How to fix America, Part 4 --- ENERGY

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Have all your bumps cured the intermittent nature of wind & solar?

 

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Forgive me, I'm a little tired tonight and I'm not completely up to giving a full analysis, right now. However, to get things rolling in the right direction, plus so I can get a better idea of your stance, at least allow me to ask you a couple of questions.

First, with this gas tax, how do you suppose the proceeds would be returned to the tax payer? From there, what is your take on 'Eisenhower-era efficiency standards'? I've done some reading up on Eisenhower, some of it sounds good, but it seems like there is a bit too much government interference that could lead to being more destructive than helpful. As such, I would like to know what's your take on it and what you mean by it.

However, my questions aren't attacks on your stance, merely questions I would've asked within my overall statement. Since I'm about to go to bed and get an early sleep, I wanted to at least ask these questions. From there, we can expand on it and see if we can reach some common ground and some stances we can agree on and both support.

 

First, the gas tax dividend fund would pay out 100% once a year. The idea being that you can use that to suppliment the increase in your gas prices, or make efficiency upgrades such as a newer more fuel efficient vehicle, insulation for your home, solar panels because you live in Arizona or Colorado, and they get 300 days of sun a year. Whatever, the case maybe, it gives the choice to 300 million americans, and the resources to make that choice.

The biggest thing for the Eisenhower era standards for me is, that our facilities that turn coal into electricity, are Eisenhower era. Germany and Japan who are twice as fuel efficient as we are, and both use a power generation facility that is 33-66% more efficient then what we use as it recycles the heat loss from the process.

What I think is really key here, is if you look at Enron, and how they committed fraud, much of it, outside of accounting fraud, was from creating a false lack of energy to create the appearance of increased demand, and the rational for higher pricing.

There is incentive not to be efficient in our electricity delivery in the mini monopolies all across this country. This is the slanted field, and rigged system I believe must be addressed, before we can return to the ideal of non-interventionalism.

 

There should be a fiction forum for posts like #56.