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Follow the county’s carbon footprints
I am proud of the County of Kaua‘i. Yes, you heard it right, I am proud of the mayor since, according to The Garden Island news, some Kaua‘i county employees will soon be driving Nissan’s electric Leaf car.
The county purchased five Nissan Leafs through a grant by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The cars have arrived and a few county employees are being trained on their operation.
The county will be installing 10 charging stations at various county facilities. The Nissan Leaf has excellent reviews and, according to my friend in San Diego, it is the quietest car he ever drove. It’s no hybrid; it’s 100 percent electric.
This all translates to savings for the taxpayer since these vehicles never need gas, oil changes, tune-ups, valves, rings, pistons, timing belts, transmissions, transmission fluids or shifting gears to interrupt acceleration, carburetor or air filters, radiator or coolant or hoses to maintain regular power-train maintenance and last but not least no smog checks ever.
Congratulations (Ho‘omaika‘i ‘ana and Mazol Tov) for one of the best investments aside from the pedestrian trail that the county has ever made. We need to follow in the county’s footprints.
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sorry for those who read my opinion article in todays Newspaper, thios is the same, but wanted to keep a record of it by blogging it!
via Facebook;"What is an etrog?"
via Facebook;" Loved your letter published in this mornings Garden Island, and -- as you note -- it works so well with my meager efforts yesterday, that appeared largely due to your encouragement and support (the link to that also appears in this new blog...).
As you've likely noted, I've already responded to the belated critique from those cowering in terror as we onsite consumer generators lead the charge for independence from corporate domination in the production and distribution of centrally controlled energy."
via Facebook;"For some reason, I cannot post on your wall, Jim..can only post under comments."
via Facebook;"People who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about should stop explaining all the reasons solar powered houses and battery powered cars can't work to those of us who are making them work every single day."
via Facebook;"The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Incas and others got it right.
The real life-giving and energy-giving power comes from the SUN GOD!"
via Facebook;"Kimo -- no need to apologize for providing your article in both your blog and the TGI paper.
It deserved both the wider exposure and the encore!"
Deborah Anne, your right, I have my FB wall set-up so only I can post to it, it became to overwhelming with almost 1,000 friends. An etrog is used for the Jewish holiday oif Sukkot beginning at sundown tomorrow, it;s the harvest holiday, it is a biblical fruit and it is believed the fruit of the citron, "And you shall take the fruit of the citron, for more info just google it, I love saying just google it, in facr that is a title of one of my future blogs, I even tell people to go gogle themselves, it's fun and you won't go blind! :D) And yto my friend Doug, the people who comment in the Kauai Garden Island News are mainly negative people, you could find a cure foir cancer and they would find fault in it...
Mahalos Dave, I agree, our frind Doug sure is doing it right!
and remeber you are always welcome as a guest blogger anytime, I know the publisher oif dakinetalk and can probably talk him into running a guesyt blog for you or Doug, or Deborah Anne...
via Kauai Garden Island News;"If you think that carbon footprints are worth anything, then the county's "green" purchase of the Leaf is a joke. All they accomplish is a transfer of the "footprint" to the power company.
The good thing is that the entire CO2 issue is a joke."
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via Kauai Garden Island News;"POWER COMPANIES ON THE DEFENSIVE
“recondog” (3:45pm) -- you sound awfully defensive. Do you work for the power companies? Own a gas station? Invest in oil stocks? You sound scared.
And wrong.
Many here in my state of California, including myself, have also installed solar panels that power our sungod-driven Electric Leafs. As for those who do plug into the grid, please try to understand that a Leaf still uses a fraction of the fossil fuels of an equivalent gas-powered guzzler, and in many areas, including California, neither coal nor oil are used to produce electricity. About 85% is from cleaner domestic natural gas, and 15% from renewable sources, including solar and wind.
But the power companies, and the robotic shills who mindlessly repeat their hollow propaganda, are most afraid of onsite consumer-generators like me who are moving them towards irrelevance.
Peace, prosperity and sunshine to all, DDWiz"
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