"Cap and Trade" is coming to America.
I've seldom seen such a candid and forthcoming appraisal about how backward energy provision in the USA has been. Full set of statements and video available from Senate "Examining Global Warming Issues in the Power Plant Sector."
Someone should cross-correlate energy policy with the GOP's much touted govenorships, to see which states have been lagging on producing energy efficiency. I was stunned by the amount of savings that appear to be left on the table.
From Darbee:
In California, efficiency is the first resource that we look at to meet our customers' demand [made possible because of 'de-coupling' in California, i.e. not paying energy companies to simply produce more energy - other states have other regulatory ways of trying to get at the same thing, but not all]. In fact, we meet half of our demand through energy efficiency. Over the past 24 years, we have avoided the need to build approximately 30 large power plants ...
In NJ, we're still reeling in various ways from the effects of the GOP's reckless 'energy deregulation' policies ...
