Renewable distributed power generation and storage, conservation, and plugin hybrids a drain on the economy? Highly doubtfull.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/11/4/111522/920/#comment7
Lovins
I saw Lovins making this point recently also. The boom in renewable energy will not cost economic growth, stability, and oppurtunity..it will expand it.
The monopoly control of energy is like a huge tax built into the world economy. And yet sufficient energy is freely available everywhere on spaceship earth. Why pay that energy tax to multinational corporations. Why fight wars for them?
Go get 'em Bill!