More Public Radio Ranting

16. April 2010 by Danny Dirt.

On the way home from work, I was cruising through the available radio stations and I once again stopped on Wisconsin Public Radio.  The show was “At Issues” with Ben Merens.  I think the format of the show is kind of a weekly-news-in-review.  People just call in and voice their opinion on the news of the week.  I guess the only difference between that and what I do here on DannyDirt.com is that I pay for this web space where as no private party pays for public radio.  It is tax payer funded along with any additional donations they can solicit.

So this guy calls in and complains that those mean old Republicans are joining forces again to oppose the new “energy jobs bill”, aka “Cap and Trade”, aka “Tax and Hide What You spend”.  Then he says, “I don’t know why more people don’t have electric windmills.  For only $2,000 dollars a family can get their own wind mill, get off of the grid and be energy independent.”

First of all, this is totally not true and secondly, our hero of the show - Ben Merens says nothing.  He asks no follow up questions about this.

Electric windmills that are large enough to provide enough power to run a house - an energy efficient house with energy efficient appliances, and people who live in them that are very energy conscious can easily run $20,000.   If you don’t think so, check out AWEA.

This doesn’t even take into account whether or not the area that you live in will provide enough wind to make it feasible.  Nor does it take into account the growing number of people who don’t like the noise or think the flashing of the sunlight on the propeller blades causes epilepsy or seizures (which I might add that I don’t think there is a lick of truth to).  But that is besides the point.

Here is my point: for a radio network that likes to refer to itself as “the ideas network”, they’re not real big into challenging anyone’s ideas - unless your a conservative, republican, or Christian.

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