Reaction to Obama Awarding $2B for Solar Energy

[jlhayes4]

Not surprisingly, reactions to Obama's solar energy initiative are wildly different. Check out some of the blog reaction on my latest Energizing America bledition: BLEDITOR.

[adamo21]

I hope you understand that your web-crawler news scraper is a piece of **** that serves humanity in absolutely no way. But If you like money and watching your fellow man eat dirt I guess its the way to go(for a person with no soul).

[everwiser]

Sounds like a token giveaway to two companies whose CEO's likely supported his campaign for President that will do next to nothing to create jobs that most Americans can get. Of course, compared to the "deemed" trillion dollar budgets/deficits he and his cronies continue to heap on us, $2 billion is chicken feed...F#@$ that smug b@st@rd...

[jlhayes4]

Re: everwiser

I am kind of with you everwiser. I don't see it making a big dent for the money. I guess you have to start somewhere. It just seems like a bad time to do it.

[jlhayes4]

adamo21

Sorry sir, if you felt like the post above was from a robot. Obviously, it was not- although when you get enough of bot mail/posts I would assume the same. I hope that the post did not inconvenience you too much.

The bledit I linked to is user-made and is a program meant to steal content from anyone. On the contrary, the bledit directs interested readers to blog posts on the subject. I hope someone, perhaps everwise, may have gotten something out of the post.

Thanks,
Jay

[jibbguy]

I think there is a lot the government could do but is not... Besides the "obvious" of what this forum is about, lol!

In the US, for practical reasons, anyone who researches this soon finds that State laws are what really matter. Does your State give significant rebates and/or tax credits to businesses and home owners who install solar systems? Can you get State-underwritten financing? Does it allow "running the meter backwards" (forcing the power companies to "buy-back"... lol that IS NOT happening unless they have to by law)? What are the incentives for start-up businesses who want to do alternative energy? What are requirements for companies who want to do the installs?

For that last one, i and 2 business partners found out the hard way, that what looks very good on paper (the alternative energy laws in Pennsylvania), were not so good after-all.. When it was found that they were not licensing companies to install solar systems unless they stood on one roller-skated foot, at 4:15 AM on the first Monday of October of every year, for 15 minutes (while singing "Tip-toe Through the Tulips" and making armpit farts for "percussion").

THAT was how they stopped it there

I live in Florida now. It was already pretty crappy for incentives. But just this month, the rebates they offered expired, and the scumbags in Tallahassee sucked-up to their masters and did not renew it. Never even made the news.

It is embarrassing to see a State actually go "backwards" in alternative energy.

But then FL is the sate who's Governor (Crist) was all over TV last week urging people to: "Come on down! No oil on our beaches!" ... 2 days before the EPA demanded that the Panhandle beaches be closed for dangerous levels of airborne pollutants... and oil on the beaches.