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The Rocky Mountain Foundation has neither “pets” nor “enemies” in the energy mix. We believe sources long in use like oil, gas, coal, and nuclear are indispensable. We also believe electricity sources in their commercial infancy like solar and wind might become significant. As residents of Northern States either complain of colder, snowier winters, or revel in the terrific skiing they produce, more and more eyebrows are being raised in response to the global warming claims of former vice president Al Gore and others. Those claims, for example, underpin statutory requirements forcing Coloradans to pay a growing subsidy for electricity from sources that free markets apparently won’t yet support. On another side of our Nation’s economy, producers of fuels like coal, oil and natural gas are important high-paying employers. They are also major contributors to the tax base of the state and many political subdivisions. On the other hand, they also face great challenges from interests such as those competing for land use or opposed on environmental grounds. Many share a concern that our state and federal governments’ energy policies are influenced by ideology – and science that may have become so politicized as to be a replay of the tragedy of eugenics a century ago – rather than by real science and sound economics. Examining and reporting on this important subject will be Rocky Mountain Foundation’s initial policy focus. Note: As George Santayana reminded us, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Read here what history teaches about politicized science and pseudoscience.
Nobel Gaffe – Peace Laureate Gore Is a Threat to Peace RMF president John Dendahl observes an irony: a man whose policies are more likely a threat than a path to peace received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Carbon-free fad is a recipe for economic disaster In an op-ed published by the Rocky Mountain News, RMF president John Dendahl cites some large Colorado companies as appeasers, defined by Winston Churchill as “one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." You Can’t Have It Both Ways, Fellas “Tim Wirth, Ted Turner, Al Gore, et al, have the resources to know that nuclear energy must be used far more extensively if they are serious about a transition away from fuels that produce carbon dioxide. Until they advocate nuclear energy, their worry about global warming should be considered a flat-out lie and ignored.” Read RMF president John Dendahl’s letter in The Denver Post here. Gov. Ritter spreads “New Energy Economy” propaganda Public policy development is skewed by outrageous claims made by public officials either favoring or disfavoring an energy source. Last October, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter larded up his rhetoric in favor of the so-called “New Energy Economy” with the claim that some 90,000 Colorado jobs had been created by “the renewable energy industry.” The Ritter claim was lifted from a report out of Boulder from the American Solar Energy Society. Vincent Carroll, editor of the editorial pages at the Rocky Mountain News, opined as to what he discovered when he “looked beneath the covers” of that society’s promotional report. Cautionary note to Gov. Ritter: Vladimir Lenin famously said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” A few years later, Adolph Hitler said something similar and his man Joseph Goebbels said, “It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.” Lenin, Goebbels and Hitler aren’t good models! Read Vincent Carroll’s commentary here.
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