Re: July 31 Dick Hilker column.
I cannot for the life of me understand why The Denver Post would publish Dick Hilker’s column in which he pleads with Xcel Energy to ignore the city of Boulder’s efforts to negotiate a new energy provider agreement, which would move more rapidly toward 100 percent renewable energy for the city.
Hilker is not an economist or an engineer, and apparently has not studied the issues around fossil fuels, climate change and renewable energy. He seems to have no awareness of the advances that have been made in generation and storage of renewable energy in the last two decades. But then, he doesn’t need to, since in his own words he “doesn’t care about anything” other than having a supply of reliable, cheap energy available to him at the flip of a switch. Environment be damned, just give me my electricity.
Certainly the editors of The Post are knowledgable enough to recognize “malarkey,” to use Vice President Joe Biden’s descriptor. Hilker’s opinion, silly as it is, does have a right to be heard, but I hardly think it deserves the platform of a Denver Post opinion column.
Nelson Bock, Denver
Submit a letter to the editor via or check out our for how to submit by e-mail or mail.
