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Mainly so they can be good "global citizens". Big gov will soon be the provider of energy in the amount you "need". Just more ammo for the fight despite lsm working against us at every corner. Thanks al. Asshat!

Decades aago the politicians began taking the kooks seriously and disregarding time-proven wisdom.

It has taken a hundred years to mess things up;probably take as long to put them right.

I have been interviewing with a company that builds Autogas (LPG, propane) vehicles and question why there isn’t more of a market for this. Half the pollutants, half the cost, not pie-in-the-sky wind/solar/electric stuff or unable to propel large vehicles. Some parts of the world have this as the dominant automobile fuel.

I suspect the main reason you don’t see much of it in the States (besides the politics of the automobile industry) is that there just aren’t many refueling stations in the U.S. You’d have to know where to go look for them but I’d much rather pay $1.62/gal for fuel than $3.60/gal.

Our local utility based in Minnesota was mandated by the Minnesota Legislature to move up to 20% of its generating capacity to wind. Now the landscape in southern and south western Minnesota is blighted by forests of windmills stretching in places from horizon to horizon. Many times I have driven by these windmills and seen not one of them turning. Obviously there have to be back up generators using fossil fuels to pick up the slack when the wind isn't blowing.

The building of these windmills has also been strangely removed from the usual environmental scrutiny that would keep projects of this size tied up for years least some endangered beast or fauna be disturbed. Windmills are well known to be bird blenders killing all manner of birds including endangered species like eagles and there are studies to suggest that the low frequency vibrations from these windmills is a hazard to human health. Any other construction that would be shown to cause such environmental damage would never be built.