To the Editor:
Channeling President Obama ("electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"), Delegate Plum takes up "green energy" ("Energy Plan Moves VA in Right Direction," Reston Connection, Oct. 22), hilariously hailing President Obama's "much welcomed National Climate Action Plan." Plum is ready to stem the rise of the oceans in the great "climate-change" hoax. "Climate change," note, not now "global warming." Why so? Was insufficient taxpayer money poured into crony-capitalist Solyndra-like scams? "Climate change" itself will doubtless soon give way to "weather event" or similar.
Aggressive action (of course) "will be required" of coal-fired utilities under this plan. Not very welcome news for the mining community, but, then, there's not much mining in Reston. Cheap electricity or expensive renewables? Perhaps the market should decide.
Watch out in Hampton Roads also. The poor folks there, condemned to live beside the cruel sea, are no doubt trembling at the prospect of rising oceans. Mr. Plum does not say how much it will take to tamp the sea level back down to "normal," although "strategic investment" and some "solar energy authority" will likely do the trick.
Perhaps the "settled science" boys could tell us what the ideal temperature in the Commonwealth of Virginia should be before our wallets are raided again. "Climate change" — a chill wind for taxpayers.
Harry Locock
Reston