So It Begins

Just great... Boulder, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Berkeley, passed a carbon tax initiative. Of course, the new tax funds a new office and inspections, not alternative fuels research. The utility will be collecting the taxes, and says credits will be given to those who have switched to wind power, which will be determined by the inspectors. Wind power does not generate as much electricity as the coal plants, so I hope all the residents don't opt for it, otherwise they're going to have a lot of shortages. We'll see how much the residents like their new power supply when they turn on all their air conditioners next summer.

Oh, and one quibble: the article called carbon dioxide the "main greenhouse gas." Wrong! It's water vapor that accounts for 95 percent of the greenhouse gases that could be causing global warming.