Make a grant available to cover UP to 50% of the cost to instal solar panels on businesses or individuals homes. It would be fairly simple, but require panels to be made in the USA, and possibly only cover cost of panels themselves to limit price fluffing on instillation costs.
Grant for Businesses and Individuals to help with cost of installing solar panels
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Instead, Build nuclear plants and open up known areas for extraction of oil (ANWAR, Offshore and etc.) Drill, baby, drill....
I'm with hairlip. Go nuclear and drill.
The solar panels wouldn't even be viable with 50% subsidized.
We don't need any more federal programs!
I assume the comment to drill is sarcastic. Nuclear requires even more subsides then solar does, and requires long term financial commitment in storage and protection of the waste, even if it is all in one Mt. Also there is high cost in building. Read this for some info: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html Also look into other amounts the govt. has budgeted to take care of the waste.
Drilling would not help much ether, especially for the long run. Best estimates say it would give us 5-7 years more oil. Not a long term solution. Not to mention damage to the land or environment.
Regarding the federal programs comment, the government is all ready paying for to many things that are dead ends, like AIG. It needs to invest in the future with things like this. Germany did this, and made the money back in revenue from all the new business that was created.
Building Nuclear power plants and drilling for energy resources in the U.S. puts people to work and spurs local economies. Immediate long term jobs are created and this benefits local communities faster that the “shovel ready “ projects starting in late 2010.
DRILL DRILL DRILL!