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| MESSAGE FROM THE CEO, Douglas Bedgood Nature intended coal, gas, and oil to be buried forever. They represent death and decomposition, dead vegetation from old swamps under pressure for millions of years. These carbon fossil compositions we use for fuel also represent death today. There is death to the land above the open pit coal mines, poor health and death to the mine workers, death to the atmosphere after combustion, death to nature’s life support systems that took millions of years to develop, and eventually death to the fragile organic skin of our host planet. The green forested mountains of Appalachia are being demolished for an open pit thin layer of coal so that the power plants we have in Florida can produce electricity and a lot of serious air pollution. The distance from the coal mines of Virginia to the Power Plants in Florida seems to make it all acceptable to the blind eye. If in Key West we can’t see the carbon belching into the air at the Florida Municipal Power Agency’s three coal fired units upstate or the many other coal generators at the profit-oriented investor-owned utilities such as Florida Power & Light, Gulf Power, Progress Energy, and the others, then everything must be OK. After all, those dandy electric cars the tourists rent are so quiet and –just think— absolutely no emissions come from all those electric cars. Plug them all in for an all-nighter of juice. Charge up for another clean day and feel no environmental guilt. Does anyone have a photo on their wall of Virginia coal miners with sweat and black soot all over their skin and in their lungs to remind them where electricity comes from? Does anyone download satellite comparables of a shrinking, climate warming, ozone layer and greenhouse effect? Is anyone proud of our human capability and inclination to destroy ourselves and everything around us? I didn’t think so. Citizens of the Lower Florida Keys, the alarm clock sounded a long time ago. It is past time to wake up and replace the source of power with totally green, clean energy. In 2006, Keys Energy paid $60 million for purchased power. After deducting the cost of transmission from upstate Power Plants to the Keys Energy grid, most of that money bought the dirty black rock that is killing our planet along with oil, gas, and any combustible carbon based fuel, ethanol, bio fuel, methane, liquid propane, gasoline, natural gas, incinerators, diesel fuel, the burning of rubber tires, paraffin, charcoal, and wood. Stay tuned for “Nuclear Dead Zones”
and remember that alarm clock.
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