Comments on: Texas & Conservatives Charging Forward on Clean Energy & Climate Action

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:42:00 +0000

But, returning to the expanded constituencies, you can see in such conservative strongholds like Kansas, Iowa, and Texas this excitement for clean energy. Indeed, it is those Senators who are also pushing for the wind energy tax credit to not expire, the likes of Sam Brownback, probably one of the most reprehensible people on planet earth, but stalwart defender of wind energy indeed! Create the constituencies for clean energy, clean water, clean air and healthy food and non-carbon dependent infrastructure and you can run on it with less dire consequences like our cap-and-trade legislation wrought. This is about jobs, after all, and clean tech has a lot (a LOT!) of jobs to offer with the right policies in place so as not to threaten it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:37:00 +0000

I like this because of the expanding constituency of clean energy. Obama is doing some interesting work with Re-Powering American lands, which is essentially putting in cleantech power generators (CSPs, geothermal, wind farms) on old contaminated lands. They’re doing this in Wyoming and I think in large areas of Texas. People will see the jobs it generates, and the benefits of having power that doesn’t contaminate.

However, Big Oil has a lot of oil in reserves, like billions of barrels worth in reserves. It wants that oil to get burned, to get processed, etc. And Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, etc. are raking in massive profits that this world has never seen before (except in 2008, right before the crash). I don’t think people really understand this. This is why regulations need to be put into place to cap carbon, because the market is totally rewarding the annihilation of our atmosphere and, in turn, our very lives.

Whatever good news comes from the advances in clean tech, exceptional news comes to oil company stocks and sovereign wealth funds that are dependent on oil prices and profits. How people don’t make the connection between our endless billion $ plus natural disasters, lack of winter and skyrocketing asthma and lung disease rates is beyond me. And Obama is not a courageous one when it comes to this problem. And, in truth, I don’t think he can be with the oil money pitted against him.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:32:00 +0000

It’s the only think that I can think of that will save our collective butts.

It’s the same sort of weirdness as Big Business bringing us world peace.

It’s in the interest of large corporations to not have supply chains and markets disrupted. More to lose by fighting than by getting along.

If Big Business can get us off fossil fuels in time, so be it. We can deal with fair distribution of wealth as a separate issue….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:28:00 +0000

Haha, love this:

“This is the kind of news I love to hear. Renewables are taking their place as major industries and those who live to make money are starting to pay attention.”

Yes, I think the greenies have done their part, for the most part. Now, the money-makers can come in and scale it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:16:00 +0000

This is the kind of news I love to hear. Renewables are taking their place as major industries and those who live to make money are starting to pay attention.

Global climate change won’t be stopped by a few of us ‘greenies’ putting solar panels on our roofs, it will take a change in the way big business does business. We need massive installations and we need them soon.

Along with this we get news today that GE is not only manufacturing wind turbines but they are beginning to finance wind farms. This is some more great news. One of the largest corporations in the world has decided that wind technology is now mature enough to make it a good investment. GE providing wind farm loans means that companies who are interested in building a wind farm can go to a funding source which totally understands the technology and that will make financing easier and quicker.