Letter: Good things, bad things with alternative energy

I see that Mr. Wildermuth agrees with me that production of ethanol from corn is a wasteful use of our farmlands. Good thing. It requires more energy to produce than energy realized. Bad thing.

As land is defaced by panels or wind towers, it is no longer agricultural but industrial and not lassified as a farm. Most land used is leased by absentee owners, not unlike slum landlords of cities who reside in faraway locales, exempt from the negative effects of their degradation. Bad thing.

Your president wants 15% instead of 10% ethanol added to gasoline. Bad thing. Ethanol destroys rubber tubing and gaskets in lawn, farming and forestry engines.

Slavery is used in the manufacturing of solar panels in China, and that is the country where 80% of panels are produced by interred Uyghurs. Slavery is slavery, regardless of ethnic origin, and that is a very bad thing.

You tear down statues of suspected slave holders yet erect millions of monuments in fertile farm fields, the result of slavery, interment and death. Shameful.

Look for the union label, Mr. Wildermuth. You cite monetary benefits to schools but fail to realize the taxpayer is actually paying through subsidies. You toss the word freedom around with abandon, but have you never visited Arlington nor the 155 other national cemeteries where beneath hallowed ground lie the bones of heroes? Freedom is by no means free.

You talk of our beloved children but show no remorse for the killing of innocent unborn and born through abortion. Twenty pieces of silver shall never hit the ground, for they remain in the pockets of the greedy. That is a bad thing.

Leslie J. Kubinski

Wapakoneta