California will pay dearly for overpriced renewable energy

A utility watchdog in California confirms what I’ve been saying. California’s manic push for renewables will cost consumers huge amounts of money. Yes, I favor renewable energy. But this is crony capitalism. Deep pocket investors (including Google) are building huge solar and wind projects and the California public will be forced by the new laws [...]

Disturbing trend in big solar, mindless cheerleading

Renewable Energy World jumps the shark, saying the more big solar the better because the US likes doing things on a big scale and it will mean big profits for big developers. Wowie zowie, I mean what could go wrong with that? As for any possible problems with, say, carpeting the Mojave desert with [...]

Foreclosures, banksters, and our crony capitalism

The US no longer has capitalism in any sense of genuinely free markets. Instead, we have the Fed propping up thuggish banking entities who never seem to have criminal charges files against them and who just receive modest civil penalties for doing things the rest of us would be arrested for.

JP Morgan Chase [...]