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Letter From a Down Maine Prepper on Solar Heating “I Don’t Want to Share My Social Security Check With the Electric and Oil Companies…
“The newspaper headline says, “Tar sands cause heated environmental, economic debate in Maine”.
What is there to debate? Some of us rural Maine folk are already heating our hot water and generating electricity with solar energy. I’m even heating my cellar floor with solar radiant heat and have moved my office into a 75 degree cellar.
You remember that Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia said, “I would like to see Saudi Arabia using 100 percent renewable energy within my lifetime.” In the same article you read, “While the oil rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia announces to the world it’s embracing the goal of 100 percent green energy, most politicians in America are afraid to make such a bold statement out of fear of losing shocking sums of money that the fossil fuel industry and individuals ‘donate’ to sway elections and manipulate legislation, a force strangling our attempt to wean ourselves from dirty energy and embrace a clean energy future.”
You know that I don’t have a beard and long hair. I don’t eat granola and I can’t even spell yougart. I didn’t do it to help the environment. I built solar collectors because I’m a very conservative, greedy person and didn’t want to share my social security check with the electric and oil companies.
Is an old Maine man betraying his country when he goes out in his barn and fumbles around until he’s built 8 solar hot water heaters that slash his oil and electric bills? I taught an adult class on how to build solar collectors at the Camden High School and I suspect that 13 people felt cheated when they discovered that it is nothing more than a box with a pipe in it.
Why aren’t you doing it? If you hide your solar collectors in a sunny spot out back your neighbors and your oil dealer will never need to know —- he’ll think you’ve had Evergreen insulate the place. Saudi Arabia plans to use solar energy and sell their oil at sky-high prices to the last sucker standing.
Let’s see if we can figure out who that will be.”
Robert Karl Skoglund, The humble Farmerhttp://www.facebook.com/n/?robert.k.skoglund&mid=77720faG2f032bc2Gbf09c3fG79&bcode=1.1359815628.AbmDUdKGlAOgsoHm&n_m=tomdennen%40gmail.com
