Katfish, I certainly agree woth most of your opinions, and I am from south florida and have been watching the FPL issues very closely. It seems when you dig down, at the core of the "green" movement", the hidden or least talked about part of the agenda boils down to this: tax and make things that are "socially unacceptable", like driving gas guzzlers, and consuming a lot of energy, so expensive that consumption will drop. All the while using the tax proceeds to build ever bigger bureaucracies and pass ever tighter regulations. And guess what, no matter how much it drops, it will NEVER be enough, until we're all walking to work and using candles again at night. Actually, no, candles produce too many hydrocarbons!
Past philosophers and historians have written and warned about these problems and foreseen our future. It seems that people will put up with a lot of tyranny before they finally get fed up with it all. The problem with that is, since the yolk is so far around the neck by that time, it takes violence to get it off at that point.
