Avoid making sweeping assertions

Geordie, in your letter (Irrelevant to my point, SN 30/4/12)) you state:

“I don’t have to make an argument based on a “premiss” (sic), false or otherwise. I only have to point out the facts as they stand.”

Alas, you have not pointed out “the facts as they stand.”

I quote from your letter (What’s the alternative, SN 30/4/12):

“So, how exactly does Sustainable Shetland propose that a reliable closed electricity grid be provided in Shetland when the oil and gas have gone – or don’t they care about the long term future for succeeding generations?”

Correct me if I am wrong, I draw from this that you are offering as one of your “facts” that oil and gas supplies will run out in the near future?

You deeming that to be so – by your fiat – does not make it a “fact”; it is demonstrably false and I have previously provided evidence (Geordie, you didn’t read my letter, SN 30/4/12) in support of my point which you have chosen, imperiously, to dismiss.

Your question is thus hypothetical and a red herring.

If you are too “techno-phobic” to research technical issues before writing you would be well-advised to avoid making sweeping assertions which are so readily disproven.

John Tulloch
Lyndon
Arrochar
tullochj22@btinternet.com