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By Expert Textpert on June 1, 2010 3:10 PM
I want to get 300 and then get out of here.
Not a chance in hell. I don’t know anybody who pays more than $150-200.
Conservatives were so named because they wanted to save & preserve land & resources – because usually they owned them. Now they just want to cash in on reserves.
The most draconian energy policy was under Jimmy Carter – & consumption really did dip significantly. We have to take those kinds of steps again.
300.
This one should do it.
300 now?
I want to get 300 and then get out of here.
I am agreeing with Denton here. Public policy in every sense has to be shaped toward reducing consumption of transportation fuels. Personal reduction of consumption of oil is wonderful, but it has to be public policy in every way possible. The CAFE standards improvement passed in the last energy bill was a milestone and it needs to be stepped up. But it isn’t easy to change a transportation fleet; it takes time and what Denton says about the electric grid is 100% true. We have a 3rd world grid for which there are no adequate incentives to enhance. It can’t support electric cars. We love to talk about generation of power and all sorts of new alternative energies are being developed (although Benson is right here too – still very difficult to make commercially viable), our challenge is less with generation and more with transmission.
Legion,
That’s about what I heard about solar panels for the home, too, although lack of funds ahs stopped me from really exploring this (we have a pretty ideal roof for this — nearly flat and no shadows). Still costly, and not all that worthwhile unless you know you aren’t moving for a while. But if NYC had a lot of solar, the nice thing is that peak generation would match peak demand — hot summer days, when the whole City is running AC.
“and expressing an appreciation for President Bush’s oil policies.”
oh boy!
Hi everyone!
Question: do my eyes “look like the fountains in England, those waterfalls. That teal”? ‘Cause a perfect stranger just told me that. I always thought they looked like supernovas but what the hell do I know.
Later!