Last week, New Jersey ran out of four months' worth of solar rebates in a day. Less money was available than originally budgeted for in December because Gov. Chris Christie (R) took $158 million from the clean energy fund to help close an $11 billion state budget gap.
Lead us toward a future of clean energy, energy independence, a clean environment, the next economic boom, a healthy sustainable plant for future generations? Hell no, why do that when you can profit by selling out the country to big oil. So it goes when Republicans get elected.
And this is the real crime…they have been suppressing renewable energy for a long, long time. I remember as a child in the early 1960’s watching a children’s morning TV show titled, “Captain Kangaroo”, and he had a guest scientist on displaying some new technologies. One was a toy car with panels on its roof, this scientist takes a flashlight, turns it on and pointes the beam on the toy cars roof and it drove across the table it was sitting on. The scientist than says that this technology is not all that far away from being refined and could soon be implemented. I have never forgotten watching that show and often wondered what had happened to the development of this technology.
ReplyDeleteA good video to watch is “Who Killed The Electric Car”, about an excellent electric car that GM had developed and was ready to be marketed in the year 2000. Than the “Big Oil” candidate Bush was elected and the marketing was dropped, the cars were gathered up and crushed.
As I was reading your first paragraph I was thinking "Who Killed the Electric Car" for sure...
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