Mary Alice Reporting –
During Friday’s annual Lincoln Day event, the keynote speaker mentioned the national debt, rural economy, and green energy.
JD Vance, Ohio’s Republican United States Senator, joined the crowd via video from Washington DD. He started on talks on the unsustainable national debt as it hover around the 34 trillion dollar mark.
Another topic was housing. During a Q & A session, Vance was asked about ever increasing regulations on farmers, as well as where the state is in terms of potential power grid failures.
“What we’ve done here is replace a lot of coal power with wind and solar. The problem is that solar doesn’t work if the sun isn’t shining and wind doesn’t work if the wind isn’t blowing. Here’s what we worry about, when we have a very cold winter and you have a lot of people tapping into the power grid that power grid becomes overwhelmed and we need to produce more power or it can take down the entire grid, and if you don’t have that base load power you’re going to stress the system, and that’s where we are. Folks don’t realize how precarious this is.”
The event also hosted a presentation by Jeff Sikkenge, the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center, who talked about how young people are not learning about the history of American or Ohio.
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