http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040109/utilities_transmission_1.html
I keep thinking that someday even the presently-in-place governmental executives and legislators and administrators must *mention* the issue of improving net metering nationwide, as an important step in improving national energy policy, reducing US dependence on imports, improving homeowners' ability to provide for themselves, improving car owners' ability to generate energy for their own use, etc. But while FERC and other governmental bodies seem willing to go to the mat about all manner of relatively obscure issues, (see the enclosed story, just as an example), I don't hear or see much (any?) mention of net metering. Then, here or there, I meet this or that person still struggling with their local utility. If I'm not mistaken we even had a recent contribution from South Carolina that mentioned a utility's response that nobody had installed solar in their area and there wasn't much hope for arriving at a reasonable net metering agreement (I'll have to go back and look). So, for my money, we continue to have areas which demark major deficiencies in US federal and State policies, whose hallmark is in part the total blackout on mentioning them that comes from government officials. My view has been that it is these unmentioned areas are some of the most important battle areas, that the lack of mention of them is a conscious and deliberate attempt to keep them obscure and unfixed for as long as possible, and that run-of-the-mill internet criticism of US government is misguided when it focuses on only those areas that are already mentioned and dealt with in typical daily news and policy. It is the un-mentioned and undealt-with that I think are equally as important and in need of intelligent constructive criticism, if not more important. MM Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
