Sunday, March 12, 2017

March 12, 2017

Mayor Frank Ortis
10100 Pines Blvd.
Pembroke Pines, FL 33026

RE: “Think globally; act locally” – Some comments on your mini Op-Ed in today’s Sun Sentinel in which you proclaim your fealty and obeisance to Ned Lud.

Mayor Ortis,

You want to “ban fracking in Florida”. [Full disclosure requires me to tell you that I fracked my first well 150 miles south of Houston in January, 1974. Both the Republic and I have survived.]

Here are some inconvenient truths, the ones that make modern American Liberals
squirm.

#1 – Fracking in America began not quite 3 score and 10 years ago.
#2 – It, plus slant drilling, has opened up incalculable amounts of natural gas at lower and lower prices. The opening of the Keystone pipeline will make this county energy independent by the end of the first Trump administration. The effect on the balance of trade deficit will be astonishing.
#3 – Coal, dirty coal, the bete noire of energy ohmadahns, is no longer the utility’s first choice. Tom Steyer, who made billions and billions of dollars selling dirty coal, coal that could not be used in this country, may need to have a fund raiser for himself.
#4 - Do you have a problem with clean energy produced in America by Americans?
#5 – If you want to undrown those warm and fuzzy polar bears, the only natural predator of those pesky baby seals, the ones who will soon be invading Maine and North Dakota, you have one highly visible local choice. 
TURN OFF ALL THE A/Cs IN CITY BU ILDINGS!
After you have done that you may want to ration electricity. Frozen food? Fuhgeddaboudit.

The motto of your next campaign should be VOTE FOR ME ‘CUZ I AM A MORON.




Kevin Smith


PS – I have the inside track on Solyndra solar panels. Call me.

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