TO THE EDITOR
“A Great Place To Eat”
EWEB’S CHOICES
Climate and biological science now tells
us that we are cruising on the Titanic, and the
response by local officials at EWEB and
ODOT seems to be adding fuel to the fire and
to rearrange the deck chairs.
What will Eugene do if the glaciers on the
Three Sisters and Diamond Peak disappear in
the next 10 years because of global warming?
Do EWEB and Eugene have projections and
are they preparing for it?
How will this affect the power generation
capacity of EWEB? Eugene customers de-
pend on 20 percent of their electricity from
dams on local rivers.
Instead of preparing for this inevitability,
EWEB seems intent on spending upwards of
$90 million on a new building in west
Eugene. With $90 million, EWEB could
greatly expand incentives to install solar
water heaters, affordable heat pumps and heat
pump water heaters to 60,000 Eugene homes
and rentals.
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However, I wonder if converting your car to
biodiesel is truly a net gain for the planet.
Consider the amount of energy (personal and
mechanical) that must be expended to design,
build, market, distribute and install each con-
verter, not to mention the additional energy
(above gasoline) required to manufacture,
market and distribute the alternative fuel. I
am not an economist, but on the surface it
seems like we are expending a lot of energy
to conserve a little.
You also read about someone who has
built a million dollar house that is energy effi-
cient and based on sustainable materials. Isn’t
there some hypocrisy there based upon that
same logic? Whatever ongoing energy is
saved seems to be way offset (by an exponen-
tial factor) by the energy expended in the pro-
duction of the house in the first place.
It is possible the discussion of alternative
fuels and sustainable housing is taking our
eye off the real ball — that is to simply use
less. People who buy new cars or biodiesel
converters or those building new, expansive
homes — even though they are energy-effi-
cient — may operate under a guise of feel-
goodism and may still be guilty of over-con-
suming our natural resources.
Think about it.
Michael Kelm
Eugene
Hello! I understand that
Eugene’s “Readin’ in the
Rain” series will be honor-
ing Eugene author Kenny
Moore and that the series’
kick-off event will be held
this year at Barnes &
Noble.
Wait a minute! This se-
ries is focused on a local
writer and local readers, so
why have the kick-off
event at a corporate book-
store instead of at one of
Eugene’s independently
owned bookstores? Or co-
ordinate this series with the
local Artists and Authors
Fair at the county fair-
grounds; why not hold both events the same
time at the county fairgrounds? Not only
would it save Eugeneans’ money, but it
would make sense to hold both at same lo-
cale!
Charles F. Thielman
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