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Ban The Auto?
If the automobile had to be introduced into society today, we would all still be walking or riding horses. There is no way that such a killer (500,000 deaths in 10 years) would be allowed in this country.
No responsible person can argue with the necessity of protecting the life support capability of our air, water, and land, and for reclaiming that capability where it has been lost by past abuses.
The incremental cost of environmental enhancement beyond that point should provide a tangible and measurable commensurate economic benefit.
But, when a group of people enjoin construction of a virtually completed $116 million multiple purpose dam (Tellico) which is estimated to generate 6,000 jobs, on the ground that its operation will endanger an obscure, useless and heretofore unknown subspecies of fish (the snail darter), then it seems reasonable to conclude that the real purpose of such action is other than protecting the environment's life support capability.
Enhance Life Quality
The national goal anticipated by the Environmental Policy Act, is the enhancement of the quality of life.
Does this really mean, as calculated by Dr. Frank Parker of Vanderbilt University, that we must install cooling towers on a power plant at a cost of $83,500 per fish saved while sport fishermen continue improving devices to kill these fish for pleasure and amusement?
The power of the sun is indeed awesome and inexhaustible. However, we do not have in place the large scale utilization technology necessary for solar energy to constitute any f substantial portion of the US energy supply, especially electricity, before well into the 21st Century.
Dr. Alvin Weinberg (Institute for Energy Analysis at Oak Ridge Associated Universities) estimates that even with solar electric cells available at only seven percent of their present cost, firm solar electric energy, including storage, would exceed 10 cents per kilowatt hour. That is more than
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