http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/3/102831/613#11
Mass delusional media
It spreads the conventional wisdom.
Here's the argument:
Renewable power is not in widespread use.
If it were technologically/economically feasible it would be in widespread use, since it would cure so many of our problems. And yeild huge profits for the companies that build out and use it.
Therefore:
Renewable power must not be technologically/economically feasible. It must need more research.
The facts:
Renewable energy and conservation are cheaper and quicker to build out than any other alternative. They are ready now.
Monopoly corporate/government power working in concert with mass delusional media are blocking implementation and the resulting economic boom and end to war over oil and nuclear proliferation that would result.
It's exactly that simple. Vested interests support the status quo for their own benefit over the obvious benefits of change to the rest of uS and the living planet.
Hillary's plan
Divert subsidies from the status quo corporate sectors (big oil, coal, nuclear) and devote that capital to building out renewable power and conservation.
The problem will be getting the bribe swilling congress to turn on their corporate hog-trough fillers. As with health care reform in '93, when democrats were in control of congress, enough bribed democrats will be found to join with the bribed pubs to block any real change in the direction of subsidies.
These hogs must be told at the local level, if you return to try and get re-elected and keep voting the corporatist line, you will be given the boot. Enough green troops exist to do that at the local grassroots political level. To take over local parties. But environmentalists will not lower themselves to the task.
They would rather stay home and simply donate to orgs with glossy magazines they can put on their coffee tables to garner status with their crowd. Orgs like NRDC, that oppose wind power, back fuel farming, clean coal, and nuclear. Orgs that sell out to corporate power at every turn.
A congressman who is deluged at a local fundraiser with calls to back renewables by diverting subsidies from the corporatist cabal, can go to his corporate lobbyist loving staff and say, "Look I can't go against the voters or I won't be here next year." No amount of campaign "contributions" (bribes) from the corporatsis will change that.