Baptist, Bootleggers and Biomass

J Brian Fiacco

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Baptist, Bootleggers and Biomass

J Brian Fiacco
Friday, June 12, 2009

When I moved to North Mississippi to buy land in the late 60s, I landed in a dry county where it was illegal to buy or have alcoholic beverages in your possession. Like most folks, I enjoyed an occasional adult beverage. And coming from an Italian family, this was a pretty foreign concept to me. I asked Why? and the answer came back because of the Baptists and the bootleggers!

It was a coalition of two diverse groups with very different reasons and objectives. The Baptists supported the blue laws for religious, moral and ethical reasons and the bootleggers supported the same laws for reasons of personal financial gain (although it was pretty widely known that some members of the latter group were widely outspoken members of the former group!). The differences in their motives were irrelevant with respect to their ability to create a strong coalition that maintained a common objective.

A similar coalition has evolved to oppose the development and use of renewable energy, specifically biomass. The group is composed of environmentalists, power companies and the pulp and paper industry. Strange bedfellows again.

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Web Site: http://thetimberlandblog.blogspot.com/

Category: Forestry>Policies and Politics

Region: Missisippi

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