<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Hound your representative to add an RPS to the energy bill]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by trock http://www.grist.org/article/renewable-energy-on-the-ropes/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:46 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/renewable-energy-on-the-ropes/1 energy research spending

These are worthy things to support.   We also should support more spending on energy research in the Department of Energy.

The National Government bill for Intelligence is 43 billion a year.   The research and development cost in the Department of Defense for new weapon systems is 83 billion dollars a year.   The amount we spend on renewable energy is just a few billion a year.  We should increase that greatly.

What are the proposals in Congress now for renewable energy in the Department of Energy in the majority Democratic Congress?  We should be behind it to increase the research effort.  There are a lot of worthy energy programs that are underfunded.

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These are worthy things to support.   We also should support more spending on energy research in the Department of Energy.

The National Government bill for Intelligence is 43 billion a year.   The research and development cost in the Department of Defense for new weapon systems is 83 billion dollars a year.   The amount we spend on renewable energy is just a few billion a year.  We should increase that greatly.

What are the proposals in Congress now for renewable energy in the Department of Energy in the majority Democratic Congress?  We should be behind it to increase the research effort.  There are a lot of worthy energy programs that are underfunded.

]]> Comment #2 by GRLCowan http://www.grist.org/article/renewable-energy-on-the-ropes/ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:34:06 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/renewable-energy-on-the-ropes/2 It could hardly be otherwise

There are a lot of worthy energy programs that are underfunded

This is to be expected from a government and a government department that is largely funded from petroleum and natural gas taxation. They are exactly as motivated to fund worthy energy programs that would reduce their paymaster's petrodollar profits as would be a group of private Exxon-Mobil coupon clippers.

That is why the US government hasn't built an experimental nuclear power reactor in decades.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, boron internal combustion fan
How shall cars gain nuclear cachet?
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/boron_blast.html

]]> It could hardly be otherwise

There are a lot of worthy energy programs that are underfunded

This is to be expected from a government and a government department that is largely funded from petroleum and natural gas taxation. They are exactly as motivated to fund worthy energy programs that would reduce their paymaster's petrodollar profits as would be a group of private Exxon-Mobil coupon clippers.

That is why the US government hasn't built an experimental nuclear power reactor in decades.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, boron internal combustion fan
How shall cars gain nuclear cachet?
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/boron_blast.html

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