Freeman Again
Jun. 21st, 2008 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Former Carter Appointee Warns Against Nuclear Power, Coal, Foreign Oil - Political Affairs Magazine - 21 Jun 08
"Several dozen people arrived at The Carter Center Wednesday night, June 11, 2008, to listen to award-winning energy expert and environmentalist S. David Freeman, whose new book sheds light on America’s deadly addiction to 'three poisons': foreign oil, coal, and nuclear power." "He served on the Federal Power Commission under President John F. Kennedy and helped develop energy policies for Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Freeman even served as the chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority under President Jimmy Carter, a fellow crusader for energy independence."
"'I think liberty is at stake,' Freeman warned. 'I don’t know whether the American people can handle a depression. The 'me now, I’m owed everything' attitude is so strong that I fear what might happen if things got to where they were in the 1930s and 40s.'"
"'I am personally disgusted with the environmental organizations at the Washington level who are sitting around participating as though they were legislators and trying to get some cockamamie cap-and-trade system passed and are not telling the Congress the truth that these poisons need to be outlawed,' he added. Congress could act by offering a $1 billion tax incentive to the first auto manufacturer that produces 100,000 plug-in hybrids and mandate auto manufacturers produce an increasing amount of electric cars each year, Freeman said. 'We need to do something other than just sit and shell out all our money and just gently crawl over the edge of the cliff,' he said."
Former Carter Appointee Warns Against Nuclear Power, Coal, Foreign Oil - Political Affairs Magazine - 21 Jun 08
"Several dozen people arrived at The Carter Center Wednesday night, June 11, 2008, to listen to award-winning energy expert and environmentalist S. David Freeman, whose new book sheds light on America’s deadly addiction to 'three poisons': foreign oil, coal, and nuclear power." "He served on the Federal Power Commission under President John F. Kennedy and helped develop energy policies for Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Freeman even served as the chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority under President Jimmy Carter, a fellow crusader for energy independence."
"'I think liberty is at stake,' Freeman warned. 'I don’t know whether the American people can handle a depression. The 'me now, I’m owed everything' attitude is so strong that I fear what might happen if things got to where they were in the 1930s and 40s.'"
"'I am personally disgusted with the environmental organizations at the Washington level who are sitting around participating as though they were legislators and trying to get some cockamamie cap-and-trade system passed and are not telling the Congress the truth that these poisons need to be outlawed,' he added. Congress could act by offering a $1 billion tax incentive to the first auto manufacturer that produces 100,000 plug-in hybrids and mandate auto manufacturers produce an increasing amount of electric cars each year, Freeman said. 'We need to do something other than just sit and shell out all our money and just gently crawl over the edge of the cliff,' he said."
