Write Bingaman About Wind Energy, Get a Response About the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Jeff Bingaman (left)

It would appear that Senator Jeff Bingaman might have waited a bit long to retire after actually announcing his retirement. Earlier this week we were copied on a letter sent to Bingaman regarding wind energy. The Bingaman staff must be too busy sending out resumes to read communications from consitutents or make sure the right canned response goes to the right constituent. Here is the letter to Bingaman:
Please do not support a renewal of the Production Tax Credit for Wind Energy should it come up in the next days.
I am a meteorologist with a keen interest in the environment, but the promises of wind energy made for many years have not been kept. I have been a student of the promise of renewtable energy for 40 years. Wind energy is expensive, intermittent, unreliable, and a killer of bats and birds which help keep insects under control. It is noisy and does not contribute to energy security, and in fact it makes the power much more expensive than energy from nuclear, gas and coal.

If wind energy was going to be a positive influence into our power grid, it would have done so in the >30 years it has been subsidized. Please help pull the plug on this waste of my taxpayer money.

And here is Senator Jeff Bingaman's response:

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I appreciate your taking the time to write.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2006 and signed by the United Sates in 2009. The convention seeks to elaborate in detail the rights of persons with disabilities and set out a code of implementation. It sets broad goals of autonomy, equality, and accessibility. On July 26, 2012, the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations voted to report the convention to the full. Please be assured I understand your concerns about the convention, and will keep your comments in mind should this treaty come before the full Senate for ratification. Again, thank you for writing. I hope you will continue to keep me informed of issues of importance to you and your community.
Actually the net effect of this sort of treatment of citizens is not much different than being completely ignored. Many have written to Senator Bingaman before and pretty much everyone always gets a canned response. As his career winds down Senator Bingaman and staff are simply sending the wrong canned responses to the wrong voters.

Write Bingaman About Wind Energy, Get a Response About the Rights of Persons with Disabilities