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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Burlington Vermont is kind of a cool story on going green. Don't think your Larger metropolitan area could get away with it. But it is still very interesting on how they did it.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...-energy-214463

That's a really nice, and encouraging, article. The one sentence which really stood out for me was: "Burlington is achieving its energy independence almost entirely through initiatives developed by its municipal government--" It didn't require the Federal Government to force it to do something it didn't want to do. And it has, in its own interests and in its own way, created a model for other communities of its size and similar type of location, to emulate, if they wish.

Letting the State and local communities decide for themselves creates various models which will show possibilities from which free people can choose. Fear of the people of this country should apply more to the tiny group of people in a central agency with total power to regulate this entire nation than to all the rest of the people in our thousands of communities or in the 50 different states--if those people are allowed to be free.

But if those millions of people are conditioned by force to depend on a distant central power rather than on their own personal and civic responsibility, we will have to submit to that unitary power's one size fits all dictates which will certainly not apply well to some places and people and will be entrenched in ways difficult to break free from. Dictatorships with their central planning, 5 year plans, etc. have historically failed. And the greatest failure lies in the destruction of choice, responsibility, motivation, and the feeling of the people's ownership of their communities and even of their own lives.

Freedom with its necessary personal responsibility is the key to good and just government.