However, the crony capitalist is always at the ready to cash in.
All the article says is true.....we are converting our home to solar right now, however - but it’s got nothing to do with thinking the nation needs a major solar program. It’s that we would like to be “off the grid” and not subject to hurricane and wind power outages (we live on the coast) - and it will enhance the value of our home significantly as well.
That’s the “conservative” reason to personally go solar. But as for a national policy? Nothing but cronyism and a waste.
Michael Bastasch
06/25/2013
President Obama laid out his new plan to tackle global warming Tuesday. In 2008, he made comments about “bankrupting” coal plant owners and making energy prices “skyrocket.”
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board.
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,” he added. “Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.” ...”
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From Politico, April, 2012
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
Of course, cap and trade is long dead. But coal-fired power plants are powering down nationwide, and they are blaming the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. The president’s critics say proposed greenhouse gas regulations for future power plants are designed to cripple the coal industry.
And just like with another 2008 quote — Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s famed call to “figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — Republicans say the Chronicle clip shows what’s really in the president’s heart, that high electricity prices and the death of coal have always been Obama’s goal.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74892.html#ixzz3jAzdi18H
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They are busy shoving solar down our throats in Maryland. It’s sad to see homes with solar cells on the roof. On a 1-10 scale for solar efficiency, Maryland is only a 5. That’s not worth even considering.
Plus, how many of these people are going up on their pitched roofs every couple weeks to wash the glass?
What’s always overlooked is ...
Fossil fuels ARE solar energy. It’s been stored in the earth for many hundreds of moons. God is all his wisdom created the science and logics. He started preparing for mankind thousands of years ago.
Solar and wind are good for backups and to cut costs when conditions allow them to function well. But as the article states, they are not dependable.
Bonus! The US becomes bird and bat free! Yippee.
In most parts of the country the solar resources are insufficient, and if it were private money being spent, that research would be the greatest factor. Now it’s the gummint incentive.
Sorry, but my inner grammar Nazi is simply confused.
“Au the contraire?” WTF?
“Au,” oddly is a contraction of “a” (on) and “le” (the).
I like that.