FPL, And Money For Green Energy

Look, from the outset, the whole of the "green push" has been marketing with no substance. Most of the crap being shovelled has been shovelled before, think Jimmy Carter and his disastrous Presidency, and the needed breakthroughs in terms of science and engineering have not happened. I bought my first miracle solar system in 1979, it didn't work, because the energy supplied never recovered the cost to build it. If I hadn't had a government grant for the whole cost, I would have never bought. Given that it was "free" to me at least, it did what it said it would, heated my hot tube and hot water heater. We lived in a "bright sunshine" cold area at the time, great for solar. But it sure wasn't the way to energy independence that Pres Carter said it would be. The program was terminated shortly after I bought in.

So now we are into the heavy marketing of "green" as big a scam as the global warming hoax itself. Business es see it as a 'selling point' to be green. Grocery stores 'going green' -- Does anyone stop and think what does that actually mean? Nothing, simply nothing. It's just marketing phrase-ology. Yes I actually asked at the local super, what does 'going green' mean? Paper or plastic was the best answer, and they were trying to cut energy costs, because they cut into the bottom line so badly under Democrat rule.

So who is surprised that FPL, my electric supplier, is using the 'green money' to tell people they are going green. Sort of like a loop if you ask me, you talk into one end and the answer, what you want to hear, comes out the other end. All smoke, no substance. You really didn't think a few bucks was actually going to do anything when power stations now cost billions?

Report: FPL green energy program misleading - Forbes.com

Nearly 39,000 Florida Power & Light customers gave the company $11.4 million over four years to develop green energy, but a report shows most of the money went toward administrative and marketing costs.

According to a 19-page report written by the staff of Florida's Public Service Commission, FPL's Sunshine Energy Program suffers from several problems and "does not currently serve the interest of the program's participants."

The voluntary program charges FPL customers $9.75 per month - on top of the regular energy bill - to help develop alternative power sources. Nearly 39,000 FPL customers participate in it.

According to FPL's web site, for every 10,000 subscribers, the company will develop 150 kilowatts of solar energy in Florida and buy 1,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy credits.

Public Service Commission staff said only 24 percent of the $11.4 million collected from customers went toward developing renewable energy. The rest went to marketing and administrative costs.

Get your energy credits right here, I have a book of renewable energy coupons that I sell for a few dollars a piece, no guarantee I will do anything, except spend the money telling you I spent your money.

Sheesh, how dumb are people.