• Legalize pot • Albesia trees pose threat • Meet ‘green’ mandates • Stop whining and help Legalize pot Auwe! Another green harvest operation! It can’t have been more than eight weeks ago that your paper stated, “only 72 plants
• Legalize pot
• Albesia trees pose threat
• Meet ‘green’ mandates
• Stop whining and help
Legalize pot
Auwe! Another green harvest operation!
It can’t have been more than eight weeks ago that your paper stated, “only 72 plants taken by Green Harvest” and yet, here we go again, being buzzed by helicopters bothering the peace of the neighborhood, wasting tens of thousands of our dollars in search of the elusive herb.
I have smoked pot for 51 years and my life disproves the many lies put out by our government (i.e. pot can lead to sterility, apathy, laziness). I have seven kids and have led an active and healthy life, owning my own home and business, and still surfing. They lie and the list of lies is long.
Green Harvest is just one symptom of this madness. Booze and tobacco are much more dangerous in all ways. Stop the lies! Legalize pot! Most of us will be better off, and the huge amount of taxes collected by the government from legal pot sales will benefit everyone, even the people who are ignorant and/or frightened by this wonderful herb.
Pot has been in use by humankind for more than 5,000 years for both recreational and medicinal purposes.
Hawk Hamilton, Kilauea
Albesia trees pose threat
Albesia trees are dangerous and should be cut back from the highways.
It’s time to run the gauntlet from Kalihiwai Ridge to the bridge, dodging pot holes and hoping the trees don’t come crashing down on us. And if we survive we’ll spend a nice day at the beach and jump in the cold pond.
Seems like the greater the beauty and the danger the more we enjoy the pleasure. And just imagine all the fun we’ll have spending the money we’ll get from the state when a tree comes crashing down on us. Albesia trees are an accident waiting to happen, and they don’t belong alongside the highway. ‘Nuff said. Safety first! A place for everything and everything in its right place.
Kawika Moke, Kekaha
Meet ‘green’ mandates
First a disclosure: I am working with Western Renewable Energy to bring green alternative energy capabilities to Kaua‘i and Hawai‘i, so this letter comes from that perspective.
In reading Mr. Proudfoot’s Aug. 30 letter to the editor, I understand his concern about the challenges KIUC faces regarding selling its product at more than it costs and its management’s view that “an increase in revenue” may be needed.
It’s too bad that KIUC was not more cost conscious when it purchased Kaua‘i Electric in 2002. Along with the great majority of Kauaians I share the view that the purchase price of $220 million was forced down our throats and was too high for the archaic facilities acquired and we are now reaping the consequences.
Mr. Proudfoot points approvingly to KIUC efforts. I do, though, question his statement that the “production plants that KIUC now owns are much more efficient than the production plants that existed in 1996.” Any improvement in efficiency comes essentially from an additional purchase of about $30 million for a new facility built in the Lihu‘e area which increased the mortgage KIUC has to pay.
I have learned a great deal about the generation of electricity from my efforts to bring stability to Kaua‘i’s energy needs. I appreciate that KIUC’s leadership faces major problems. It is for this reason that I truly hope that KIUC will acknowledge and accept the positive effects that WRE’s green energy pellet fuel program can bring to our community.
WRE met with KIUC on Aug. 4 and is now waiting to receive the customary Non Disclosure Agreements so that specific and constructive discussions of details of its proposal can be agreed upon in order to meet the conditions requested by KIUC. Once these matters are accomplished a definitive agreement should be promptly reached.
When a Power Purchase Agreement is signed between KIUC and WRE and can be implemented, then stability of monthly electrical billings will definitely begin lowering the dreaded monthly “fuel adjustment” portion of electric bills that skyrockets everyone’s energy cost.
At that moment in time Kaua‘i will truly be on a positive, concrete path to lessening our island’s dependence upon imported fossil fuel and will be in compliance with state energy policies. Let’s make Kaua‘i the first island in our state to meet “green” state mandates.
John Hoff, Lawa‘i
Stop whining and help
I don’t mind valid criticisms because I criticize myself, many times. However this letter written about KIUC providing free things during the recent Farm Fair is unjustified. (“KIUC’s smoke and mirrors,” Letters, Aug. 31)
I say this because I wonder how much Mr. Nesti is doing himself to reduce his cost of electrical consumption at his place of residence?
His advice to elect “professionals” on the KIUC board is ridiculous. I wonder if he ran for the board and lost an election and now this his way of “campaigning” for the next election.
His claim that the board has done nothing to initiate alternate energy is pure bunk. Perhaps he want to make proposals to the KIUC board for consideration instead of useless whining and criticizing a difficult task — being on the KIUC board.
Cayetano Sonny Gerardo, Lihu‘e
