The "Green" Con Job Continues

When are people going to realize the push for "green power" is a scam, a fraud, and a con-job? The following article addresses the issues. The fact is, we're going to be dependent on coal, oil, and gas for a long time.
Peter

Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead

By KATE GALBRAITH

The solicitations have been flooding people’s mailboxes lately: pay a bit more on your electricity bill for 100 percent clean wind power. Or, the fliers say, buy “green power certificates” to offset your global warming emissions.

Close to a million electricity customers have signed up for such payments voluntarily, and the amount of electricity sold in this way has nearly tripled since 2005, amid rising concern about climate change and energy security. But the participants are in a distinct minority, with a sign-up rate of only about 2 percent in programs run by utilities.

The low sign-up rate raises a question: If large majorities of Americans favor increased government support for clean energy, as polls suggest, why are so many people reluctant to back such programs when it comes to paying extra themselves?

One reason might be that they think the added expense is too high. Solar and wind power generally cost more than power generated with fossil fuels. While many people support alternative energy in principle, they personally may not want to spend hundreds of dollars more for electricity, especially in the current economic environment.

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From the above article, a typical brainwashed "sucker" says:

"It's about what's good for the Planet," said Mark Renfrow, a Dallas homeowner who this summer began paying his electric company an extra $26 dollars per month for "wind energy". My guess is what he's really getting for his money is a lot of hot air.