Was Article 30 only a feelgood measure? I hope not. Let's get going!
Will Gilford put its money where its mouth (vote) is?
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It seems like an eternity since the March elections and I thought this might be a good time to remind the voters of an important issue. Remember Warrant Article #30? This would be the resolution on climate change. A majority of voters approved this measure to send our leaders a message to act on reducing carbon emissions. It also stated that Gilford would create a committee to reduce energy use and save taxpayer money.
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In the absence of any action on this issue I thought I’d make a couple of suggestions to further the cause.
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While standing outside the polls at the middle/high school, I happened to notice a steady flow of SUVs coming to pick up their children. This resulted in a lot of near empty school busses sitting at the school, burning up the fossil fuels for the sake of transporting a few students. Not to mention that all those SUVs arriving to pick up just one child each. I would propose that we make the school zone a NO SUV ZONE. This proposal should be widely accepted because it is already a no gun or drug zone for equally important reasons. Additionally, students should be required to ride the busses. We pay good money for them to be emitting all that Carbon so they ought to be full of students.
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The next action item is to have several windmills placed on top of our surrounding mountains. We are blessed with high windy peaks that would produce good quantities of electricity. I think about 20 of the big 100 foot blade types would do the trick.
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These are just two simple ideas that we could initiate immediately to start saving money and reduce carbon emissions. We aren’t the kind of community that simply believes that this is someone else’s problem. The majority of voters didn’t approve this resolution so that we could simply sleep better at night. Let’s get to work and make a difference!
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Let's put 'em up at Gunstock NOW!
Comments
Terry is right if they only required the buses to pick up all students.
What would be even better would be getting the little darlings to WALK on the taxpayer funded sidewalks they just had to have. I know the kids raised some of the money , But the Taxpayers paid for the rest as always. Payup& shut up we can't go against the children.
Posted by: pricilla | May 21, 2007 02:24 PM
Terry is right if they only required the buses to pick up all students.
What would be even better would be getting the little darlings to WALK on the taxpayer funded sidewalks they just had to have. I know the kids raised some of the money , But the Taxpayers paid for the rest as always. Payup& shut up we can't go against the children.
Posted by: pricilla | May 21, 2007 02:27 PM
Love the sentiment...
Posted by: John Edward Mercier | June 17, 2007 04:24 PM