Do you know what your alternate fuel source is costing at the moment and where it is coming from? Do you know who is skimming the funds that have been alloted thus far? These are the issues you should be looking into.

Dirk Kempthorne is not the first secretary of state from Idaho. Nor will he be the last I am sure. The fact is Idaho has a vast amount of BLM land, just as Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado lands that are owned by the public. The Department of Interior manages these publicly owned land and that is the major reason the choices for this department came from Idaho. Besides I think the choices for the Secretary of Interiors have been fine choices for the last 20 years have been good choices. Dirk Kempthorne from my recollections is a fine person and a good choice also for the Department of Interior.

Trying to accuse party lines on this issue is wrong and truthfully does not help anyone in the long run.

I have to agree with dmk altering contracts after the facts causes problems and is wrong.

Links change all the time on sites with new management in these agencies. Write them and ask why it is no lobger there.

The additives to the fuels are a major pollution factor and these cause cancer.

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The more informed people become about the damages from chemicals. The better all will be. In the meantime there are a lot of good people looking for solutions that will benefit everyone.

There are a lot of things that can be done to improve energy sources. For now use what we already own and get on with developing the things we waste each day. Use a system to clean up pollution and provide energy. Start putting in systems that use waste we create to utilize it for energy. You have to spend this the money twice now. Once for treatments and landfills and then later it has to be cleaned up due to the pollution in the ground and the water ways. There is no reason not to start cleaning house now and using what is already there. There are example facilities already working in the nation that use waste to create energy. Improve and expand these to each city.