The Pickens’ Plan is counting on government to do it all by doing things to encourage more big businesses to invest in renewable energy and then pretty much guarantee that they profit and profit handsomely. The Pickens’ Plan is claiming to be encouraging free enterprise, but if the government must be the means by which [...]
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How does the Picken’s Plan stack up?
Posted in energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged energy policy, obama, pickens plan, renewable energy on February 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
How should congress structure the economic stimulous package?
Posted in energy policy, government, public policy, renewable energy on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Republicans suck and need to be voted out of office. We need to use some common sense in dealing with the stimulus plan, and we need to get moving on renewable energy and an entirely new electrical grid.
A Plan for Green Schools
Posted in education, energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many schools are starting to investigate ways to generate their own electricity and otherwise green up their image. Schools have received grants to install solar panels on their roofs and a few even erect small wind turbines away from their buildings. Part of the thinking is that if our children are expected to learn about [...]
When will congress take our economic survival seriously?
Posted in energy, energy policy, politics, public policy, renewable energy, tagged government spending, obama, retirement, stimulous plan on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today the senate decided that they had to mess with the stimulous package by playing politics instead of trying to do the right thing. They want to give everyone on social security $300. I’m sure everyone on social security is thrilled with the idea, yet we already know that todays recipients are receiving far more [...]
Will we be able to retire?
Posted in economy, energy, energy policy, government, investing, tagged economy, investing, pension plans, retirement, retirement savings on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m pretty well off relative to most people and now I’m starting to doubt my ability to retire, so I can’t even imagine how the people of lesser means will ever make it. We are being hit from all sides, and scratch the surface just a little, and you’ll find some greedy bastard at the [...]
Sensible Renewable Energy
Posted in energy policy, renewable energy, tagged bio-diesel, eco-house, environmental friendly, geothermal, passive solar, reneable energy, solar, solar house, wind on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been ranting and raving about the financial crisis and thought I’d return to renewable energy. Of recent I have run into a number of articles on various projects that promise to free us from our dependance on fossil fuels and all that.
One was a guy in Canada that built a super energy efficient [...]
California and Climate Change
Posted in energy, energy policy, government, renewable energy, tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, California climate change, global warming, renewable energy on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations California for doing the right thing at a time when the right thing in the form of new fees and regulations may not be popular.
Generate your own electricity
Posted in energy, energy policy, renewable energy, tagged electriciy, renewable energy, solar, wind on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a question. If you could spend $5,000 on a wind turbine to generate your own electricity for the next 30 years and the turbine would save you upwards of $30,000 in electric bills over that same period, would you do it? Let’s eliminate some of the objections by stipulating that you wouldn’t be able [...]
The auto industry can be saved.
Posted in economy, energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged auto, auto bailout, auto industry, Detroit, energy policy, financial bailout, fincancial crisis, government spending, legislation, Obama administration, renewable energy, US manufacturing on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just read yet another article stating that the American auto industry is a decade or more away from being able to profitably produce and market alternate energy vehicles. They have been saying this for 30 years. Now the Chinese government is saying that they intend to position China as the world leader in hybrid [...]
Obama economic plan should include…
Posted in economy, energy, energy policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged bailout, economic plan, financial crisis, financial stimulus, obama, obama economic plan, stimulus, stimulus plan on November 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Obama economic plan needs to be massive in scope and decisive and far reaching. First and foremost it must address real-estate, the root cause of this whole crisis. Real-estate covers a lot of territory all by itself since the credit markets collapsed because of the millions of bad loans resting atop a mountain of [...]
