Hi Steve,



All I'm asking for is that renewable energy gets the same subsidies as fossil fuels or nuclear energy.



***Is that so unreasonable?***



You can measure the subsidy costing by any method you choose using a per unit of energy costing formula -- per barrel of oil equivalent (BOe) or per kW/h, or any other unit of energy formula you want.



America's energy security is far better served by LETTING THE MARKET CHOOSE what is best for the country -- and that can only happen when all energy producers play on a level playing field. (The cream will rise to the top)



America's biggest national security vulnerability (aside from bio-warfare) comes from literally hundreds of thousands of miles of electrical transmission corridors (pylons and power lines) and pipelines that crisscross the continent.



Every Pentagon General officer, all the way down to the rank of Corporal knows that it would be boringly easy for even the most inept enemy of the United States to destroy the American grid with as little as three well-placed air-to-ground missiles, or alternatively, three truck bombs. Those interconnect sites are unbelievably unprotected, and you and I know it.



If that were to happen in mid-winter, millions of Americans would die, and that fact is indisputable.



The fact that it hasn't happened, proves to me that America doesn't have any 'real' enemies, or it would have happened a long time ago. (Yes, the U.S. is 'irritated' at some countries and some countries are 'irritated' at the U.S. -- but by virtue of the fact that *they haven't hit us where we are most vulnerable* proves they aren't real enemies -- only 'irritants')



Conventional grid adherents are living in a previous century -- a central grid WAS the best thing for America in the 20th-century -- but those days are long gone!



Stop helping our enemies by supporting a conventional, national grid that even the U.S. military 3X over, couldn't protect!



Decentralized power is the ONLY choice for an energy-secure America!



I understand that many people have invested heavily in fossil fuels and nuclear power (and I don't blame them, they were safe and secure investments for decades) but such industries now run counter to the national interest -- good investment returns aside!



And yes, the ONLY reason you have those high returns is that those sunset industries are heavily-subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer (oil & gas gets $80 billion per year, nuclear a bit less, but nobody really knows for sure, not even the government, because it's all mashed together with nuclear bomb production and disposal)



Normal citizens can't see this because those white elephants are obscured by mountains of cash!



Energy companies have become like the Big 3 in the 1960's and 1970's, big, powerful, lazy, and wholly unwilling to adapt to changing market conditions.



Remember when 95% of cars registered in the U.S.A. were domestic built and sold? Well, due to the laziness of the Big 3, nowadays only 35% of new car registrations are American makes, and half of the parts in them are made in Asia or Mexico!



You call that progress???



It's killing America!!!



Millions of people unemployed because the 1% wanted higher investment returns! UN-AMERICAN in the extreme!!! (You already 'work' for China's interests, why don't you move there?)



Energy companies and their investors MUST become patriotic by becoming 'fleet of foot' and able to adapt to the changed national security paradigm -- and become 'ENERGY COMPANIES' instead of (only) Oil & Gas or (only) nuclear or (only) coal companies.



When we train U.S. soldiers, we don't try to put a square peg in a round hole -- we choose the people based on their merit.



(The best snipers become our snipers, the best tank captains become out tank captains, and the best fighter pilots don't peel potatoes onboard our warships!)



By the same token, if energy companies were to embrace ALL energy (they don't do that now, because some energy is highly subsidized and some isn't) they can then choose to put a round peg in a round hole, and a square peg in a square hole -- as it should be!



Again, by setting an even subsidy playing field, THE MARKET will choose which energy to use in what location -- and don't worry your precious investment returns will be just as high as they are now.



As for American jobs, solar produces more jobs than all other energy put together -- and rising exponentially!

See chart here: https://jbsnews.com



Summary:



By setting a level subsidy playing field, the energy cream will rise to the top -- and the market will choose which energy peg to put in which energy demand hole -- nothing could be more efficient!



And in that case, renewable energy will win hands down!



National security will become greatly enhanced, as America will no longer be dangling from a thread via the hundreds of thousands of miles of pylons and power lines that will no longer be required (as renewable energy is local energy, while conventional energy must carry electricity many thousands of miles)



Stop arguing against America's national security and stop arguing against a free market (for energy) and stop arguing that you can't make the same or better profits via renewable energy. It's intellectually dishonest.



And for those who want to send me 'green bullets' (we all know what that code-phrase means) be man enough to bring it to my face, mano a' mano.



I'm in Vancouver.



Cheers, JBS