An Energy Proposal.

Alternatives are good.   I do not like Nuk a lar because it is too controversial.  People are never going to accept nuk a lar and so it really needs to be tabled by both parites.  For once I agree with my energy opponents on this issue.  Any money being funneled into nuk a lar by the energy department needs to stop and be sent elsewhere.

In America there are about 5 million rural farms and ranches and people just living outside of town on 2-50 acres of land.  Especially in the midwest and west.  The government should adopt massive incentives for these people to build a wind turbine on their property in addition to installing solar panels.  The cost is about $44,000 dollars to do such.  These could ALL be tied into the grids all over the country.

If the cost to the consumer is 44k then the government could pay for this up front with a fund set up that would take probably 10 years to complete.  The grids that receive the additional power would then pay larger taxes based upon the estimated cost savings to the power company by the amount of electricity generated and put back into the grid.  This money would go back into the Government coffers to continue to fund further expansion of the grid until the point was reached in which no more Solar or Wind turbines were needed.

The US governement spending 4-6 billion per year on building these would be inconsequential.  And would spawn a new Green industry.  Manufacture, sales and Service of these components.  The private sector does the work with initial funding by the US government.  Problem solved.

The reality is that I believe McCain will be handed the largest loss in US history unless his party returns to their senses, adopts a fiscally responsible platform, that is deadly serious about balancing the budget once and for all and paying down the debt.   They must realize that the Reaganomics of trickle down does not work if the economy is not expanding and its hard to expand the economy without allowing a massive influx of immigrants into this nation.

So they need to get their priorities right.  Raise taxes moderately, cut the military. Funding cuts accross the board and a national sales tax used exclusively to pay down the debt.  Yes its going to be hard.  This is the perfect time to do it.  By doing this it will actually shrink the economy for a couple years while the Automakers can get hybrids and Electric vehicles to market.  By taxing and shrinking the economy the prices of oil will come down as will the price at the pump.

The ball is in the court of the GOP because the Democrats only want their turn to spend and spend and spend.  They want to expand the government, add new programs, increase spending and then blame the gop for ever increasing Budget deficits.  In addition now they want to fight a war in Afghanistan by escalating and raising the costs and the stakes there.

Obama wants to tax the rich but give it back to the poor.  Nothing gained other then now we get to penalize the rich too.  Don’t people realize that the people most affected by oil prices are the poor……not the rich.  I can pay 12 dollars a gallon for gasoline.  I dont want to but I can.  I have the money to do so.  However 85 percent of the people in this country cant even pay 4-5 dollars by evidence of a recession due to gas prices.

The GOP has the ball.  They just dont realize that they have the ball.