US Invests In Smart Electric Grids

Converting to renewable energy & energy independence wouldn't be like remodeling the bathroom. It would be like turning up your air conditioning, turning down your heater, getting a water saving shower head & putting a couple solar panels on your roof. Then trading in your gas guzzling clunker for a 60 mpg hybrid with a $4000 tax credit.

Maybe that's why you're broke? Because you can't even figure out & follow smart economic advice. In fact, you can't even make a fair & accurate analogy.

If global warming is a problem, burning fossil fuels a little bit slower isn't going to help a damn thing, burning it a lot slower doesn't do anything. The fact is, we will reach peak oil soon, well before any damage control would have any effect on the environment The ever rising prices of oil will naturally bring about renewable research and development, it already has. There are enormous investments in this field, they just haven't found anything that works well enough, but hi taxes wont help

We'll have to agree to disagree. There are already several proposals, that seem plausible to me, on how to re-fix the carbon that is in the atmosphere. Of course these proposals need to be tested and since this is a negative externality, there is no private sector solution.

I dunno how you got onto taxes. We weren't talking about taxes. I am not currently paying higher taxes. And according to you, you're not making that much money... so why are you paying more in taxes?

When did I say I wasn't making money. The earlier post was just an analogy, which is why it's starts off "It's as if"
I'm making money, what that money will be able to buy is the million dollar question

Anytime you bring up renewable energy or global warming, it automatically leads to cap and trade. Cap and trade will be the largest tax hike in history on every American including you.Gas,electricity,consumer products will be more expensive and it won't do a damn thing to help global warming.

I see, you were fortune telling.

As for not helping anthropogenic GW, I recently sat in on a lecture by some guys from the NSF who work in the arctic. I saw their data for increases in CH3 output. So we'll have to agree to disagree. I guess we can work it out at the voting booth.

I'm not worried about taxes or inflation. In fact I've been trying to scale down my consumption rate. Also we just got a tax credit for new windows in our home & a friend got 'cash for clunkers'. Thanks Obama et al!

Last thing, just to clarify our differences.

As you can see, I'm having trouble worrying about your economic catastrophe scenario based on the Federal tax scheme. I could see a problem because of continued population growth & the pressure it is putting on our growth & debt based economic system. So what I am saying is - I am more threatened by people who have 3 & 4 or more kids. It's easier to reverse a tax than to find 1.5 times more jobs in the next 15 years to make up for population growth.

Hell yeah! It's about time. I'm sure the Republicans will find a way to be against this as well, even though it will require a shitload of new, good jobs. Leave it to conservatives to be against updating an antiquated electrical grid. I can just hear Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin; it'll be something like, "This is the kind of thing Stalin did during the Cold War" or some other stupid bullshit.

Right on, Barack!

amazing that you would refer to me as Al Queda base on my quote "out the caves and into the light" I was refering to Plato.
This may just be youtube but some of us have fought for this country so keep your composure before you take your frustration out on your key board pass out insults.

He talks nice, but too bad he doesn't understand economics and makes Keynesian fallacies.

@krokion
What are you, Al Queda? We dont live in caves in America,yet.