Koch Brothers Going After Solar Energy Customers

[whell]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Manifest Destiny huh?

AKA "White Man's Burden".

You feeling burdened whell?

Nope, not me. Go Columbia Go!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

It is, yes. And they attempt to pass themselves off as an objective source of news, while using hot button words like "attack" in their news headlines.

And you guys complain about Fox News....

Nice bit of false equivalence and you're still ducking Mike.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by whell

That's right Pio. See, you can't point out the "value" of government spending spear-heading the westward expansion of the railway system and leave out the key element of why government policy saw fit to fund the expansion.

Hand-in-glove with the railroads, there was personal economic incentive in WDC as well.

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[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Nice bit of false equivalence and you're still ducking Mike.

What am I "ducking" Bob? I've posted several times already in this thread about the business case the utilities are point to regarding the need for the fee and also about stupidity of the related issue of mandated renewable energy goals. So, sorry if you've missed those earlier posts, but that's not my issue.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

That's right Pio. See, you can't point out the "value" of government spending spear-heading the westward expansion of the railway system and leave out the key element of why government policy saw fit to fund the expansion.

We were supposed to expand west without any governmental involvement? How in the heck do you accomplish that, when much of these territories are controlled by other governments?

As I understand it, the slave-owning states (Now Republican strongholds, BTW.) supported westward expansion with the intent to create more slave owning states. The industrial states saw the opportunity to expand railroads to establish western ports for commerce with the Far East. Not to mention the vast natural resources to the west such as lumber and mining.

[4-2-7]

I hope the solar industry explodes in this country and the world. It would be so so good for my bottom line.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by whell

See, you can't point out the "value" of government spending spear-heading the westward expansion of the railway system and leave out the key element of why government policy saw fit to fund the expansion.

Never said it was valuable.

Just used it as one of many, many examples throughout history where the government has subsidized the development of industries in order the show the absurdity of this assertion by your buddy bhunter:

Originally Posted by bhunter

If solar is so great, then it ought stand on its own.

[merrylander]

Guys you are shouting up a dead horse's arse, save your breath whell is always right - in his own mind.