Newswire: Power Plant Passes

Springfield voters approved a new power plant, 59% to 41%. Turnout was 18%. As in the 2004 vote when we voted no on it the first time, high turnout areas supported it; low turnout areas turned it down.

*scowl*

Well at least I voted, thus buying myself the right to gripe long and loud about this load of crap!

Damnit! We said no once, why the heck wasn't it enough? When did the city of Springfield become an insistent 5 year old?

("Can I?" "no" "Can I?" "no" "Can I PLEEEEEASSE!?!" "fine, as long as you shut up and quit begging!")

Barring that, when did the public become a bunch of placating worms who can't stand their ground?

Of course all the good little sheeple say "oh good, now we won't have to spend so much cash on sunscreen because the city will provide it for us for free! All that lovely smog and particulate matter will block the sun's harmful rays from my delicate skin, lowering my rich of skin cancer."

Of course there's all those other cancers and health problems they just voted for themselves and their children for a plan to spend millions building something we can't even support, but that will instead have to use even more gas to truck in all of the coal to burn (You didn't think we had coal here, did you? Nope, we ship it in on trucks & trains) Of course if City Utilities were willing to listen to the people and our cries for alternative energies (beyond their 2 token solar panels and 2 small windmills), then this would have not been an issue. But no, they'd much rather kill the children than use intelligent thinking.

When I think of how many of the new, higher wattage, lower cost, flexible sheet solar panels and wind turbines the million and such set aside for this project could have purchased.... *shakes head and sighs*

Sometimes it feels so useless trying to fight with ignorance. As my grandfather might say "Don't confuse them with the facts, they've got their minds made up"