Are you Green?, HA! Options

[naro914]

HA, I have to share this....

I was in the back of my building doing a few tweaks to my race car Papa Smurf. Running it up and down, etc. (2.2 high compression 6 cyl engine, headers to megaphones...) Then I went over to the 69 911 and had to change the piece of cardboard underneath because it's soaked in oil (next project). I was on the phone with another guy regarding my street 914 "Huey" and the fact that it's running very rich and needs some carb adjustments....

So I come back to my computer and get a spam email asking "Are you Green? How is your Carbon Footprint?"

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Uh....kind of like Bigfoot's....

[byndbad914]

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yeah, this stuff gets me a bit fired up because it is so much blind leading the blind. There is a not-so-simple but easily defined path to being truly green within the next 30-50yrs but shitheads like Al Gore and that under-educated Leo DiCaprio have everyone believing we have to do it in 10yrs... so everyone works into a frenzy and runs out and buys into shitbox hybrids that get maybe 40mpg if you just drive 'em v. hyper-mileage pussy footing (I do have to get to work at some point in the AM) and are killing the environment with the batt production - out of sight, out of mind irrationality.

I was just pricing a solar roof yet again last weekend since I heard legislation was passed to increase the amount that can be written off out of fed income taxes this year - used to cap at $2K, which was stupid, so that has been lifted - a good thing the Obama admin has done IMHO so that is 1 for him (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Even with what I figured would be close to a $10K income tax write-off I am still somewhere in the 15yr break-even on cost (~$10K out of pocket for a roof that provides about half my summer useage, double for a complete system, no backup batts, still locked into grid for night juice) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) I am pretty juice friendly and even with the air on last summer my peak cost for elect was ~$120 in August, and last year we set records for consecutive days above 90deg that month.

so if I get ALL my juice from solar somehow, and was ALWAYS at peak which is not true, $20K/$120 = 167 months break-even (or 14yrs!!!). So it is clear that our gov't has no real desire to promote truly green ideas... only what appears green to get elected/re-elected.

If the gov't really meant biz it would stop taking our tax dollars and giving it to people to loan to us or sell back to us essentially (how is paying interest on my tax dollars helping me again??) and instead make solar roofing a 5-7yr break-even to match the current expectancy for occupancy...

I would rather the $1 trillion they were printing were simply divided evenly among ALL tax paying adults and they just sent us all a check for ~$7K... and that assumes HALF the US population is tax-paying adults BTW... and see how stoked the economy gets when the have-nots finally have for once. Ford/GM/Chrysler couldn't keep up with the demand for new cars if working families got $14K. I would buy a solar roof tomorrow if 75% of the cost were covered that way.

Silly taxpayers, Trix are for government!