ground water-monitoring equipment demanded by a local-yokel anti-natural gas development group!
How many unintended consequences must we suffer before we understand that we are letting a small number of ubiquitous squeaky wheels grease us into substandard air quality, expensive fuel and slow Internet service
It was with no small sense of irony that I read in Feb. 28 edition of the Times-Call that the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association brought its annual Green Car Convoy, including natural gas-powered vehicles to Longmont, where the local environmental extremists have aligned themselves with the Sierra Club to make producing natural gas as difficult as possible, if not impossible.
Last June, one of the first compressed natural gas stations opened in Firestone, part of a chain of stations county commissioners plan for Northern Colorado to promote the clean fuel and the automobiles that use CNG. Of course, the front page of the same day's paper had a story with the headline "Firestone wells may violate Longmont ban."
Finally, also in the day's paper, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back, I read that "Erie puts off pursuit of broadband service," for which a feasibility study would cost $50,000, exactly the same cost of the entirely worthless ground water-monitoring equipment demanded by a local-yokel anti-natural gas development group!
How many unintended consequences must we suffer before we understand that we are letting a small number of ubiquitous squeaky wheels grease us into substandard air quality, expensive fuel and slow Internet service
