ORIGINAL: MISTRAD

It isn’t that I don’t agree with you oculus.  It is just that I think people should understand the ENORMITY of the problem.

I am all for windmills (though, I just recently saw a new environmental organization formed to stop windmills because apparently they are killing birds; I don’t even know how to comment).  But windmills are not ideal everywhere.  Other sources will be needed.  Some that we like, others (like nuclear) that we don’t like.  But to me, again, we need to meet our goals of energy independence and decrease pollution; at those goals should be met all costs.

The best way to incentivize alternate energy is through accurate pollution taxes and eliminating unreasonable local NIMBY barriers to use of technology via federal laws.  Once the market has accurate information in the form of the price of energy and is unfettered in using the many options currently available, it will be able to provide energy in the most optimal fashion without minimal government fiat.