Kliphnote: I know many of Obama's lap dogs think that he invented solar and wind and other alternative energy sources. Maybe Obama told them he did.
But as you can see it has been mentioned since at least when
Nixon was president.
The idea is to make alternative energy cost competitive with oil.
But Obama wants the opposite, he wants to increase oil prices to
compete with alternative energy prices.
Who will be effected the most by high gas prices?
The poor and middle class.
Wake up America, before it's too late.
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The Bush administration has installed the first-ever solar electric
system on the grounds of the White House. The National Park Service,
which manages the White House complex, installed a nine kilowatt,
rooftop solar electric or photovoltaic system, as well as two solar
thermal systems that heat water used on the premises.
Only your dispassionate Canadian correspondent could write this without colour or favour, but is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. "By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small," says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. "Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses." http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/is-george-bush-a-closet-green.html#ch01
Richard Nixon: Special Message to the Congress on Energy Resources
The American Presidency Project
June
4, 1971
In this speech, President Nixon outlined some of his energy policies.
Nixon stated that "A sufficient supply of clean energy is essential if
we are to sustain healthy economic growth and improve the quality of our
national life." Among other things, Nixon suggested that the U.S.
"[b]egin work to modernize and expand our uranium enrichment capacity."
Only your dispassionate Canadian correspondent could write this without colour or favour, but is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. "By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small," says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. "Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses." http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/is-george-bush-a-closet-green.html#ch01
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 panels installed atop the White House to capture the sun’s heat. Thirty-odd years later, at least one of the panels still works, warming up in the Northeastern sunlight of Boston and sending steam heat out of a spigot on September 8, en route down the east coast from its temporary home at Unity College in Maine.
Republicans break with Bush on ethanol
ST. PAUL |
(Reuters) - U.S. Republicans called on Monday for an end to a
controversial requirement that gasoline contain a set amount of ethanol,
a policy backed by the Bush administration that critics say has helped
drive up world food prices.
Associated Press
|
1 month ago
Germany to cut subsidies for solar power
BERLIN (AP) — Germany
plans to reduce government subsidies supporting solar power by up to 30
percent within a year because higher-than-expected demand has made the
scheme far more costly than authorities initially expected.
The
country's drive to abandon nuclear energy in the wake of Japan's
Fukushima nuclear disaster has led to a boom in solar power
installations last year that vastly exceeded the government's forecasts.
Owners
of solar power installations in Germany receive a guaranteed
above-market price for the electricity they sell to the energy grid.
That amounted last year to a subsidy of some euro6 billion ($7.9
billion), which is financed through a levy on every household's
electricity bill.
Solar industry faces subsidy cuts in Europe
Across
Europe, governments are slashing public spending to cut their deficits,
and green-energy subsidies are a target, too, even as solar power
accelerates in the United States, helped by sympathetic federal policies
and an increase in subsidies that came as part of the federal stimulus program.
Advocates say that in sunny regions, solar energy is within several years of becoming cost-competitive with fossil-fuel power — if solar companies can stay in business in the meantime. Several companies have already declared bankruptcy. Others say they’ll give up on Europe and focus on developing countries, where poor infrastructure makes solar panels that work off the grid a cost-effective competitor to diesel generators.
In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar
companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there
was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce.
Germany’s hardscrabble East turned old Communist-era military bases into
power plants. Some solar companies became experts at digging up unexploded munitions to make way for fields of photovoltaic panel
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