Renewable Energy Is Homeland Security

While out and about driving this late afternoon, I pulled behind a car that had a bumper sticker that read "Renewable Energy Is Homeland Security," and couldn't help but laugh.

I am a former 45 year resident of Phoenix, Arizona, a state which receives most of its energy resources from Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station about 50 miles outside Phoenix.

I was living there when the idea of nuclear power was being brought to the state, and those at our local power company, Arizona Public Service, were in the forefront of getting an initiative passed in Arizona that called for a bond election to assist with its building, and a Corporation Commission then also expanded after it was built in order to supposedly act as a check on rate increases.

Although most in Arizona still believe that Arizona Public Service Company is a public utility company that is accountable to the Arizona Corporation Commission for its rate increases and also its regulation with respect to Palo Verde, such is not the case.

Why?

Well, after Palo Verde was finished being built, which also supplies some power to California - the state which has stolen Arizona's water for literally decades, and now boycotting it due to the citizenry and state government actually attempting to stop Phoenix and Tucson and those border towns from truly becoming another L.A. - the federal and state government afforded Arizona Public Service Company to be assumed by a holding company that also is engaged in commercial building construction by the name of Pinnacle West.

And shares of Pinnacle West are currently sold over the global stock exchange, in essence affording foreigners or foreign governments to now own shares in even America's nuclear reactors and generators progressively (don't you love that word, those progressives have sold out this country right and left to foreigners in the name of "progress").

So just how secure is Palo Verde (and America itself, for that matter) if it is entirely possible that foreigners, and not even Americans, own controlling interests in the largest nuclear generating station and reactor in the country?

Another American asleep at the wheel, and couldn't stop laughing at the naiveté that is still present in a good many Americans who are under 40.

Or possibly missed the 60's, 70's and 80's.