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Seth Grossman: It could be very well be that the ocean wind turbines are dead. It’s not just because of those petitions signed by 2,092 Atlantic City voters. Let’s face it, that these petitions don’t force a referendum on whether the wind turbines go out in the ocean. They only force a referendum on whether the high voltage cables from those wind turbines go under the California Avenue Beach of Atlantic City, go under the streets of the residential neighborhoods, and whether Atlantic City has to give up control of its best parks, playgrounds and ball fields to compensate for the industrialization of that stretch of beach. So it’s really a a local issue.Â
Also Governor Murphy and most Democrats made it clear in the past that if they don’t like what local towns do in resisting wind turbines, they’re just going to have the state take over like they did last year with Ocean City. But that takes time and that takes process and that takes court cases. And I think everybody knows that, President Trump is not going to allow these wind turbines. And Trump has a great relationship with Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew. So, so if I were a betting man, I would not be betting on wind turbines off the coast of Atlantic City. But this is only the beginning. Stopping the wind turbines is not enough.Â
We need more electric power for our artificial intelligence, for the electric cars, for all the things we need in modern society. And we can’t depend on making electricity just when the wind happens to be blowing. I mean, we tried that technology with sailboats a 150 years ago, and we got rid of it. Because it’s not h0w well wind energy works when the wind is blowing. It’s what do you do when the wind’s not blowing? How do you set up a completely duplicate generating system to cover those times? And it’s just not economically feasible.Â
And just before you put me on the air, you repeated the biggest lie that the Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) has on its website. Something like one wind turbine “can power up to 2,500 homes with electricity”. They have that posted on their website. Notice that it says “can” power. It doesn’t say it “will” power that many homes. We don’t know if it can power a single home! The ACUA is saying a wind turbine can power 2,500 homes — but only if the wind is blowing 26 miles an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a week. But that never ever happens. And if a private person tries to sell a product with that kind of dishonesty, they get locked up for consumer fraud.Â
But anyway, what’s the next step? The next step is where will we get more energy? If you look at the, electricity picture for New Jersey right now, you see that 42% of all the electricity that we make in New Jersey comes from 2 nuclear generators in Salem. And then you have another 40% comes from gas and oil, like how me used to produce electricity as Beesley’s point. So after years of investing billions of dollars on wind and solar energy, the best we can do is have wind and solar make 8% of our electricity.
And I actually think those figures are hokey. That’s because it assumes that we actually use all the electricity used by those wind turbines every time those blades are turning. However, there are many, many times when the wind is blowing when we don’t need the power. When that happens, they just dump that electricity and waste it. There are no batteries big enough to store it. So just a small fraction of the electricity we get, less than 8%, comes from wind and solar.
And that less than 8%, is why our electric bills are almost double what they pay in Florida. Florida pays about 14¢ a kilowatt hour. We in New Jersey pay about 24¢ a kilowatt hour. What’s the difference? Florida does not mandate its companies to use this fake green energy.Â
That’s why we have to figure out how to build another nuclear plant in Salem. We just need one more nuclear generator to power the whole state. Basically, we just need to replace what we used to have at Oyster Creek in Lacey Township. That one nuclear plant would give us more reliable electricity than a hundred wind turbines in the ocean.
And we need to also rebuild that Beasley’s Point plant and the cooling tower we demolished two years ago. That would send a powerful message that we are serious about having enough energy.  So for all those construction worker unions that say we want more jobs, instead of demanding jobs and stuff that doesn’t work, why not demand jobs to rebuild that power plant in Beasley’s point! The only thing we needed to keep the old plant going was an 18 mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Millville to Marmora. And that would have been the first-class technology, no pollution.Â
By the way, it’s amazing how the Atlantic County Utilities Authority when they they’re talking about using natural gas in their trucks. They say, oh, natural gas is clean. This is cheap. This is abundant. This is wonderful. The same ACUA that says how wonderful natural gas is for their trucks says how terrible it is to use it to make electricity. So it’s just, you know, total hypocrisy. . .Â
Meanwhile, speaking about the weather.  I don’t know if you saw the Press of Atlantic City for those who still get that newspaper mailed to us 4 days a week. The headline last Tuesday was, “Polar vortex grips much of US”. Now remember us boomers know when we had a cold snap like that, the headlines would say something like “cold front” or or “Blizzard conditions, over most of US”. But you see, they have this narrative that the world is getting warmer and warmer. So if if you have cold weather in the wintertime, they can’t say the weather is cold. They have to say, well, the weather is really warm, but we just have this little vortex came down and makes it seem cold. But again, when we have very hot weather, they never say, oh, it’s hot because there’s a tropical vortex.
Now a story of two doctor visits that explain why healthcare today is so expensive and unaffordable. And I think I mentioned before that the problem with Americans today is we assume that if we go on vacation and we get an airline ticket, we pay for it. If we, if we want to get groceries, we pay for our groceries. But we don’t think we should pay anything for health care. We think insurance is going to magically pay for it.Â
However, by definition, if you pay for insurance and you expect to get paid from your insurance for for the risk, and it’s normal, it’s not really insurance. I mean, just picture if you had car insurance that covered the oil changes and new tires. Think of how expensive that would be.Â
The whole idea of insurance is you insure against some catastrophe that you hope will never happen. When you buy insurance, you’re really hoping or when you buy fire insurance, you’re not expecting a new house. You’re not expecting your house to burn down. It’s just in a rare, rare, catastrophe, then you need the insurance. You don’t use insurance for day to day expenses. Because when you do have insurance, everything costs more and you just fool yourself into thinking you’re not paying for it. Let me give you two examples.Â
Last month I had a routine visit with my cardiologist, made the appointment months in advance, showed up on time, a technician takes my temperature, blood pressure, cardiogram, that takes 10 minutes. Doctor looks at the results, talks to me for 5 minutes, total of 15 minutes. I get the bill, $708. I pay $10. My insurance pays $698. So somebody’s paying for that $698. I don’t squawk about it because I’m not paying for it, but I do squawk about the fact that, you know, it cost a fortune each month to pay for insurance, mostly for routine things. You know, not to mention for paying for illegal immigrant health care and all that stuff.Â
Meanwhile, a friend of mine fell on the ice the other day, couldn’t walk, terrible pain. He had an HMO insurance that couldn’t see him for another 2 weeks. So he calls up a nearby orthopedist and agrees to self-pay out of his pocket. Gets an appointment the next morning. They take an x-ray. The doctor identifies the fracture. He gets a brace. A nurse takes time to teach him how to use the brace. A doctor charged a $150. The x-ray $50. The brace a $150. So for $350 you’ve got that complete instant personal health care for a fraction of the cost of what it would have been if you had to have insurance. Plus the inconvenience of living in pain for 2 weeks till they finally get you an appointment somewhere.Â
That should be a teachable moment of how we are really on this dead end-street with this the way we’re paying for our health care. We were so much better off in the 1950s when we had the, you know, Blue Cross Blue Shield major medical. In other words, you saw your doctor, you paid out of your pocket. The doctors will only charge 5, 10, $20. We need to get back to that way of paying for health care. But it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to say the obvious.
I would also loke to take about John Carmen. He died last week and his funeral was last Thursday. Died at age 66. He was one of the probably best people I’ve met in politics. He was on Township Committee in Egg Harbor Township, and he was a freeholder, which is now called commissioner in Atlantic County for many years. But as good as he was, he was basically lynched by the media and his career in politics was ruined for two things.
Back in 2017, when you had pussy marches and the protests Yeah. Protests against Trump at the inauguration. It was total hypocrisy. So John Carman shared a Facebook post on his personal Facebook page of about how many of those women complaining about men who’d probably be making dinner for their husbands at the end of the March. Because of that, he made national headlines. And, they they painted him as a woman hater, a misogynist, you know, and and just completely ruined his his character. And then 6 months later, it turned out, they found out that years ago he wore a, a patch, called Free South Jersey patch that had, showed South Jersey with the confederate flag. And again, so now the the media, said, oh, he’s a racist. He’s horrible. He’s this or that. So he lost the election, and it broke his heart because you could not have a better elected official, who made sure every dollar the county spent was for a good purpose. He went out of his way to help people. All that ruined because of the superficial things. And let me tell you about that Confederate flag. See, when the democrats wanted to elect Jimmy Carter, when the democrats wanted to elect Bill Clinton, they used the, the confederate flag all the time to show it was the rebel. It was a whole different image. Nothing racist at all. We’re talking about the 19 seventies. You had a show called the Dukes of Hazard with their cool car, the General Lee with the Confederate flag on the top. And even more, now that you have that Bob Dylan movie, Joan Baez, the most leftist of all the leftist folk singers with Pete Seeger, 1971. What’s what’s your big hit? The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Yeah. So when they when the Democrats wanted to elect Democrats and wanted to use, you know, get southern votes, they had no problem using the Confederate flag for their political purposes. But when they have a chance to destroy Republican for something that happened, 50 years ago, look how they did that. And and again, it it’s it’s a shame what they did to John Carmen, and he just did not deserve that. Yeah. I, I remember that. It was pretty bad. Yeah. And I guess the final point in the Galloway Township, public schools, the New Jersey State Department of Education last year adopted something called policy 5,756 which does two things as with regard to counseling, children who say they’re having gender issues or sexual issues. And it encourages teachers, not just encourages teachers, tells teachers not to tell parents if their kids are having any sexual problems or gender problems or any psychological problems. And so what these teachers are doing under this policy, they’re encouraging kids to lie to their parents. Teachers are lying to their parents, they’re destroying the whole family, and they make this fatal, mistake. They assume that, government employees know or, you know, understand your children better than you do. And as a parent, as a grandparent, I know that nobody loves a a child, nobody understands a child, nobody has the best instance of the child at heart more than parents or grandparents. And for them to set up this system that turns children against parents, tells the children you can’t trust the parents, we’re not gonna tell the parents what’s going on, everything is lying, everything is dishonest. And on top of everything else, this policy says that if it’s a biological man identifies as a woman, that biological man could be in a woman’s bathroom, the woman’s locker rooms, causes all sorts of problem. It’s just just an evil policy pushed through by, one particularly special interest group group. And the Vineland Public Schools got rid of it. Ethel Hermanow, on Thursday night brought that to the attention of the, the Galloway Township Board of Education. I don’t know how that turned out. But, this is going on in every single school district. And if you’re a parent or grandparent, you ought to ask about what’s going on in your school district. And it’s, again, it’s called policy 5756, and we post all the details on our libertyandprosperity.com website. And you encourage people to run for school board? What what we do and we we we don’t. We’re having a a, a thing about that. We encourage people to run for school board, but really, you’re you’re when you run for school board, you’re expecting to find volunteers who are trying to make a living, trying to raise families, to run for a position that’s not paid, and they’re supposed to take on the high paid teachers union, which which collects $1,000 a year from every single, school teacher. So we’re start we’re we’re actually that’s one of our debates that we’re having right now. As much as we encourage, people to run for the school board and make things better, the deck is so stacked against you. We are really having a discussion as to whether we’d be better off. Having the local government officials who are being paid run the schools and then give parents the option to say if if this the government’s paying $18,000 a year to educate your kid in the public school, why not take half that money, and apply that to the private school and let parents control the education? I don’t know what the solution is, but whatever we’re doing now, it it’s not only bad, it it’s actually evil. Anyway, that’s what we talk about at libertyandprosperity.com every Saturday morning, 9:30 to 10:30 at Chow’s in Somers Point, and, of course, everything we talk about gets posted on our liberty and prosperity.com website. Alright. Time time to get there. Okay. Bless you later. Thank you, Seth. Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity. The website libertyandprosperity.com. The meeting starting right now at South’s Coal Fired Pizza on Groveland Avenue in Somers Point. I’m John DiMasi. It’s Talk With A Purpose every Saturday, 9 till noon, WPG Talk Radio 95.5.
