PV Gap

Janice Said:

why did republicans vote against tax credits for companies who produce solar and wind energies...?

We Answered:

hmmmmmmmmm
corruption?

Dorothy Said:

Why would alternative energy companies need tax credits if their technology was superior?

We Answered:

Sorry, I cannot agree with you. Technology takes a long time to perfect.

Also tax breaks are NOT subsidies. Subsidies are a big fat check the Government sends out. Tax breaks are being allowed to write off the cost (all, or partial) on ones taxes. I can write off the interest I pay on my mortgage, ever year on my taxes. Thank heavens their are ways to recieve tax breaks.

Did you know Hoover Dam was built with huge funding from the Government (subsidies) and tax breaks. Do you believe the technology in Hoover Dam is "unproven" and doesn't work?

Did you know the oil companies not only recieve TITANIC tax breaks from the Government, they also recieve TITANIC subsidies from the Government? Do you believe that oil and gas are unproven technologies? Or does your car do fairly well getting you from point A to point B? Perhaps you would feel better if the Government subsidies to the oil companies went away, so we in the U.S.A. could pay $10-$12 a gallon for our fuel, just as the Europeans are?

There's another slight problem with your argument. Wind, & solar have not been worked on steadly for the past 25 years. Everyone was ga-ga for wind and solar in the 1970's during the first gas crunch. Then oil prices began to drop, and drop like a stone. Did you know that in the 1990's the U.S. could often purchase oil for $11 a barrel? Sometimes even cheaper. Oil and gas were so dirt cheap, there was no way to get funding to do research on wind and solar. Nobody saw any way that money put into researching wind and solar would ever be recovered.

Now the second gas crunch is here, and people are screaming for wind and solar. Those technologies has improved by leapes and bounds. My husband works on the commercial wind turbines.

There's an old wind farm they are upgrading to the new, modern wind turbines. There are over 600 old wind turbines at the wind farm. For every new, modern wind turbine they put up, they rip out NINTY of the old ones! One modern wind turbine has the same energy output as 90 of the older wind turbines. That's amazing! Imagine if our cars kept that kind of pace up! All cars would be getting a few hundred miles to the gallon.

The problem with the "cheaper resources" is they are all based on some form of fossil fuel (except nukes). Fossil fuels WILL eventually run out. I'd much rather see investment, and infrastructure into alternative energies right now, instead of waiting until it's too late.

~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years