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Rep. Kanjorski's Unreasonable, Unconscionably Ridiculous Idea

Keep the government out of it and it will turn out better. The government has already wasted billions of dollars since the early 70's pushing energy policies in certain directions. When gas gets high enough, and people are hurting enough over the high prices (no I'm not heartless just practical) then the market will head in the best direction with the best technology. Government can never do anything more efficiently then free market........how are your grocery prices lately since the latest stupid government intervention. Trees got scarce and whale oil was used. When whale oil got scarce coal and oil came on line......see where this is heading. Quoting Ronald the ten scariest words in the English language are "I'm here from the government and I'm here to help." True if the middle east cuts off oil completely we'd be in a big hurt, but can they afford to do that?

Renewable Energy: Approaching Grid Parity?

WOW. A bunch of good answers and all partially correct. Free market baby! Keep the government out of it! When gas gets too expensive people will start conserving and will naturally turn to new sources. Study history and you'll see necessity is the mother of invention. When politicians push an agenda the outcomes are not good. From the 70's on we have wasted money pushing renewable resources with no real advantages. All energy sources in the future will have a place and as oil gets more expensive and technologies of renewables gets cheaper........ people will change over without you, your senator or anyone else doing anything. Sit back and watch it happen and the trick is knowing what and when to buy.