Local community government should expedite the production of electricity by the members of their community to the grid.
So I could build solar collectors on the roof of my house. A no interest loan would be available, local specialists who had been evaluated would be available and once the collector was set up the local government would act to get the best return for me from the grid.
Part of that return would pay for the loan and the other part could be used for tax relief against my property taxes.
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Resilience is at the local level. This is a great idea that should be expanded. The new meme at the bottom is a combination of "home rule" and "buy local" and I believe that over time absentee ownership will prove to over-turnable at the same time that public ownership of common corporations becomes the norm, e.g. the local milk factory, paper mill, etc.
The same week that Cheney was meeting secretly with Enron and Exxon, WIRED Magazine had a *great* cover story on the need for a new two-way electric grid that "gave back" power from local to regional, and it established the price points for all the alternative fuels.
This government is not seriously committed to green and sustainable because it lacks a strategic analytic model and the kind of transparency of true costs that this initiative (this web site) could lead to.
I am hoping that this web site turns into a Pandora's box that the "bipartisan" (aka criminal) parties in Washington cannot shut again.
The energy section is criminallu monopolistic as we saw with Enron and the failed iniatives to make it competitive. We need strong regulations and oversight.
Replace "no interest" with very low interest, and I agree, so I'm voting for it.
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