Yeah! 2-4% is the best we can do with both wind and solar, particularly here in So. Cal.
I saw a news story recently that Germany has actually achieved 50% of its energy needs from solar and other alternative energy sources.
But Germany is so different from So. Cal.
For one thing, they're so much closer to the equator! So they have so much more sunlight energy to work with.
And they pay their unionized workers much more than we pay our unionized workers and MUCH MUCH more than we pay our non-unionized workers (so they get workers actually contributing ideas and thinking to products and processes).
And because all their children are actually EDUCATED in public schools, instead of just being warehoused there, INCLUDING the children of all the immigrant workers that come to Germany for good jobs, they have much more intellectual talent to draw on to improve their society.
And because their workers and workers' families all have health care, they don't have people losing work or thinking time waiting in line for medical attention, and they are healthier overall and better able to think about innovative energy development and usage.
But that's alright, as long as our industrial leaders keep raking in profits (which they can park overseas) and our middle class keeps having declining incomes (in real dollars) it's just fine for us to be convinced that 2-4% is the best we can do. That just proves that we are so much 'freer' than those unlucky Germans. (Sigh - when will they ever learn to make a decent car in that country?)
In a message dated 6/9/2012 6:03:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, brad_macaboy1234@yahoo.com writes:
Gas will be back around $2.50 in November, my prediction.
I like the idea of wind and solar, but it can only produce about 2-4% energy of our needs from what I understand. Diesel and longer chain hydrocarbons are the energy source for most large scale transpo. Natural gas is taking a beating, now.
--- On Sat, 6/9/12, BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] They LIED
To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 2:34 PM
It's i9n Venezuela. When I was there in 2003, it was $0.30 per liter
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:23 AM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] They LIED
I see where crude oil has dropped to $84 / barrel , so where the crap is our $2.50 Fuel ? .
When it was $5.00 / barrel , Diesel briefly jumped to $5.00 / gallon in Cali.
Just this morning I saw $3.79 / gallon branded Diesel fuel , Gasoline is still $4.05 .
-Nate
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