Comments on: Republicans Fighting for Bad Market Practices http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: juangault http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-9073 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:12:32 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-9073 If you were walking in the shoes these men wear, you’d probably be doing the same thing. There is a pattern in human behavior. Being fair and just is not easy. Like walking on a rope. The way that a lot of people, Republican and Democrat, make a living is to have the power to add cost to a product on it’s way to the consumer. The power becomes obsessive over time, and the price rises. Competition is suppose to keep things in check. The final equation is the advantage of centralized mass production, versus higher cost-of-production, but decentralized distribution of what people need. One way is more profitable, one way is harder work. If one never does work for a living, how else can they make it besides being superfluous businessmen? It will do us little good to replace centralized coal electricity with centralized windfarm electricity. Investors want their money. Alternative energy is best generated where it’s used. Skid the grid, let Bloom lead the way.

]]> By: juangault http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-26292 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-26292 If you were walking in the shoes these men wear, you’d probably be doing the same thing. There is a pattern in human behavior. Being fair and just is not easy. Like walking on a rope. The way that a lot of people, Republican and Democrat, make a living is to have the power to add cost to a product on it’s way to the consumer. The power becomes obsessive over time, and the price rises. Competition is suppose to keep things in check. The final equation is the advantage of centralized mass production, versus higher cost-of-production, but decentralized distribution of what people need. One way is more profitable, one way is harder work. If one never does work for a living, how else can they make it besides being superfluous businessmen? It will do us little good to replace centralized coal electricity with centralized windfarm electricity. Investors want their money. Alternative energy is best generated where it’s used. Skid the grid, let Bloom lead the way.

]]> By: juangault http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-26293 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-26293 If you were walking in the shoes these men wear, you’d probably be doing the same thing. There is a pattern in human behavior. Being fair and just is not easy. Like walking on a rope. The way that a lot of people, Republican and Democrat, make a living is to have the power to add cost to a product on it’s way to the consumer. The power becomes obsessive over time, and the price rises. Competition is suppose to keep things in check. The final equation is the advantage of centralized mass production, versus higher cost-of-production, but decentralized distribution of what people need. One way is more profitable, one way is harder work. If one never does work for a living, how else can they make it besides being superfluous businessmen? It will do us little good to replace centralized coal electricity with centralized windfarm electricity. Investors want their money. Alternative energy is best generated where it’s used. Skid the grid, let Bloom lead the way.

]]> By: Bill W http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-9072 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:01:17 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-9072 Many Republican politicians, especially those from coal and oil states, have adopted a party line that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax and that therefore there’s no reason to do anything about it.

Ultimately, when we reach the point that climate change is so obvious that even they can no longer deny it, these men may face prosecution (or at least persecution) for the damage they’ve caused. Sadly, by that point it may be too late to prevent runaway warming.

]]> By: Bill W http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-26291 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:01:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-26291 Many Republican politicians, especially those from coal and oil states, have adopted a party line that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax and that therefore there’s no reason to do anything about it.

Ultimately, when we reach the point that climate change is so obvious that even they can no longer deny it, these men may face prosecution (or at least persecution) for the damage they’ve caused. Sadly, by that point it may be too late to prevent runaway warming.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-9071 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:45:46 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-9071 Wyoming is 90% coal powered, (and has vigorously resisted passing a Renewable Energy Standard, keeping it that way).

Senator Barrasso also opposed the $10,000 rebates for his constituents that is funding such a rush on home wind projects in windy Wyoming that they ran out of (the amount the state supposed was) a year’s funding within weeks.

It’s too bad.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/07/republicans-fighting-for-bad-market-practices-that-will-harm-the-economy/#comment-26290 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=6654#comment-26290 Wyoming is 90% coal powered, (and has vigorously resisted passing a Renewable Energy Standard, keeping it that way).

Senator Barrasso also opposed the $10,000 rebates for his constituents that is funding such a rush on home wind projects in windy Wyoming that they ran out of (the amount the state supposed was) a year’s funding within weeks.

It’s too bad.

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