tom Andersen

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

pachanguero,

I said get rid of or lower income taxes! That is an increase how? Income taxes are an accident of WW I. They really don't make sense. I should be able to keep all the money I make, and invest it all if I desire. Tax consumption.

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

One nice thing about natural gas - when electricity prices rise waaay up, individuals will be able to buy nat gas furnaces that make electricity while they heat your house. 'Micro cogen' - like this Honda:
world.honda.com/news/2...
These could charge your car too. Good for the northern states.
T. Boone just wants to make money - but with current incentives and tax breaks, all the money that he will make from wind will come directly from taxpayers - which he does not make clear on his site, and which is dishonest.

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

It should not be the governments job to 'push' individual pet technologies. It actually turns out that wind power is great - for Goldman Sachs and other big cats like Florida Light and Power. The real money in wind is in the corporate tax breaks, not the actual power, which costs at least 20c/kwh (about 4 or 5 times coal and nuclear, 10x of hydro).
Instead of taxing peoples incomes, we need to tax carbon, packaging and consumption. Tax what you don't want to happen. Then let real economics take over. The real way to lower imports is to keep the cost of gasoline high - through (carbon) taxes if necc. Fat chance of that happening, though! Politicians have little of the bravery that would be required to overhaul the tax system.

With a hefty carbon tax in place, we would not have to argue the merits of wind/solar/nat gas/oil/coal sequestration etc... - Just let real innovation take over. The only innovation in the current system is in the halls of Wall Street. We all know where that eventually takes us.
--Tom