Mark Landsbaum: Your money's gone with the wind (and solar)

Renewable energy is all the rage. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last week to encourage more of it. The law "encouraged" in the way government encourages everything: Do it or else.

Rather than produce a mere 20 percent of California's energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by the year 2020, state utilities now are ordered to generate a third of it that way. President Barack Obama trumpets similar lofty-sounding goals for the nation, although he's not having as much success, considering Congress isn't as rabidly left-leaning green as California's Legislature.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, sitting, signs Senate Bill 2X, as officials including State Senator Joseph Simitian (D-Palo Alto) at center, behind Brown, look on at Flextronics in Milpitas, Calif., Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that would require California utilities to get a third of their power from renewable sources, giving the state the most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the U.S.

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When they use your tax money to underwrite their good intentions and to impose their will by force, isn't it a good thing? Aren't wind and solar energy low on pollutants and "renewable?" The sun always shines, and the wind always blows, don't they? Well, not always. More on that later.

At this critical juncture, as global warming alarmism loses momentum after being exposed as hot air, in the political, not atmospheric, sense, and the green-renewable energy movement it spawned picks up speed, we bring you a not-quite comprehensive, but rather revealing look at what it all means. Call it, renewable energy by the numbers.

15-26 – The range of percentage increase that California consumers will pay for electricity......

One more nail, This green energy ponzi scam has something for everybody if your a politician or a political family member or friend.

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Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

Beam me to Planet Gore !

There are grades of ignorance in science (just as in every subject).

Liberals have the distinction of being at the absolute bottom in science.

As they are in math.

As they are in medicine.

Beginning to see a trend here?

After it all collapses, what will crawl from the wreckage?

Some people eroneously believe CA will be rebuilt after the crash. Ain't gonna happen, because after it crashes, you still have all the same players to negotiate with to rebuild; public and private unions, permanent dem legislature, a plurality of left leaning voters, the nations largest contingent of welfare recipients and don't forget all the illegals.

That’s California and lots of expensive middlemen/women. Both sides of the arguments are weird from the elite on the coasts. I’ll pay my $60 per month for the battery account for lights and heating and $30 for the yearly wind prop replacement and bearing repacking. Men and women in real families build it themselves without political class subsidies.

They still Wonder why they are 20 Billion dollars in the hole.

Drill off the coast you idiots and the oil will get you out of debt.

Your renewable energy costs too much to afford even with nanny state discounts....fix it or put a sock in it and quit blowing stars and butterflies out your unicorn orifice.

At the same time that the lefties say make more of your energy “green” they also say make a whole lot more of it, because we’re going to open the borders wide and double the population.

They have no problem telling us we MUST use fluorescent bulbs at home and get used to high energy prices and castigating us for having more than one child, at the same time that they let this country act be used as a relief valve for countries with a higher birthrate or more population pressure.

And they cannot see the contradiction.

"They have no problem telling us we MUST use fluorescent bulbs at home and get used to high energy prices and castigating us for having more than one child, at the same time that they let this country act be used as a relief valve for countries with a higher birthrate or more population pressure.
And they cannot see the contradiction.

They don't care. Quit trying to explain. End of story.

"Some alarming numbers ....be sure and read the editorial."
As well as some of the comments. The one guy seems to think that every person will be willing to install thousands of dollars of solar panels on their homes....to make the "meter run backward"".

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.

Jerry Brown signed a law last week to encourage more of it. The law "encouraged" in the way government encourages everything: Do it or else. Rather than produce a mere 20 percent of California's energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by the year 2020, state utilities now are ordered to generate a third of it that way.

Hey, what could go wrong?

Any serious budget minded person who has looked into solar panels cannot justify the cost, even with gov assistance The biggest drawback...easy theft.

bump & a ping

I searched gone with the wind and saw it wasn't posted yet. I'm glad you could post it, Ernest. The window crashed on me three times. What I did read was appalling. Gov. Moonbeam is certifiably nuts.

I don't see how CA doesn't default on its debt. The good news is that all the contracts signed with CA public employee unions should be voided.

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