Well the people of the Island get screwed to the wall again! Instead of $550,000.00 for the Substation, the price magically inflates to $1.8 Million! Somebody, somewhere in this whole affair did not have their eyes on the ball. Hell they were not even in the same stadium where the game was afoot! How could so many people who were supposedly watching all aspects of this whole fiasco apparently be sound asleep?
What about the cost of the friggin' cable? How could ALL the WHEEL'S who negotiated the price for this thing have gotten it so wrong. Or did the manufacturer in "Wherever", put one over on our vaunted intellectual, business people? I believe all the folks involved with the whole project knew just what they were up to from day one. I find it very hard to believe that a multi million dollar endeavor like this, would've had so many incompetent people.
All that bull about how much our electric bills were going to go down and now we find that it will go up 2-3 cents a KWH! And I'll bet it will get nothing but more expensive before it ever gets paid off.
One other thing, what is happening with the large piles of "Non-contaminated" dirt piled up there by the Town Garage? Can we redistribute it to folks who want to put in a garden? M-M-M- diesel flavored tomatoes! Wonder just how much that is going to cost to get it hauled off island and to the Superfund reclamation site? Free I expect.
How about that Broadband Internet thingy? Do most of, or even a bare majority of the folks living here year round really want or NEED that? Doubtful from all the people I talk to about it. If you really need that high speed access to facilitate the running of your business, then by all means get it! How? I hear Hughes Net can can do that for you! But YOU have to pay the exorbitant fees, not use the rest of us to underwrite your money making endeavors of which WE receive no recompense! Pay for it yourself or marry a billionaire!
That $1.5 to 1.8 Million bucks should go toward building a seawall along the Neck road to preserve it for as long as possible. Roll all those rocks the State put there out on the beach, and the drive a lot of 60' steel bulkhead down in the sand about 52 feet, roll back all the rocks and add to them substantially. Pour a concrete cap along it's entirety about 10-12 feet wide and and viola! A Promenade for all those summer visitors to partake of the beauty of the Island.
Of course this should all happen before the ocean all freezes over and we wouldn't need
the bulkhead or the ferries anymore. A scenario just about as liable to happen as the one where we all should stock up on snorkels and fins to get to the floating Grocery store located somewhere around Beacon Hill.
In case you haven't been listening to Rational people instead of all the doomsayers and nuts like the estimable Mr. , There is an event in the making that will put us back in the 1700's as far as electricity usage is concerned. Google 'The Carrington Event, and see what turns up! That is if Ding Dong _Un from North Korea does get too us first!
TIFN
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