July 25, 2018 Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor The Sun Sentinel

July 25, 2018

Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor

The Sun Sentinel

RE: “Solar Energy a Viable Option” – A comment or two on the Op-Ed about doing away with oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy in addition to making us a better people.

Ms. O’Hara,

Before I get to whether “Solar Energy is a Viable Option” or is just modern American Liberal balderdash, poppycock, and tommyrot consisting entirely of tautologies, la di da shibboleths, and endless non-seqjuiturs, I must ask why the rules that apply to oil and gas executives [full disclosure requires me to say that I once was one] and coal barons [ditto, also] don’t apply to Lynn Jurich, the CEO of SUNRUN, “the nation’s largest dedicated provider of solar, storage and energy services” and the author of the screed.

Whenever an energy executive, particularly one who is in the employ of a huge fossil fuel company, is quoted there is always the subtle, read-between-the-lines, semi-detached monitum that the author drowns polar bears before they can eat baby seals, that he makes manatees into sushi, and that he promotes both teen-age bullying and obesity and, to make it worse, he is not at all moved by eleemosynary motives, and that he pursues filthy lucre, the spawn of Mammon, the bitch Goddess who suckles at the cold teat of profit.

Ms. Jurich wants to sell everybody in America at least 8 solar panels, each of which comes with a consumer-friendly maintenance contract. She even provides her NASDAQ symbol – RUN. If I remember the rules that run NASDAQ it was understood that intentionally non-profit entities need not apply.

Good luck to her and her company.

Don’t forget the Mark Twain rule of investing. Buy a stock and when it goes up sell it. If it doesn’t go up, don’t buy it.

Speaking if solar panels and clean energy and renewable resources and virtue signaling all the good intentions that drive people to not only reach but leap over the horizon…. was Boss Jurich or anyone at the company and its outside lawyers, accountants, consultants, and contractors ever and in any way, however tangentially, connected, associated, or involved with Solyndra? Could you ask her whatever happened to the unsold inventory of their really fine, for Chinese made, solar panels.

As to modern American Liberal “balderdash, poppycock, and tommyrot”, I suggest an in-depth perusal of the SUNRUN 10K might provide some succour.

I almost forgot. Have you turned off all the A/Cs at Sun Sentinel World HQ? Somebody has to set an example, to show us the way, lest we all perish, right?

Kevin Smith

WARRIROBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – You have a Page 1 story, complete with pictures, about the growing problem of sea weed. Let me add, and let us be thankful for small blessings, that it is both organic and bio-degradable. The follow-up story says that “no one knows the direct cause of the seaweed increase”. This is said after you list several reasons, all given in ex cathedra style, as to what caused this man-made pox. Regardless of the exact reason, and with the earth in the balance who needs metaphysical certitude, we know the real reason our terrestrial roulette pistol now has no empty chambers. When Trump left the Paris Peace Conference he doomed us. Maybe it was the Paris Climate Accord. Whatever