<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Surveys show Americans more concerned about energy prices than environment]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/greenbacks-trump-green/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:24:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/greenbacks-trump-green/1 22 Percent of Transit...for Bikes and Walking ?!!!


I found this out in my recent Kent Bicycle Advisory Board meeting.   A national study to determine where Americans would spend transit dollars had a seismic shift over the last decade -- and it was conducted way before the worst of the gas price increases.

Whereas most thought only 1 percent of funding should go to bike and pedestrian roads in 1998...ten years later most would put 22 percent of funding into bikeways and sidewalks!!

http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/newsmail.asp?art=6854& ...

-> According to an article in the Oct. 27th edition of Smart Growth Online, "Even before gas prices spiked high above $4 per gallon this spring and summer, a Harris Interactive poll found last December that 81 percent of Americans would radically change federal outlays of the 1998 Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from 79 percent for roads, 20 percent for mass transit, and 1 percent for biking and walking, to 37, 41, and 22 percent, respectively, in its 2009 replacement bill."

http://www.bikewalk.org/news.php


]]> 22 Percent of Transit...for Bikes and Walking ?!!!


I found this out in my recent Kent Bicycle Advisory Board meeting.   A national study to determine where Americans would spend transit dollars had a seismic shift over the last decade -- and it was conducted way before the worst of the gas price increases.

Whereas most thought only 1 percent of funding should go to bike and pedestrian roads in 1998...ten years later most would put 22 percent of funding into bikeways and sidewalks!!

http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/newsmail.asp?art=6854& ...

-> According to an article in the Oct. 27th edition of Smart Growth Online, "Even before gas prices spiked high above $4 per gallon this spring and summer, a Harris Interactive poll found last December that 81 percent of Americans would radically change federal outlays of the 1998 Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from 79 percent for roads, 20 percent for mass transit, and 1 percent for biking and walking, to 37, 41, and 22 percent, respectively, in its 2009 replacement bill."

http://www.bikewalk.org/news.php


]]> Comment #2 by stopgreenpath http://www.grist.org/article/greenbacks-trump-green/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:39:28 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/greenbacks-trump-green/2 ecology and economy not mutually exclusive

if we had feed in tariffs, all of us could be EARNING CASH for producing clean energy on our own properties, instead of opening another vein to pay 100% of the cost of a massive new monopolistic infrastructure.  either way, ratepayers and taxpayers are kicking in to jump-start renewable investments.  why on earth would ANY of us elect to flow all that money, plus kill off millions and millions of acres of our taxpayer owned land, plus deplete all our aquifers, plus endorse a massive powerline infrastructure that will blow GHG emissions THROUGH THE ROOF, when we could all be getting paid for producing clean, harmless energy and conserving???

we need to get the discussion back to where it belongs.  you would think after the blatant hijackings by Enron, Sempra, Big Oil and now Big Banks that we might snap out of our Stockholm Syndrome and refuse to re-enslave ourselves to monopolists, but the greenwashing has been fast and fierce and some very well-intentioned people are completely cross-eyed by the lies that Big Solar and Big Wind (and their major investors who we thought we could trust - Kennedys and Pelosis).

feed in tariffs have been wildly successful in 40 countries.  if america ever decides that we aren't the only country with good ideas, and starts to look around, we will learn how to effectively incentivize large-scale, rapid installation of rooftop solar and microwind at point of use.  grid decongestion, property value increases, more local jobs, no planet slaughter.  what's not to love?

the greenest energy is that which you needn't ever produce.

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if we had feed in tariffs, all of us could be EARNING CASH for producing clean energy on our own properties, instead of opening another vein to pay 100% of the cost of a massive new monopolistic infrastructure.  either way, ratepayers and taxpayers are kicking in to jump-start renewable investments.  why on earth would ANY of us elect to flow all that money, plus kill off millions and millions of acres of our taxpayer owned land, plus deplete all our aquifers, plus endorse a massive powerline infrastructure that will blow GHG emissions THROUGH THE ROOF, when we could all be getting paid for producing clean, harmless energy and conserving???

we need to get the discussion back to where it belongs.  you would think after the blatant hijackings by Enron, Sempra, Big Oil and now Big Banks that we might snap out of our Stockholm Syndrome and refuse to re-enslave ourselves to monopolists, but the greenwashing has been fast and fierce and some very well-intentioned people are completely cross-eyed by the lies that Big Solar and Big Wind (and their major investors who we thought we could trust - Kennedys and Pelosis).

feed in tariffs have been wildly successful in 40 countries.  if america ever decides that we aren't the only country with good ideas, and starts to look around, we will learn how to effectively incentivize large-scale, rapid installation of rooftop solar and microwind at point of use.  grid decongestion, property value increases, more local jobs, no planet slaughter.  what's not to love?

the greenest energy is that which you needn't ever produce.

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