Posted on 05/15/2015 2:15:38 PM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
The green energy movement in America is dead. May it rest in peace. No, a majority of American energy over the next 20 years is not going to come from windmills and solar panels. One important lesson to be learned from the green energy fad’s rapid and expensive demise is that central planning doesn’t work.
What crushed green energy was the boom in shale oil and gas along with the steep decline in the price of fossil fuel that few saw coming just a few years ago.
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When oil prices were collapsing people were talking up the economic benefits of the fracking industry.
Now that oil prices are once again on the rise people are talking about the death knell of the fracking industry.
It must be hell trying to be a reporter for the commodities market.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last oil price spike. And I don’t think green energy is dead at all.
I think nuclear still makes the most sense. But we need better batteries, and I think they are coming. They’re still subsidizing ethanol, and I doubt that will change any time soon.
$2.29 a gallon here.
Obama was supposed to protect them from that.
Presumably you are in CA which now has higher prices that Hawaii.
There is tight supply here and no other sources of supply since we have special blends.
Then the Torrance fire and Martinez strike.
Then the carbon tax.
No end in sight for the price increases.
Prices were down to around $2 about a year ago. As I said at the time, the Saudis were flooding the market to make new production in North America unprofitable. Once the oil drilling boom slowed down they would cut back and prices would go back up, partly at least. It’s still cheaper than it was before, but nowhere near $2. Of course here in CA we have the highest priced gas in the country. They just added to the tax in January.
From what I can see, solar prices are going down just as much as oil. They will both be competing to keep prices down.
As long as the global warning/climate change lies go on, so will the quest for a ‘green’ America. The envirowackos hate oil almost as much as they hate conservatives, except when it comes time to refuel their private jet.
As long as the global warning/climate change lies go on, so will the quest for a ‘green’ America. The envirowackos hate oil almost as much as they hate conservatives, except when it comes time to refuel their private jet.
Everyone failed to account for cheap oil (me included). But renewables have NOTHING to do with that...the purpose of renewables is to WEAKEN this country economically, so that we essentially burn up money that otherwise could be put to good use. If you understand these people, it all makes sense, if you don’t, then you need to do some homework.
I went to college with these people, got drunk with them - I know who they are and what they want, and energy is only a VEHICLE to achieve that end. It has NOTHING to do with alleged Global Warming, the Snail Darter, or anything else they claim.
It’s time we STOP giving them the benefit of the doubt, whether it is regarding military matters, energy, or even the education of your precious children. They are PURE EVIL and we MUST learn to accept that.
You live in CA, where taxes and government fees drive the prices of gas way up. Much of the rest of the country was enjoying ~$2 gasoline (or less) for the past few months.
“Don’t you love living in California?”
A question. In California for the last few years, diesel was above gasoline in price.
However it is now cheaper by the biggest margin I have ever seen—about $0.65 per gallon below regular.
Can you explain it to me?
Strictly a California thing. Refinery hassles in CA have spiked gas but apparently not diesel.
Any other states where diesel is currently cheaper than gas?
In California we don't care whether a particular policy makes sense. It just has to sound good. ;-)
Interesting explanation:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_28006525/diesel-drivers-get-break-at-pump
Solar has come down dramatically but marketers won’t market it for what it’s good for- low power demand.
They want to sell it for running whole houses: refrigerators, air conditioners- high power demand uses.
And it fails miserably at that.
Nearly everyone would have a short payback period putting their lights and other low power devices on a separate low voltage solar circuit. And those savings add up.
But the industry is pushing subsidized, long (risky) payback uses.
My thought exactly. The crude price keeps rising relentlessly and in my part of CA regular gas was ranging from $3.75 to $4.15 a gallon yesterday. The price of crude is advancing so much that several fracking companies are going back into full production, according to the business news. I believe those who thought the price would stay low were whistling past the graveyard.
Love the sarcasm, yet you're right. Lots of ethanol blended into our gasoline in California. That's green, right? Yet the production of corn releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the ethanol-blended gasoline prevents. Lots of corn produced in California, about 16 percent of the nation's production. Corn production depletes aquifers and streams and contributes to oxygen-deprived “dead zones” lethal to marine life. In California, where we have an extreme water shortage, it can take more than 3,500 liters of water to produce a single liter of ethanol (according to researchers at UC Berkeley). So let's grow more corn, deplete our water supply, and drive up the price of gasoline while we're at it.
Yes, the policies in California don't make sense, but it sure sounds good!
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