We must switch to renewable energy before it’s too late
Re: “Wind, solar would generate … even higher electric bills,” May 19
Your “charticle” suggests that we face a choice between cheap coal energy or expensive renewable energy. But that isn’t the question we face in the long run. The question is whether we should move to renewable energy before coal enters decline — or after. We must switch before depletion forces us to if we want to avoid a crisis.
We may not have much time. American anthracite coal production peaked in 1950. Bituminous coal production peaked in 1990. We now rely on ever-increasing quantities of lower-energy coal. This can’t go on indefinitely. Even if global warming isn’t a problem, depletion clearly is.
We face a similar problem with oil. Our production peaked in 1970. Globally, since 1980 we’ve been burning more oil than we discover. We must leave fossil fuels before they leave us.
Carl Henn
Rockville
When it comes to our income, Obama is not the decider
Re: “What ‘enough money’ means,” May 19
Mr. Thomas Sowell’s example was a bit outlandish, but his overall point is great. One of the arguments used by the Left to legalize gay marriage is: “Why do you get to decide what is moral and what isn’t?”
This same standard should be applied to Barack Obama. His “enough money” statement to Wall Street was tantamount to saying, “I’ll say when you’ve made enough.” It reminded me of his campaign, when he advocated “sharing the wealth.” I doubt he has the same attitude toward the unions that back him.
Mr. Sowell accurately wrote that the more people make, the more they donate. The only reason Obama would want to cap income is so that any excess could be taken by the government to be spent by the government. And we all know how great that’s worked out.
Mike Soh
Alexandria
Arizona immigration law is about self-defense
Re: “Furor over Arizona law is really about respect,” May 17
I commend Gregory Kane for his “packing to move to Arizona” statement. Since he is black, it is difficult for anyone but a practitioner of Marxist-Leninist dialectical and historical materialism to call him a racist.
Kane does not mind when his “documents” are checked by a police officer if a road violation has occurred. Just like all of us.
When I moved to Phoenix from Europe in the 1980s, Arizona was a paradise of beauty and peace. No more. The Sonora desert now looks like a landfill or a crop devastated by locusts as millions of uninvited lawbreakers arrogantly push their way through it into the United States.
We are not an open-border tribal society of nomads. Arizona’s new immigration law is self-defense against a home invasion. After 9/11, the French LeMonde wrote: “We are all Americans.” With Gregory Kane I say, “Call us all Arizonans.”
Michael Gloukhov
Fairfax
