Do you seriously mean to tell me that our Republican legislature couldn’t be bothered to require that Missouri plan to get 15% of its electricity from renewable sources of energy? Maybe I could understand it if they were looking at accomplishing that in just a year or two, but no. They’re not interested in it in the next eternity. They did nothing. Nada. They’re so blind that private citizens had to gather signatures for a ballot initiative requiring AmerenUE, Aquila, KCP&L, and Empire to acquire a measley 15% of their power from renewable sources by 2021. 2021? That’s thirteen years to come up with a piddling 15 percent!

I mean, can you imagine anyone voting against that? But some of the nutballs, you know I ain’t lyin’, will organize to prevent this “travesty” from becoming law. They figure that if we’re going to create jobs building a new energy infrastructure, let’s put those jobs in the nuclear plant industry. (Heh, we’ll figure out what to do with the waste when we come to that bridge. Meanwhile, let’s bury it on a flood plain, right above the intake pipes for a major American city.) Why would we want to create jobs building windmills, which have no attendant problems?

Here’s my question: Why are some people so perversely stupid?

Anyway, I know you’ll vote for the Clean Energy Initiative this fall. In the meantime, though, maybe you’d like to add your name to the list of its supporters. It won’t take you a minute.