Posted on 12/21/2011 8:28:07 AM PST by SmithL
As Gov. Jerry Brown participated in a Capitol menorah-lighting ceremony this week to mark the onset of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, he uttered a secular prayer for a miracle that would make California a model of carbon-free energy.
Today's miracle, he said, "is not to find more oil, but to utilize the sun," adding, "when we continue to use our intelligence, we're going to take that sun through the miracle of modern science and technology, and we're going to light up California, our cars, our homes, our air conditioners."
It was one of several recent events at which Brown disparaged global-warming agnostics and touted renewable energy and a new law that requires utilities to obtain a third of their power from such sources by 2020. Utilities are expected to contribute more than a third to the reduction in California's carbon emissions.
Both Brown and predecessor Arnold Schwarzenegger contend that taking the global lead in reducing greenhouse gases will pay economic dividends – someday – as the state becomes a leader in developing solar panels and other equipment to reach its goals.
But will it?
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Where is the “Pink Unicorns That Crap Skittles” alert?
Hey Jerry baby...google “Maunder minimum 2012” and enjoy
There were some huge solar projects in CA, like the big mirror field in Daggett. Where are they now?
None were ‘economically viable”.
Using tax subsidies to buy acres of solar panels from China, then leveraging subsidies and rebates to lock in rates over a decade is not economical, nor good sense, nor sustainable.
The liberal voters of Taxifornia asked for it — and they got it. Morons.
This nation is quite simply dumbing itself to death...
Jerry Brown is a good example of what happens to the human brain after hundreds of LSD trips.
Hire a medicine man, Jerry...
Cost of reaching for the sun will soar
Unless we go at night...
It takes awhile, but Darwinian selection will win out in the end and the predators are going to winnow the prey.
Your post is nominated first place in best prophecy of the day. It also made me smile.
Somebody tell Moonbeam that the Sun is Nuclear.
Ouch! They would explode.
I’d like to think that hard working producers are the predators in your scenario, but my instincts tell me that that the vagabonds, moachers and big government types are the real predators.
AND.... that it is the SUN that makes the OIL.
Moacher should have read moocher. Stupid spell check.
There are no pink unicorns and we crap Reeses Pieces, not Skittles.
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