 merrie says: In the Messiah’s world I guess Germany would be a valid example of going green if it was sustainable and if they were not dismantling a great deal of it at this time. The currently generate 15% of their energy through renewable sources. As it turns out Germany has neither much sun nor much wind and renewable energy companies are mostly on the government dole at a huge expense to the country. Sounds Obama-like with some sort of thing they call a “feed-in-tariff” whereby the producers are guaranteed a price 7 times higher than the wholesale rate for the next 20 years. The German electricity bill went up 38% in one year in 2007. And the Germans have discovered that renewable energy is very inefficient in all respects thus it will always be tremendously costly compared to other forms of power. And what about the Obama fantasy called cap-and-trade which is also a disaster in Europe. According to Alex Alexiev, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C., “four years after its introduction, the EU carbon trading scheme has failed to create a functioning emissions permit market, to generate revenues, or to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as promised…..but lead to large increases in the price of electricity.” Mr. Alexiev further states, “The bottom line is that for the foreseeable future renewable energy will remain a pie-in-the-sky green fantasy, not feasible economically without huge public subsidies.” And my God, once again I am agreeing with the French! They generate 80% of their energy from nuclear power. Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Ukraine, Russ... |
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