Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
Supply and Demand and Prices are just basic economics which I took my Freshman Year at Purdue. It was one of those Saturday Morning classes that freshman had to endure. Econ is pretty simple.

But I'm curious how you blame stiffed/investors on go green crowd? What does go green have to do with it? Green energy should help create more new jobs and reduce the cost of manufacturing and it should reduce the cost of power or energy like electricity.

Here were I live we are getting rid of a 250 MegWatt Coal Powered Plant and replacing it with solar, wind and a natural gas turbine for when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. It's a NG peaking station that only runs when necessary. The cost of power is still going up for some reason due to the high cost of NG these days.
I point at go-greenery that don’t put the green infrastructure in place to power the grid .... before.... they shut down the existing infrastructure. Transitions are a reasonable goal when the new is put online first, then the old is retired.

Go greenery don’t talk about the enviro impact of having no processes in place to recycle solar panels or enough capacity to properly dispose of car lithium batteries. To me a reasonable responsible approach is for examples:
1. To be granted fed approval to build electric only cars the same manufacturers should have to clearly prove they will or do have the infrastructure to receive, store, and safely recycle what they make and sell. As it is now the car maker gets the profit of the sale and passes recycle costs on to local state and fed tax payers to find the funds and way to fix it.
2. Old power plants come off line only if new one more green has been online and proves it either meets or exceeds out put at lower emissions than prior system before going down.
3. Feds and states: Plan then act, no more “ ready, FIRE, the aim.