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The Trib hates solar panels...and wants you to hate them too!

Once more, dear readers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review proves itself no friend of the environment, nor a help in finding solutions to America's coming energy crisis. No, instead, they remain stuck in the past, helplessly, willingly, in thrall to the gas, oil and coal companies that once powered our country but whose time has now come.

The good editors at the Trib decided to take aim at solar power in their editorial "More 'green' folly." The occasion? The shutdown of Evergreen Solar, Inc. in Massachusetts after two years there and $30 million in state subsidies. This serves as an excuse for the attack against green technology that follows.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_719316.html

The editors claim that alternative fuels are a white elephant, the only thing green about them their "insatiable appetite for the public's green." They "remain affixed to the public dime. And that's neither palatable nor sustainable."

Easy for the high priests of the fossil fuel industry to proclaim. $30 million for two years is bad, isn't it? Well, what about the subsidies for gas and oil?

According to a Reuters article from a year ago, discussing the budget for that year, President Obama wanted to eliminate oil and gas subsidies that together over ten years were equal to $36.5 billion dollars. That's billion with a B. Here's the article, lest you doubt;

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6103RM20100201

A little rough math reveals that to be 3.65 billion dollars each year. I don't see the Trib complaining about that, do I? No, it's only alternative fuels that catch their ire, because they have a definite agenda, one that marches in lockstep with ExxonMobile and BP and against our shared environment.

The only folly here is continuing to subsidize big corporations who routinely rake in billions in profit. This from the same people who think any subsidy is creeping socialism.

Oh, and I should mention that Evergreen Solar, Inc. moved and took 800 jobs to China. Perhaps that's because China is serious about alternative energy (they use fossil fuels as well, to be sure, but maintain a high level of green energy in comparison to the rest of the industrialized world) and willing to actually support it?

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  1. Solar panels generate electricity by converting the energy radiated from the sun. The efficiency of these renewable power sources is getting better with the progress of technology and they are getting more common.

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