I’m retired military.  I spent 20 years in the Navy’s Nuclear Power Program on submarines.  I’ve seen my share of the gross waste of money.  I remember one repair period where I had to spend over $9000 to get two filters because I needed a spring and a pin.  Those two parts were probably worth $100 combined, but you couldn’t get them without the entire filter.  We’ve all heard of the $600 toilet seats and the other outrageous spending.  Now they are saying we as tax payers are going to install solar panels on military housing.  They say it’ll provide military families with lower cost electricity.  In my time in the Navy I was single so never experienced Navy Housing, but I had friends that did.  I’m pretty sure the military paid for the electricity they used.  From figures I’ve seen for just the installation costs, (not time spent for cleaning or upkeep of the solar panels), solar costs around 40 cents a KWh if figured over the 20 year life span.  If you look at your electric bill you are probably paying around 7 cents a KWh.  A simple way to explain a KWh is if you leave a 100 watt light bulb on for ten hours.  Solar panels are only effective around four hours a day.  Usually the hours we are all at work.  Now this power can be sold back to the utility company, if their system will support it.  Of course once you add government rebates and incentives into the picture it does bring the cost down.  But not anywhere near the seven cent mark.  I’m sure the military got a bargain on the panels too.  Another example of a gross waste in govenment spending!

Have a Coke and a Smile…  Or maybe it should be have a Coke and by some strange twist of environmental madness you can save a polar bear.  I personally think if Coke wanted to do something to save the planet it would shut down its factories.  I mean really, what good does any Coca Cola product do for us?  Simply producing the product pollutes the earth and uses resources better used someplace else.  It would be interesting to see how much electricity and fossil fuels are consumed each year producing, distributing and cooling Coca Cola products.  And assuming “Global Warming” was real, how much does that consumption affect our planet? 

I think the global warming scare is just that.  The bogey man in the closet that will get us if we fail to be good stewards.  How many billions of dollars were earned from this fraud science hyped up by a so many.  Our earth is affected by forces so much greater than anything mankind could do to it.  From violent volcanic eruptions to solar flares throwing cosmic rays our way.  Think of the destruction and recovery this wonderful rock floating in space has lived through.  How egotistical of us to think we can damage it permanently.  Coke should be ashamed at this bogus attempt to get business by supporting a cause that has been proven wrong!