a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:3088:"I was wondering recently how the government could best waste my money. There are lots of ways. The War on Poverty, the lost, costliest, most ineffective war in history - that is a good waste of money. Perhaps funding <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/Reid_Save_federal_funding_for_the_cowboy_poets.html">cowboy poetry </a>- who doesn't love a good poem&hellip; with cowboys. But for my money, a great way is pointless investing is green energy. Like the booming solar energy construction in the Southwest. Oh, <a href="http://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/jan/16/solar-powers-future-not-bright-after-initial-build/">wait a minute</a>:<br />
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<div>Five years after the Obama administration&rsquo;s renewable energy initiative touched off a building boom of large-scale solar power plants across the desert Southwest, the pace of development has slowed to a crawl, with a number of companies going out of business and major projects canceled for lack of financing.<br />
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Of the 365 federal solar applications since 2009, just 20 plants are on track to be built. Only three large-scale solar facilities have gone online, two in California and one in Nevada. The first auction of public land for solar developers, an event once highly anticipated by federal planners, failed to draw a single bid last fall.</div>
</blockquote>Yes, not a single bid for land for the 21st century equivalent of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Act_of_1862">Homestead Act</a>. Because in Obama's America, why give to people who could improve the land and their lives when you could make a vapid political statement to appeal to environmental fascists and useful idiots while rewarding big donors? It's the perfect Democrat policy. If somehow they could work racial division / amnesty into the picture, it would be ideal.<br />
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But the big investors of green energy aren't stupid. They see that the profits in this industry are illusionary, propped up only by tax dollars:<br />
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<div>&ldquo;Nobody&rsquo;s going to break ground on any big new solar projects right now &mdash; utilities want to see how farms coming online this year fit into the grid, and developers are waiting for more certainty about state policies and federal tax credits.&rdquo;</div>
</blockquote>I like the honesty. The developers aren't going to break ground unless they have guaranteed funds from the moneys forcibly removed from the pockets of millions of taxpayers. This is big business these days. &quot;I would invest my own money,&quot; your typical green energy developer would say, &quot;but if I can NOT use my own money, and take donations from politicians trying to curry favor with clueless left-wing voters, I think I'll do that instead.&quot;<br />
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I have no doubt that eventually, government will get its way and force the development of solar panel farms despite what common sense dictates, but this is a good example of how little the demand for this apparent &quot;energy of the future&quot; actually is.<br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}