Bent Corner

The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski
Suite 503
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-4654

Dear Senator Barbara Mikulski:

This concerns the recent email you sent me asking me to shut off my electrical power this past Saturday for one hour. I didn’t see the message until today when I decided to clean out my spam folder. You claimed in your email that by turning off my electricity for one whole hour, I would be fighting global warming.

I have to ask you Senator Mikulski - do you know how hot it is in central Maryland this time of year? Telling someone in Hagerstown to turn off their electricity on a humid 91-degree day is just down right silly. Especially when you realize the air-conditioning will only have to work just that much harder after it is turned back on. You actually conserve more power Senator Mikulski by setting the thermostat to one temperature and leaving it alone.

I couldn’t help but notice you were not in Maryland this past weekend. No, you were on a taxpayer-funded trip to Greenland. It was reported that your trip even included a boat tour of Disko Bay where you witnessed first hand the effects of climate change. You actually got to see ice breaking off glaciers and sliding into the water. That sounds like a nice weekend.

Did they serve snacks on the boat ride?

It’s a shame you couldn’t just do what I normally do when I want to learn about something. Instead of going to Greenland for the weekend to watch big chunks of ice fall into the water, I would just go to Wikipedia and read about it. After reading about climate change over at Wikipedia, I would have then gone over to YouTube and watched videos of the icebergs of Disko Bay. Using the Internet to learn about global warming may not be as exciting as jetting off to Greenland for the weekend, but you have to admit my learn-about-it-on-the-Internet method creates a much smaller carbon footprint then yours.

Using the Internet to learn about things is also much cheaper then your method. Granted, you and I both pay the same amount with our methods - absolutely nothing. Even though you personally didn’t pay for the weekend junket to Greenland, the taxpayers did.

The very same people you told to turn off their air-conditioning on a 91-degree day.

Please do us a favor Senator Mikulski and the next time you decide to take a costly fact-finding trip on the tax-payers dime, stop and ask yourself if you could learn just as much by getting on the Internet.

Democratically Yours,

Rick Rottman

Hagerstown, Maryland

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