…And not only that, it can cost the same in Texas!

Here in L.A., Green Power is available through L.A. DWP. It’s about 6% more, and they send you two compact fluorescent lightbulbs when you sign up! Their green power sources include solar, wind, and geothermal.

The ugly truth about L.A. power is that 50% comes from coal, yes, coal

To ensure a reliable supply of power at consistently low rates, the Department maintains a diversified energy generation mix – including coal (50 percent), natural gas (25 percent), large hydroelectric (11 percent), nuclear (12 percent), and renewable power, such as wind, biomass, solar and cogeneration (2 percent). The Department draws its energy supply from in-basin power plants and several out-of-state facilities in Nevada, Utah and the Pacific Northwest.

Coal burning plants are not permitted in California, so the coal plants are in other states. The power is sent along hundreds of miles on transmission lines where it loses energy along the way. All in all, an incredibly inefficient system, not to mention other states suffering the pollution from coal-burning so L.A. can have power.

Green power eliminates all of that.

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‘Oh my God, what is the world coming to? They’re giving commie hillbillies radio shows.” — Steve Earle

I can’t believe I didn’t know until now that Steve Earle has been doing a radio show on Air America since August….

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez, who has thumbed his nose at the establishment before, let a graffiti artist spray paint his City Hall office walls with the bright orange message: “SMASH THE STATE.”

Gonzalez, who is retiring after one term, ran as a Green and not only got elected to the Board of Supervisors, he got voted President!  But then, in a move I find baffling, he announced he would not seek re-election.

His hand-picked choice to succeed him, Ross Mirkarimi, who also ran as a Green, did indeed get elected in November.

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Former U.S. Rep. Dan Hamburg was jailed after he attempted to deliver a letter about election irregularities to the Ohio secretary of state.

The couple, who live near Ukiah, were released Thursday, said Hamburg, who served one term in Congress as a Democrat and later ran for governor of California as the Green Party candidate.

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Blogads is a great idea which takes a little while to understand.

The Blogad for Polizeros is in the right-hand column and currently has one ad, from Crooks and Liars. (More ads are coming!)

The huge advantage of Blogads over other forms of net advertising is that the webmaster determines who advertises, just like a magazine does. A magazine has to right to reject ads they don’t want. They choose which ads appear, and they don’t want ads that clash with their general theme.. A simple enough concept, but until Blogads was not available for websites like this one.

Google will deliver ads to blogs, or any other site, through their excellent AdSense service. Advertisers are billed when someone clicks on an ad. The problem for a political blog like Polizeros is that Google delivers the ads based on content-matching. They determine what the site is about, then feed the site ads based on that. However just because Polizeros mentions George Bush does not mean I want ads selling Bush t-shirts! Which is precisely what content matching does, as it has no way to filter a preference and only deliver politically appropriate ads.

Kanoodle BrightAds has the same problem. You select categories of ads you want, so it’s not content-matching like AdSense. But their ads go all over the political spectrum too and thus are not focused on what would be of interest here.

Blogads is different.

You can accept or deny an advertiser. Thus the content of the ad will be what you want - not something way off, or even counter to the site’s politics.

You can choose what sites to advertise on (based on their acceptance of course) so your ads only go where you want. You get complete info on mumber of click-throughs per ad.

Ads can be custom-designed for each site!

And best of all, most of the blogs are political and left-leaning.

You may be surprised at the prices the big sites are getting. The top spot on DailyKos goes for $2500 a week, as the Blogads list of sites shows.

To advertise on Polizeros, go here, and create your ad.

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