{"id":2443948,"date":"2019-05-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/support-clean-energy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:06:20","slug":"support-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/support-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Support clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Linda Waag\u2019s letter Tuesday (Spare entrance the solar blight,\u201d The Aspen Times) reminded me of my response to a friend who complained about the visual pollution of windmills that one sees while driving Interstate 70 in Kansas, which was to tell him that he doesn\u2019t complain about the visual pollution generated by the oil industry, which he supports by driving his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lucky for him, he doesn\u2019t live in east Houston or next to an oil port. He lives near you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Your nimbyism is not appreciated while you drive and fly all over God\u2019s creation leaving your pollution behind you to accumulate overtime with billions of people causing all sorts of infrastructure havoc and environmental wreckage. Lucky you, you don\u2019t live in the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">News flash: The United Kingdom Parliament just became the first national legislative body to proclaim a climate change emergency. We all need to do our part because our grandchildren will ask us, \u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Tom Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/support-clean-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Waag\u2019s letter Tuesday (Spare entrance the solar blight,\u201d The Aspen Times) reminded me of my response to a friend who complained about the visual pollution of windmills that one sees while driving Interstate 70 in Kansas, which was to tell him that he doesn\u2019t complain about the visual pollution generated by the oil industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 22:33:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}