Can Renewables Compete?

We need to begin the shift as quickly as possible from living
off earth's savings to living off earth's income. The implications
of this policy shift need to be reflected in our demands on our
political leader at all levels of government, industry and personal
lifestyles.Water: Out law R/O systems and water softeners to reduce
water usage and salinity in downstream water.The average new home
with a water softener adds 10.5 pounds of chlorides to down stream
water per week. R/O systems use 3 to 5 gallons of water to produce
one gallon of drinkable water and the back wash is so toxic you
cannot even use it to water your plants or golf courses.Health
Care: We need to move from a Sickness Health Care System to a
Wellness health Care System. Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition!Fossil
fuels: We need to move from fossil fuels to bio-diesel. From
standard bio-diesel facilities that use food & water to produce
bio-diesel to the new technology marketed by Green Star Products,
Inc (GSPI.PK) that uses algae & no water.Subsidies: We need to
shift all subsidies to the production of clean technology as fast
as the market can absorb it.Political: All political parties from
the precinct up need to promote this philosophy in all things. It
will be like peeling an union. Each success will present another
challenge.

If we get out and vote the Democrats into power they have
pledged to reallocate $6B in subsidies that Bush has pledged to the
oil companies and reallocate it in the first 100 HOURS to renewable
energy sources.We have only our selves to blame if we don't
vote.The fossil fuel industry lives off earths savings (Read
Republican). The renewable industry is advocating that we live off
earths income (Read Democrat.

well a comment to the normal balance of big enterprise,competing
with the little guy(u and I that are on renewable energy source)
they dont like us,never did and never will... we are the enemy, it
is all about what they say "if it dont make dollars then it dont
make sense"....but now the difference is we are slowly getting a
voice in the big pic of how energy is consumed and dispensed..they
played us with the gas prices and then it went down again when
people started to drive less,well my come back to them,was to buy a
much smaller car with the fantastic gas milage and still I drive
less so they will feel it from u and I,if we all change our
consuption habits and stick with it and make it a lifestyle choice
instead of a temp thing..Renewable energy is fun to do and saves u
money this is a no brainer....think about it,if u can save an extra
$1,200. per yr then u get to do and have more fun in ur
life

How dare you list blacklung benefits as subsidies. If you knew
the suffering and how many ex-miners from earlier,dustier mining
techniques have died a long slow death, you wouldn't think of them
as subsidies. The coal companies pay into these well fought for
funds and as well they should!Not so our federal
government.

I don't think the suffering of so many people is in question
here. The government tax credit(s) for what the companies pay into
those well fought for funds is the issue. It means the funds come,
in whole or at least in part, from your wallet and mine, not the
companies. In my book, that's a subsidy.Merriam Webster uses this
phrase: "a grant by a government to a private person or company to
assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public"You
certainly can't argue that it's not advantageous to the public.
And, you certainly can't argue that the companies are not capable
of paying these benefits themselves.Plain and simple, there is no
need for government money here, whether real or in the form of a
tax write-off. Unfortunately, it's what it takes to make sure that
the people who need/deserve the compensation actually receive
it.

Not only are present energy systems highly subsidized, but
someone that thinks "renewable" energy sources can't compete in a
"free market" fails to recognize that fossil fuel energy itself
represents a tremendous, one-time subsidy for the human race. That
energy was stored away for eons and exists now to subsidize human
expansion, including our luxurious desires. Thus, the whole fossil
fuel industry is one tremendous subsidy for human development. Once
that energy is gone, our systems can no longer exist in their
present state. It is simply ludicrous for someone to claim that
fossil fuel energy systems are a true "free market" way of doing
business. All of the energy contained in Earth's biosphere is solar
energy, which makes Nature a free market solar economy. Any use of
fossil fuels is a subsidy of that economy. I find it shocking just
how confused our worldview is if we actually see fossil fuels as a
part of a "free market" economy.