{"id":9223,"date":"2014-06-01T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2014-06-02T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:26:51","slug":"energy-policy-act-of-2005-considered-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/energy-policy-act-of-2005-considered-harmful.html","title":{"rendered":"Energy Policy Act of 2005 considered harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe same Energy Policy Act of 2005<\/a> that\r\n\r\nsubsidized dirty oil and fracked methane including LNG exports<\/a>\r\nalso funded\r\n\r\nthat oxymoron “clean” coal<\/a> such as Southern Company’s Plant Ratcliffe\r\nin Mississippi,\r\n\r\nethanol production<\/a> lining the pockets of Monsanto, and\r\n\r\nthe $8.3 billion loan guarantee\r\nto Georgia Power for the new nukes at Plant Vogtle<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n2005 was a very long time ago in solar PV years:\r\n\r\nprices are halved, and installed solar power production is up more\r\nthan ten times<\/a> and growing exponentially like compound interest<\/a>.\r\nWe need to stop throwing money at dirty, water-sucking,\r\ncentralized baseload 20th century non-solutions and get on with\r\nclean 21st century distributed solar and wind power\r\nfor jobs, for energy independence, and for clean air and water,\r\nnot to mention less climate change.\r\n

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