The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

“If I only had a brain…”

Above is a snapshot of a new-era scarecrow dancing off to a city filled with a glorious promise of efficiency, all thanks to the new GE-endorsed smart grid that is coming down the pike.

President Obama has said in the past he supports new energy technologies, and quite honestly, I support it too. I just feel it best comes from the private sector, not through forced government mandates. The market will decide, albeit slowly. It will still be a best-for-all solution, and not riddled with the confusion a government mandate often creates. With the Obama administration and democratically led government’s promoting change in the energy infrastucture, the fallacy of false hope is being interwoven into the energy grid as it has been in banking and business over the last year (beginning with Bush’s capitulation of capitalist principles in Stimulus I).

To read the rest, go to The Fallacy of False Hope