February 2011 Letters

Carbon dioxide just as necessary as oxygen
The latest burst of total nonsense from Washington is the move to allow Environmental Protection Agency to regulate or cap carbon dioxide. Classifying CO2 as a hazardous waste is either the height of stupidity or the total lack of education on the part of those in the EPA. The ultimate goal, I would assume, would be to rid the planet of this so called “hazardous waste.” (Here’s a link to that article.)

Luckily for us this cannot be done. If it were, we would all be dead in a very short time. CO2 is as important to us as oxygen is for our very survival. Most of the oxygen we breathe comes from plant life giving it off as waste during their life. Those plants require CO2 for their survival. Without it they die. Without the plants, we die.

Can’t ANYBODY point out what the unintended consequences of some of these regulations are before the EPA kills all of us?
 
Ron Cates,
Floyd County, Ind.

Ignoring global warming jeopardizes the future
I was very disappointed in the January 2011 articles about the new Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Instead of criticizing the EPA, they should support EPA’s efforts to prevent global warming.

I can understand the concern about higher electric bills, but it’s absolutely necessary to reduce the use of fossil fuels in order to save our existence on this planet.  

To ignore the effects of fossil fuels on global warming in order to keep our electric bills lower is to jeopardize the future of our grandchildren and great grandchildren. I believe the EPA should regulate everything that has an impact on the environment, and I applaud its courage to take on this issue.

The Electric Consumer has published several articles and offered several solutions on how we can lower and/or monitor our electric consumption, but how many customers have taken advantage of those solutions or applied those changes? When the EPA regulations start taking effect and the co-ops are forced to raise their rates, maybe then more customers will be willing to be more “cooperative.”
 
Harold Wilson,
Corydon, Ind.