HomeLatest ThreadsGreatest ThreadsForums & GroupsMy SubscriptionsMy Posts
DU Home » Latest Threads » Forums & Groups » Main » General Discussion (Forum) » If Solar was subsidized l... » Reply #20

Response to L0oniX (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 02:15 PM

20. So, if it can't be completed in YOUR lifetime ...

 

... then there's no reason to do it at all? I wonder how your grandchildren would feel about that attitude?

Just as no energy sector has ever flourished without government largess, there is also no completely clean form of energy. Coal mining is toxic. Oil production is toxic. Fracking is toxic. There's not an insurance company in the world that will write a liability policy for a nuclear plant - the government has to provide that insurance (i. e., YOU & ME! ... is that a business that you WANT to be in?) Are you advocating that we completely forget about a pretty good solution while we look for the perfect one?

So, who's "baking" your pie charts? Exxon/Mobil? The Heritage Foundation? ALEC? Koch Industries? Are you unaware that the Kochs are HEAVY subsidizers of PBS? - but that support is quite contingent upon content control.

I'd assert that if we stopped subsidizing fossil fuel, your metaphorical train would either be converted to run on renewable energy, or it would, indeed, just STOP!

My guess would be that you, personally, are heavily invested in fossil fuels, so your opinion about what's good for EVERYBODY is completely decided by what's best for your bottom line. Or ... perhaps you just don't give a tinker's damn about anyone else.

Reply to this post

Back to OP Alert abuse Link to post in-thread

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum
Replies to this discussion thread
Arrow 79 replies Author Time Post
packman Oct 2014 OP
truebluegreen Oct 2014 #1
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #15
Cleita Oct 2014 #2
Maineman Oct 2014 #72
L0oniX Oct 2014 #3
packman Oct 2014 #4
L0oniX Oct 2014 #7
immoderate Oct 2014 #10
L0oniX Oct 2014 #37
immoderate Oct 2014 #47
LineLineLineLineReply So, if it can't be completed in YOUR lifetime ...
staggerleem Oct 2014 #20
antiquie Oct 2014 #22
L0oniX Oct 2014 #31
ProfessorPlum Oct 2014 #59
L0oniX Oct 2014 #68
staggerleem Oct 2014 #79
ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2014 #5
L0oniX Oct 2014 #28
immoderate Oct 2014 #49
immoderate Oct 2014 #6
L0oniX Oct 2014 #8
packman Oct 2014 #9
L0oniX Oct 2014 #39
daleanime Oct 2014 #23
valerief Oct 2014 #12
L0oniX Oct 2014 #33
valerief Oct 2014 #46
L0oniX Oct 2014 #51
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #14
L0oniX Oct 2014 #34
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #36
L0oniX Oct 2014 #38
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #45
immoderate Oct 2014 #50
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #56
Thor_MN Oct 2014 #61
L0oniX Oct 2014 #66
immoderate Oct 2014 #74
Thor_MN Oct 2014 #75
bmac19gg Oct 2014 #54
Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2014 #76
pscot Oct 2014 #21
L0oniX Oct 2014 #30
pscot Oct 2014 #44
Agony Oct 2014 #26
L0oniX Oct 2014 #29
Agony Oct 2014 #40
L0oniX Oct 2014 #41
Agony Oct 2014 #42
L0oniX Oct 2014 #43
LanternWaste Oct 2014 #67
grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #53
ProfessorPlum Oct 2014 #58
L0oniX Oct 2014 #65
valerief Oct 2014 #11
rurallib Oct 2014 #24
JDPriestly Oct 2014 #13
Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2014 #16
Auggie Oct 2014 #17
DeSwiss Oct 2014 #18
NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #19
SomethingFishy Oct 2014 #25
L0oniX Oct 2014 #32
ProfessorPlum Oct 2014 #57
DeadEyeDyck Oct 2014 #27
Electric Monk Oct 2014 #35
packman Oct 2014 #71
DeadEyeDyck Oct 2014 #78
spanone Oct 2014 #48
grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #52
Jenoch Oct 2014 #55
Enthusiast Oct 2014 #60
RiverLover Oct 2014 #62
ctaylors6 Oct 2014 #63
Progressive dog Oct 2014 #64
rdking647 Oct 2014 #69
samsingh Oct 2014 #70
WinkyDink Oct 2014 #73
maced666 Oct 2014 #77
Please login to view edit histories.