Office of Legislator Velasco: Statement on energy policies

[Zanas]

You have my enthusiastic endorsement ! I'm looking forward to working with you in the Legislature.

[Zanas]

December 20, 2012. Atlanta, Georgia:
 Here, in the leading city and epicentre of the New South

Actually, I think Memphis is still the capital city of the IDS, but maybe you were referring to a more unofficial, spiritual leadership.

[Zanas]

I would like to strongly endorse you for your bid for IDS Legislature. Last class B election in December saw the election of BenKenobi and BaconKing, IDS' two BKs. BenKenobi went on to resign of his Speakership and his seat, and was replaced by jerryarkansas by nomination of PiT. I don't think he'll be running again this time, but you never know. BaconKing, while I think he is on our side, has been blatantly absent from the House for a majority of his term, and I don't know if he'll run for reelection, or get it if he does.

So it's a clear and nice shot for you this time, since as far as I can go back no one has declared as of yet.

I'll also take the occasion to remind us that were Duke to be elected to VP in the Presidential vote, there would be one vacant seat in the IDS again. PiT seems to have a tradition of appointing someone of the same political affiliation to replace it, but in that case TPP has only 3 members in the IDS : Duke, BaconKing, and AndrewPA, whom I don't know if he's very active, at least I seldom get to see him around here. So if BaconKing gets elected class B, and Duke gets elected VP, maybe we should have someone up and ready to offer, someone Labor or close to us, to offer PiT for the replacement.

[Zanas]

My wholehearted congratulations ! Your arrival at my sides here on the benches of the Imperial Legislature of the South has been long waited for ! We have to make things fine and right in the South. I waited for the election cycle to end before spurring back activity in the House, but now we will proceed and hopefully pass some great legislation. If I can make a suggestion, maybe you could work with our fellows Seatown and Griffin on wrapping up a "Public Energy for the South Act" of some kind to introduce as your first bill ?

[Zanas]

I salute Velasco's effort to open a wider debate on energetic policy. I'm looking forward to his insight and proposals on the matter.

As a sidenote, I'd just want to say that it is necessary, as a first and foremost priority, to make energy savings. What our opponents is the nuclear debate didn't understand, is that it won't be possible to replace all our present energetic production with renewable energies. We are bound to produce less, so we must consume less, a lot less. We have to make buildings, transportation, industries, as energetically efficient as possible, and we have to do it now.

Because even solar power is not a renewable energy, as we need germanium to build those panels and you don't have an infinity of that either. Really, the only infinite energies we can identify are gravity (therefore hydro-electricity), wind, and tides. But we simply cannot rely on those to replace our whole production. That's not feasible, so we need to consume less.