Energy Expert: America Should Get 50% Of Its Power From Renewable Sources Within 20 Years
This is the problem with green advocates: They make bold pronouncements like this one and then expect everyone to live up to it regardless if it’s even possible.
The reality is that energy is a market much like any other. Unless energy from alternative sources can compete with energy from traditional sources (fossil fuels, etc.) nothing short of government mandates (and/or big time subsidies) will have those sources being used. But the problem with mandates and subsidies is that they rely on politicians to choose the right energy sources to mandate/subsidize. And what if they choose the wrong source? What if they base their choice more on political expediency and the influence of lobbyists than on which source is the most reliable and viable?
I think it’d be great if we could find an energy alternative to fossil fuels. I think it’d be great if we could get all of our power from solar or wind sources or something like that. But I don’t think it’d be great if we leave the choice for where we get our power up to politicians instead of millions of free people making free choices in a free market.












