Letter: Power plant protesters could be more productive about issue
July 14, 2008
To the Editor:
We all hate to hear it, but currently we still need to use coal and oil for energy. New alternatives are being introduced every day, and even with rising gas prices, oil and coal are still apparently the most cost effective... probably because we know they work. I was disheartened to hear that a protest group (the Earth First! folk featured in last Thursday’s Athens NEWS) is so against bringing much-needed jobs to our area through a clean-coal facility. Clean-coal technologies are being set into action at many facilities in the U.S. For more info on how they work, check out http://www.world-nuclear.org.
The main difficulty here is convincing others that a major nonprofit like AMP-Ohio is trying to work with what we know in a cleaner, more effective way since we have not found a guaranteed substitute yet. Alternatives are being researched every second, and I’m as mad as you that we don’t have 100 percent electric cars yet, but as long as someone is trying to both improve the management of resources we’re already using and provide many jobs for impoverished areas, protests should be called off.
All those people getting maced could have been more productive by forming a group to research and produce fuel and energy alternatives. Didn’t they think of that? Why kill a day stopping someone else’s productivity when you could be changing the world?
Tiffany Teofilo
East State Street
Athens
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