Energy progress
I am writing to express gratitude to Gov. David Ige for proclaiming Clean Energy Week in Hawaii. In his statement, he explained that “the clean energy sector is a growing part of the economy and has been a key driver of economic growth in our state in recent years.”
Hawaii has always enthusiastically embraced energy innovation. Its residents understand the importance of energy independence and sustainability, which partly explains why Hawaii residents use less energy per capita than all but three states.
Hawaii’s clean energy resources hold great potential for the future. Solar energy accounts for 38 percent of Hawaii’s net electricity generation from renewable resources, and the state is also notable for being one of seven states with utility-scale generation from geothermal energy.
I look forward to having Hawaii residents join us again next year in celebrating Clean Energy Week.
Heather Reams
Managing director,
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions
Hirono failed
Here’s the devil speech from “A Man for All Seasons.”
Sen. Mazie Hirono: So now you’d give the devil the benefit of law?
Thomas More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?
Hirono: I’d cut down every law in England to do that.
More: Oh, and when the last law was down, and the devil turned on you, where would you hide, Hirono, all the laws being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, man’s laws not God’s, and if you cut them down — and you’re just the woman to do it — do you really think that you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I’d give the devil the benefit of the law, for my own safety’s sake.
Hirono deserves no defense. She and others willfully besmirched a man’s reputation for political reasons. Having gone to law school, she of all people should have known about the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. She took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and she failed.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser had the strongest of allegations with the weakest of evidence. Nobody was able to back up her story. In fact, just the opposite. Yet, the media and Sen. Hirono had him convicted.
It’s ironic that Hirono’s mindset is the same mindset that sent the Japanese-Americans to the internment camps during World War II.
Shame on you, senator.
Roger Schweitzer
Volcano