Plus ca change. In 1977 Governor Jerry Brown proposed and passed a solar energy tax break bill.

[NNadir]

The goal was to make California a solar powered state.

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0102/Greene/Greene.html

Signs of an anti-nuclear, pro-alternative-energy direction to Brown's state energy program have been a main mark of the California governor's administration in recent months. Brown proposed and, in late September 1977, signed a bill that gives that state the country's largest tax incentive-a 55 per cent credit- for home solar installations. California now has a more ambitious solar goal, 1.6 million solar homes by 1985, than Carter has proposed for the whole country, 1.3 million. Brown has also pressed the cause of energy conservation, windmills (200-foot ones along the coast and in the mountains), use of biomass (including wood and woodchip burning), tapping the state's geothermal resources.

I wonder how that's working out?

http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electricity_generation.html

Um, let's see...

Um...

Dangerous natural gas, 122,594 GWh.

Solar: 724 GWh, down from 860 GWh in 2000.

Someone should tell the Governor about the biochemistry and epidemiology of wood smoke as compared to tobacco smoke, but, um, science? We don't need no stinking science.

I wonder if this election is going to lead to the revitalization of California's space program. All that perchlorate outside of Vandenburg has certainly helped keep bacterial contamination down.

[madokie]

1. Best I remember ronald raygun and his goons came aboard

and pretty much stopped everything that did not include oil and gas. The fact we don't have any more solar and wind than we do was a determined decision made by the people who are fleecing us today or their descendants. You can bet on that. It has everything to do with both solar and wind being a smart thing to do too. Not much money to be siphoned off by the likes of tbone pickens and his kind, or peabody coal and its owners. We did not arrive here by chance we were led to be where we are today and we allowed it even though it was against some of our better judgment. Divide and conquer is how they did it then and how its still being done today. I find it odd that you of all people, wouldn't already know that.

[Fledermaus]

2. PUTNEY SWOPE - GUILTY PLEASURE AND FORGOTTEN TREASURE

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obpEz_U6flE&NR=1

[jpak]

3. Remember Rancho Seco!

it sucked!!111