Global Warming
Hurricane Matthew just tore up the coast of Florida. It was a rather devastating storm. It ripped up the beaches and destroyed our Dune system.
Without Dunes the high tides would erode our coastlines severely everyday. We need sand right now to repair them. Jacksonville city council just approved $7.5 million for the army core of engineers to go head and fix all of our beaches.
For Jacksonville that is a pretty long stretch of beach. From South to North its Ponte Vedra Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, and Neptune Beach. That's right we have four beaches in our county that are in dire need of repair.
I have to say i'm a little envious. I wish I owned a dump truck company right now. These guys are about to make a killing hauling dirt to the beach.
...Almost Eight million dollars worth. Good God that has to be some easy money. As the council deliberated on the issue I thought of the harmful global warming that goes on every day.
With the polar caps melting and the ocean rising we may need to replenish our Dunes every few years anyway. Where are we going to get all that dirt from? How much sand is available?
Can we use any kind of sand? Is there special beach sand we need? If we don't go green soon, we may very well mess up our coast lines for good.
Our coastal military bases noticed it first. They noticed they were loosing about 64 inches of coastline every year. You know how the military is. I mean they had to measure it and make sure it wasn't an attack or something like that.
Its just Mother Nature guys. You can put down your guns now. We need to go green on a Global level.
Now, of course everyone can't afford to go out and buy a new hybrid. but if we make it the law everyone will have to be able to afford it. ...Like children being forced to take a spoonful of nasty medicine. You make em do it anyway.
Its for our own good. Its for the good of our planet. I wanted to film a documentary about solar power a while ago.
I was fortunate enough to find free a course that paid a stipend. I studied Solar and now I have a few theories. Until the cost is brought down the solar companies should be run like a car lot.
OK... You don't have $20K to drop on a Solar array, fine. Just give the company $2K down and pay $300 a month for the next five years. Its the best format anyone can think of, yet no one has come out and begun to do it yet. That will do away with the harmful emissions from coal fired electrical plants that run America. Now lets go to city vehicles next. Make it the law that police cars, fire engines, city buses, etc... all have to be hybrid or electrical.
That means that not a another dime of tax payer money is spent of gas or diesel running vehicles. Charity begins at home. The only person that will argue with you is the cops.
Some of them don't believe that a good pursuit vehicle can run on electricity. Well, I beg to differ. As a matter of fact BMW just out bid Tesla for a police cruiser contract in L.A.
Not only that but Formula 1 racing has a new line of electric race engines that could be IDLED DOWN, for use as police cars. Hell, there are even new electric 18 Wheeler's on the market now. They get at least 1400 miles on a charge.
My point is that the tech is out there now. We don't have to keep living in fear of Global Warming. We need to change our ways before mother nature changes things for us.
Then we can save our tax dollars for something other that sand every time a storm hits.
