"...there are two drawbacks to solar power - 1) You're at the mercy of Mother Nature for sunlight; and 2) It's drastically more expensive than fossil-fuel electricity."

Plus, wait and see the environmentalists' reaction to vast areas of landscape covered with those pretty solar collectors. I know they were all for wind power until they saw hill sides covered with turbines. Not to mention the proposed wind farm off Hyannis Port...

Funny how libs who claim to care about the middle class don't see any problem with forcing people to give up cheaper, more efficient forms of energy for expensive and impractical forms of energy. We'll all absorb higher energy bills with no problem, won't we? And of course, higher energy costs will not be a factor in the price of everything else we need like food, clothing, medicine, etc. What idiots! For the life of me, I don't get the need to abandon oil rather than look for cleaner, more efficient ways to search for oil, refine it, and use it. We've already made progress in that area, and we could probably do even better. You don't have to be crazy to be an environmentalist, but it seems to help. When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Did Duprey actually say that making coal plants more expensive would force the cost of solar power down?  

I could see it if he said it would make it more competitive, but down?  I don't think so.  All I see is energy prices going up - and for absolutely no good reason. 

Isn't this price fixing to eliminate copetition?  Isn't this why ENRON is out of business and people are in jail?

"Mental" is in "environmentalism"....

yes it will be more expensive to initially get the solar electric and solar water, but we are going to have it on our remote property mainly because we don't want to be dependant on the government. we have electric and will be tapped into the grid so we can resell it back to the state and after a while we'll eventually build a battery barn so we are entirely self-sufficient. we'll have a windmill to pump our well and solar water heaters. the whole point in doing so is not to save the planet, not to play into the global warming lie, not to make tree huggers happy, not to stick it to the utility companies, we're doing it to be a shining example of an independant conservative and so we can cut as many ties with the government as possible. frak environmentalists we're doing this for our own selfish desires. haha

ah yes the cost is high but i can cut quite a bit of it since i can do all the install myself. my own labor saves a ton.

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NBC wouldn't, by some strange coincidence, be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company that has an interest in promoting "alternative energy" would it?

All they've got is smoke and mirrors.

All these enivro-nuts and eco-militants have to offer is taxation, Robin Hood economics, and big government non-solutions.