{"word_count": 114, "character_count": 811}
The politics of renewable energy / James Bushnell, Energy Economics Exchange, 26/01/2014http://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/the-politics-of-renewable-energy/I found yesterday’s NY Times article on the shifting politics of renewable energy morbidly fascinating on both a political and economic level. Basically the article pieces together anecdotes of odd-couple political alliances between renewable energy boosters and Republicans, Libertarians (e.g. Barry Goldwater Jr.), or Tea Party stripes. My reaction was that the Times seems to have found a collection of Republicans who want to support renewable energy for all the wrong reasons. Barry Goldwater seems to see renewable energy as a freedom issue and solar panels as sticking it to the man – where the man in this case is the electric utility...