IS IT TRUE that we have been reading a bit on the total electrical power generation capacity of the United States with an eye toward figuring out just how much of an impact that the step down generators that Earthcare Energy will hopefully be making in Evansville can make?…that the Wall Street Journal reported today that the total net generation of electricity in the USA is roughly 4 Trillion kilowatts (4,000,000,000,000,000 Watts)?…that the report written by Concurrent Technologies for the Air Force Research Lab states that the total 100% capacity of all of the power available from step down generation at an 80% efficiency is 53.7 GW (53,700,000,000,000 Watts)?…that at a market penetration of 100% operating at 80% net efficiency (not going to happen) the total impact on the capacity of the grid is 1.3%?…that it would seem that some of the grandiose claims that have been made may not stand up to vetting of the market with realistic penetration probabilities either?

IS IT TRUE that changing the subject that the Indiana brown bats, the retired pigeon brigade, the rats, and the rat snakes that have been leading the Occupy McCurdy movement for years now had a handful of human visitors yesterday?…that the CCO boots on the ground guy observed 6 EPD cruisers in the McCurdy parking lot yesterday trying to root out some wayward humans who had gained access to the building?…that every day that the McCurdy sits there with nothing going on is a day that the final cost to refurbish it increase?…that we are also wondering what is going on with the Riverhouse next door that would not even auction for $375,000 last year but did have an interested party in November?…that the McCurdy is still on record as being owned by none other than City Centre Properties and that the taxes still are not paid?…that another tax installment is looming and will be due on May 10, 2012?

IS IT TRUE that for those of you who may have been watching or having a curiosity about the Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of Obamacare some of the play by play of the questioning by the justices is beginning to be published?…that in an article today called “A Constitutional Awakening” it was reported that the Obama administration lawyers are getting roughed up by the three justices thought to be on the fence and thus the real decision makers?…that Justice Antonin Kennedy asked “can you create commerce in order to regulate it”?…that the only argument by the Obama Administration this far is that health care is “unique” and therefore exempt from the constitution?…that Justice Samuel Alioto sort of mocked that argument in equating forcing Americans to buy health insurance to forcing them to buy a burial policy since we are all going to die anyway and that would be a way of distributing the cost of burial to everyone?…that it is looking like we will not have to vote out Obamacare because as asserted it will likely be struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

IS T TRUE that several of our readers have asked if we could get our hands on a group picture of the management core of Earthcare Energy?…that no one seems to have seen a picture with Mr. Ken Haney the founder and chairman standing with CEO Stephen Geldmacher and president Erwin Washington?…that we agree that it would be appropriate for the people of Evansville to start to get familiar with these gentlemen so we can wish them good fortune when we see them around town?…that as they said in “The Hunger Games”, “may the odds be forever in your favor”?

IS IT TRUE that every day is an opportunity to learn and yesterday was a red letter day for learning when it comes to the way the City of Evansville is governed?…that we at the CCO learned that despite calls for a prudent vetting process that would have only taken a couple of weeks that when Mayor Winnecke is willing to use one on one meetings and robocalls to “persuade” members of the City Council to vote the way that he wants them to that someone will blink and conform even after expressing reservations to do so?…that everyone knew that there were 4 votes in favor of granting the $4.8 Million unsecured loan to Earthcare going into the meeting and that these three Council members were using some logic other than the logic used by banks or investors to justify their positions?…that most everyone knew that there were four votes strongly opposed to voting yes last night but who may turn to yes votes if Councilman John Friend’s questions and a real world tested model was shown?…that the last vote, the vote of Councilman Conor O’Daniel was said to be on the side of reason and his questions last night were entirely reasonable?…that after meeting with the two Earthcare executives in the hall during the break Councilman O’Daniel returned to council chambers and cast a YES vote defying every word of logic that had come from his own mouth before the break?…that is how the 5 – 4 contentious vote to make an unsecured loan to an unproven company happened last night in Evansville, IN?

IS IT TRUE that the executives of Earthcare Energy had a day of learning as well?…that the most important lesson that Earthcare learned is that the Evansville City Council has enough members who will back down when given an ultimatum that ultimatums work?…that this lesson will come back to haunt the City Council the first time that Earthcare Energy has a shortfall of cash?…that we will predict that the ultimatum card will be played again at some point in the future and that the next time the 5 City Council members who either blinked or were seduced by the siren’s song of job promises will have an angry mob to deal with?…that the executives of Earthcare learned that a majority of the Evansville City Council will fall for the song and dance of “we are in process of getting billions of dollars of orders from New York but we won’t show or tell you anything about them”?…that while there were four members of the council that were not impressed by this routine that the other 5 were and these guys will remember that weakness and exploit it again if they ever have a need to do so?

IS IT TRUE that if the VETTING of this business had been done correctly by Debbie Dewey and the Winnecke Administration before making an announcement and smiling prematurely for the camera that last night could have been a united 9 – 0 vote?…that Ms. Dewey seemed embarrassed last night that she could not even testify to having seen the MOU’s (memorandums of understanding) and the 6 – 7 rejection letters from banks that Earthcare had applied for loans with?…that the well posed questions of Councilman Friend for the most part went unanswered?…that if this company has any problems at all it will be the 5 City Council members who voted with their emotions instead of their minds, Mayor Winnecke, and Ms. Dewey will answer for it?…that the CCO predicts that the weakness demonstrated last night will become a rallying issue for the opponents of consolidated government?…that we wonder if the people of the unincorporated parts of Vanderburgh County want anything to do with being a part of the same old song and dance that the City of Evansville has been doing for a half century now?

IS IT TRUE that we wonder when the newly hired Director of the Evansville DMD is going to return one of the many phone calls to a CCO staff member who wants to know when and where is the next Evansville Brownfield meeting is going to be held?…that the CCO also would like for the newly appointed Director of the DMD to provide us with a breakdown of locations of “FRONT DOOR PRIDE” homes that are scheduled to be built in 2012 in each of the City of Evansville’s political wards?…that it looks like starting today that the CCO shall be sending out many “Freedom of Information” requests to the newly elected City administration so we can provide our readers with the above information that they have requested?… that the names may have changed in Evansville politics but the political games are the same?